Keynote: ADB’s Beck on supercharging trade finance as a crisis response vehicle

Region:

Asia-Pacific

Katharine Morton

Head of Export, Project and Development Finance

Steven Beck, head of trade and supply chain finance at ADB talks to TXF from lockdown Manila about how ADB is supercharging its existing trade finance programs to keep trade flowing amid Covid-19 and how both the digitisation and sustainability agenda will be maximised.

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