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Corporate Perspective: How going ‘local-for-local’ helps Groupe SEB Turkey hedge against trade warsMustafa Kilic, CFO at Groupe SEB, Turkey sat down with TXF’s Katharine Morton in Istanbul and talked about how a strategy of maximising local inputs can help manage currency risk through natural hedges, and even help guard against the burgeoning trade wars.READ MORE -
Trade wars: Is the answer blowing in the wind?TXF's head of trade, treasury and risk Katharine Morton mulls the implications of the accelerating trade wars on the fundamentals of relationships between global powers.READ MORE -
Don’t hobble the LC: A treasurer’s lamentThe LC remains a great tool for international trade, one international treasurer tells TXF, as long as it’s not hobbled by the banks. And unless some things change – it doesn’t augur well for digitisationREAD MORE -
TXF Global talk: ECGC on educating SMEsTXF caught up with Geetha Muralidahar, chairman and managing director at ECGG, to discuss how ECGC are supporting SMEs and what educational processes need to take place to provide Indian exporters with better access to short-term trade finance.READ MORE -
S&W Breakfast briefing: The importance of SPVs in trade financeIn the latest edition of law firm Sullivan & Worcester’s Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar, partner Geoffrey Wynne and senior associate Sam Fowler-Holmes discuss SPVs and their role in structured trade finance transactions.READ MORE
Private wealth: Bridging the infrastructure and trade gaps?
On paper the demand should be there – a mix of low default short tenor and long tenor assets make trade and infrastructure a logical mix for private wealth investors. But both markets still present significant problems to entry for non-institutional investors, even via sector specific fund managers.
