London Trade Roundtable to host Trade, Tech and Transition virtual meeting

By Jonathan Bell

London Trade Roundtable is hosting a virtual event entitled: ‘Trade, Tech and Transition in a Covid/Post-Covid World’ on Wednesday 18 November, 2020 at 15.00 UK time. The event is free to all participants.

A number of industry experts will be sharing their experiences of managing risk and reputation, and the various new technologies which are flourishing in a market place which has seen major disruption from the global pandemic requiring more sophisticated tools to protect buyers and sellers.

Speakers include:

Stephan Jansma - global head of structured and trade finance, Trafigura

Kris van Broekhoven - CFO of Komgo

Peter Hopkins - managing director, Drum Risk

Steven Wicks - head of risk, Concord Resources

Chris Hall - senior underwriter, Liberty Specialty Markets

Those interested in joining should contact the LTR secretary, Neil McGugan ltrsecretary5@gmail.com (Tel: +44 20 7642 5012 Mob: +44 7712 646249 ) who will register you and send the login details for the Zoom meeting.

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