Dylan Martin, CEO of Teybridge Capital Europe will be speaking as a part of our Originator Panel at Trade Finance Investor Day.   In our two-day event just outside London, we’ll reveal the latest fintech innovations, banking-fintech partnerships and the rise of trade finance as an investable asset class.   Don't miss this five-star experience at The Grove Golf and Country Club, Hertfordshire on the 19th and 20th October 2023. Register for your ticket...

Chris Southworth, Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom, has been speaking to us about the Electronic Trade Documents Act (ETDA) ahead of his appearance at our Trade Finance Investor Day. Chris is a leading international expert on creating modern digital trade ecosystems, and is also an independent adviser to the UK government on the digitisation of trade.  Over the last few years he’s been heavily involved with getting ETDA passed into law. Last month that finally happened and it’s now...

Teybridge Capital is the TFDi’s 70th member. Dylan Martin, its European CEO, speaks to us about how the company differentiates itself in the global trade space. Teybridge Capital is a non-bank originator specialising in supply chain finance as well as structured trade and commodity finance, amongst other services. Dylan is also one of the many names to be speaking at our Trade Finance Investor Day. He’s on our Originator Panel at the event at the Grove golf and country club, just outside...

Salman Khan, a Senior Portfolio manager at Santander Alternative Investments, tells us why this asset class is so important.  Salman specialises in Global Trade Finance investments and is one of the many names to be speaking at the Trade Finance Investor Day.  He will be appearing on the Investor Panel at the conference in Hertfordshire to discuss ‘The Perfect Deal’. Speaking to us from Madrid, he says the event will be an unmissable networking opportunity.  Tickets are now on sale for...

André Casterman, the CEO of the TFDi, highlights what makes October’s Trade Finance Investor Day ‘the event with a difference’. André says the two-day conference, at The Grove Golf and Country Club, will bring ‘new players onto the stage’.  There will be two major panels, a keynote, Power Pitch sessions, testimonials, and of course the opportunity for networking at the five-star resort in Hertfordshire on October 19th and 20th. Don’t miss out, register for your ticket now:...

Episode 27 is an exciting conversation with Kountable's Founder and CEO, Chris Hale. In this episode we discuss how Kountable enables SME's to deliver sustainable development and the areas they are focusing on as a business within the sector.

Episode 26 is a solidly-packed chat with ANZ's Head of Trade and Supply Chain Product Solutions and Head of Trade Portfolio Management, Damian Kwok, as he talks about the dire need for liquidity in the market, ANZ's form of digitalisation through a DLT and their DNA as a trade finance bank.

Episode 25 of the TFD Initiative Podcast features the founder and CEO of vabble.io Pablo Terpolilli discussing Vabble's automation and legalisation of manual supply chain finance processes to offer better conditions for liquidity to flow.

TFD Initiative is delighted to speak with the CEO of ARC Ratings, Oliver Howard. Our conversation revolves around working with clients in trade finance and the nuanced processes of their ratings methodologies.

Episode 23 is a special feature from a Member of the House of Lords, Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond, who is a fierce advocate for digital technologies, fintechs and blockchain. We hear about his passion for sustainable trade finance methods like the ETD and a more inclusive finance market. 

We're kicking off 2023 with a brand new podcast from Surecomp's SVP Strategy, Digitisation and Business Development, Enno-Burghard Weitzel, as we delve into Surecomp's new business solution RIVO and why client needs form a core part of designing their technology. 

Our last podcast for 2022 features TFD Initiative's Chief executive André Casterman as he sits down with Doris Kononowicz to discuss how this year has seen a grown to the TFDi community, and some key milestones that were achieved.

TFDi Podcast episode 20 features the Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law at the Law Commission of England and Wales, Sarah Green, who shares first hand insight into how and why a bill such as the ETD was born, and the journey through the great thinking that constitutes what new digital asset laws should look like.

Episode 19 features CEO and Founder of SupplierPlus, Kaspar Kagu, as he sits down with Doris Kononowicz to discuss supply chain finance processes and the geographical edge SupplierPlus has, being a technology-enabled solution.

On this episode, we host TFDi founding member, co-founder and CFO at Tradeteq, Nils Behling, as we discuss the new TRADA Token on the XDC Network and how banks and FIs can connect, access and distribute illiquid assets through Tradeteq's innovative technology solution.

On this episode, our guest is Mark Hickey, Head of Working Capital Finance at Pemberton. We delve into the evolution of bank markets, technology and Pemberton’s growing portfolio in corporate credit. 

On this episode, our guest is George Nijborg, Senior Portfolio Manager at Aegon Asset Management. We discuss the use of trade finance in offering  products with attractive risk return profile.

In this episode, our guest is Mark Abrams, MD & Head of Trade and Receivables Finance at Trade Finance Global. We discuss TFG's position in the trade finance industry.

In this episode, our guest is John-Martin Ndawula, Associate VP, Financial Institutions and Trade Finance at Africa Finance Corporation. He dissects the role of AFC in providing instrumental infrastructure through trade finance distribution in Africa.

The TFDi Podcast resumes with guest Martin Opfermann, Lead Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors. He shares market trends and new ways to distribute finance. 

For the first episode of the new year, Boris Jaquet, Global Head of Distribution at Deutsche Bank, looks back at the past 12 months of trade finance distribution and shares his insights on recent trends.

In this episode, Adam Clark, Underwriter at Liberty Specialty Markets, tells us what digitisation can bring to trade finance distribution and trade finance in general.

In this episode, Morgan Terigi, CEO and co-founder of Incomlend and Swajit Rath, CEO of Incomlend Capital, tell us about the company's ambitious plans to make trade assets tradable. 

In this episode we receive Ian Duffy, CEO and Founder of Accelerated Payments, a Dublin-based fintech that finances invoices for SMEs in Ireland, the UK, the US and Canada. Accelerated Payments just recently financed the purchase of a client invoice using a tokenised trade finance instrument on the Tradeteq network, and Ian is here today to tell us how it went, and what advantages token-based funding can bring to smaller originators.

In this episode we receive Atul Khekade, Co-Founder of XinFin Hybrid Blockchain. XinFin Network is a hybrid blockchain platform that recently teamed up with Tradeteq to tokenise portfolios of trade assets. Atul tells us how exactly tokenisation works and why this is such a positive development for trade finance distribution.