Today’s Exile is Veronika Koroleva, Partner at gunnercooke. Veronika’s Exile celebrates the importance of mentorship and resilience, as well as embracing alternative working models to deal with problems that aren’t quite as unprecedented as we give them credit for.

The mood music at the 11th edition of the TXF Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event was downbeat. Spawned by amplifying tariff concerns, limited debt appetite from corporates and the impact of Basel IV on lenders, there was a multitude of macroeconomic and geopolitical factors setting the sombre tone.

Germany’s Euler Hermes has had to change its business mix in reaction to political shifts. Mirroring its shift in geographies and financing structure is a change in the types of lenders that support its deals.