Risky business: Tech-tonic shifts in trade wars

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Middle East & Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe

Katharine Morton

Head of Export, Project and Development Finance

In the first of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about where we are now with trade weaponization and the effect that trade wars are having on the key power relationships and physical supply chains globally, with technology at the forefront.

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