TXF Export Finance Podcast

Keynote: ADB’s Beck on supercharging trade finance as a crisis response vehicle

Steven Beck, head of trade and supply chain finance at ADB talks to TXF from lockdown Manila about how ADB is supercharging its existing trade finance programs to keep trade flowing amid Covid-19 and how both the digitisation and sustainability agenda will be maximised. 

 

Keynote: Pedal still to the metal on sustainability for France’s MoF

Gabriel Cumenge, deputy secretary of the French Ministry of Finance, DG Tresor tells TXF the importance of ECAs continuing their roles as the shock absorbers of global trade and driving the sustainability agenda through the current crisis.

Podcast: BPL Global on the impact of Covid-19 on CPRI

TXF spoke with James Esdaile, managing director at BPL Global, to discuss the significant exposure private insurers have to short-term trade credit and supply chain finance risk amid the Covid-19 crisis, as ECAs re-enter the private market as concerns grow over the sector being under strain. Will the pandemic change the dynamic of the CPRI market? And how will the private sector look in the wake of coronavirus?

On financial triage: In viro veritas 3

TXF’s ‘in viro veritas’ series looks at the effects of the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic on trade and export finance. The first in the series was an early stage call to action, the second showed ECAs picking up their activities and this, the third, looks at more a coordinated response from institutions.

ECAs characters in action: In viro veritas 2

There’s been a lot of activity behind the scenes at ECAs amid the abrupt systemic shock of coronavirus. Some have been faster, and some more transparent communicators, than others. Is it a judge of character? TXF looks at the degrees of action in the market and applauds those taking steps to help SMEs and smaller businesses. After all, it’s the sector many profess to want to support in times of need, and now is a great opportunity.

Coronavirus and global trade: In viro veritas?

In the first episode of TXF's "In viro veritas?" series, Katharine Morton says the new coronavirus, Covid-19, is shining a light on just how connected global trade is to the world’s second largest economy. TXF takes a look at how China will officially support its trade and we ask whether global ECAs need to be taking note. ‘Think Global, Act Local’ may be apt for world trade and the response to the disease.

Shop talk: Entrepose on upping ECA tap

Gautier Mangenot, VP of business development at Entrepose Group, a subsidiary of Vinci, talks to TXF about the challenges of facilitating energy infrastructure throughout the value change, and the growing role of ECA support in southeast Asia.

TXF podcast: Talking sustainability in ECA finance

At TXF Asia 2019, Dominik Kloiber, co-founder of TXF spoke with Paul Richards, global head of export finance at ANZ, Isabel Galdiz, vice president of international relations at US Exim, and Vineyesh Sawhney, senior vice president of Reliance Industries to discuss the seminal but growing trend of sustainability in ECA finance.