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03 September 2018

Turkey leverages the power of now in trade

Turkish banks and corporates have a good reputation for using technology to improve trade process and efficiency. In a discussion hosted by BNY Mellon in Istanbul in...

23 August 2018

Trade funds: Understand your risk buckets better

Getting banks, regulators and investors to understand trade funds better is key to trade evolving as an investible asset class. Aidan Applegarth, owner and managing...

20 August 2018

Nourishing green shoots in Greek trade

The four systemically important banks in Greece met with TXF at a roundtable hosted by BNY Mellon in Athens and discussed the future of Greek exports. How are the banks...

27 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Manufacturing & equipment, Oil & gas, Power

Soy it goes!

It would be good to escape from major economic trade factors that are influencing our lives – if only for a while, and for some in the Northern Hemisphere that obviously...

19 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

US-China get electric on the auto front

Jonathan Bell, Editor-in-Chief at TXF gives us his take on news that Tesla is to build an EV Gigafactory in Shanghai, as well as a review of TXF's market coverage from...

18 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Transport

Corporate perspective: Piecing together the digital future at Mosaic

When will Michael Crawford, senior corporate treasury manager of Mosaic, the world’s largest phosphate producer, become a robot? Not for the foreseeable future. TXF’s...

16 July 2018

Corporate perspective: Going ‘local-for-local’ helps Groupe SEB Turkey hedge against trade wars

Mustafa Kilic, CFO at Groupe SEB Turkey explains how a strategy of maximising local inputs can help manage currency risk through natural hedges, and even help guard...

12 July 2018

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.

09 July 2018

Don’t hobble the LC: A treasurer’s lament

The 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...

01 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Trade wars: Potential impacts and implications

Since US President Donald Trump’s protectionist push has sparked the promise of reciprocal retaliation from the EU, China, and Canada, TXF's Katharine Morton, head of...

27 June 2018

Corporate perspective: Chipita – treasury and trade in metamorphosis

Marianna Polykrati is group treasurer of Chipita SA, which is a Greek multinational snacks provider headquartered in the aptly named town of Metamorphosis, north of...

20 June 2018

Sunny with the chance of showers? Insuring the future of commodity trade

The commodity trading landscape is changing, as are the needs to insure risk by both commodity traders and producers. Katharine Morton spoke to brokers, insurers and the...

11 June 2018

Why trade finance is soaring at ADB

Trade finance business is booming at the Asian Development Bank. Katharine Morton spoke to Steven Beck, the ADB’s head of trade and supply chain finance, at the ICC...

31 May 2018

Beyond the wild west in factoring

Peter Mulroy, Secretary General of FCI spoke to Katharine Morton at the ICC banking commission annual meeting in Miami about how trust is helping factoring move beyond...

23 May 2018

Trade risk: Two measures in one

TXF’s Katharine Morton caught up with Daniel Schmand, chair of the ICC Banking Commission and global head of trade finance at Deutsche Bank, at the ICC Annual Meeting in...

18 May 2018

Beyond the wild west in factoring (24 mins)

Peter Mulroy, Secretary General of FCI spoke to Katharine Morton at the ICC banking commission annual meeting in Miami about how trust is helping factoring move beyond...

16 May 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Financing international trade: FIT for purpose?

A call for action. How to get FIT for trade, treasury and risk (without any physical exercise)

09 May 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

The dog that didn’t bark: Is derisking over?

The hush that has fallen over the banking markets about derisking correspondent banking relations could be read as meaning derisking is the dog that didn’t bark. Is...

08 May 2018

ICC’s Schmand: Focus on non-financial risk measurement before saying trade finance is low risk (12 mins)

Daniel Schmand, chair of the ICC Banking Commission and global head of trade finance at Deutsche Bank caught up with TXF’s Katharine Morton at the ICC Annual Meeting in...

01 May 2018

Crown Agents: Trad knit with new patterns giving challengers the needle

Albert Maasland, CEO of Crown Agents Bank, explains what it takes to be a challenger bank that is 200 years old, and how the lender will still be “sticking to its...