TXF Risky Business Podcast Podcast

2021: A new dawn for the climate economy - Episode 2 from 2021-12-06T16:19:07

Tom Dunn (Orbian) and Peter McKillop (Climate & Capital Media) return to the TXF Risky Business Podcast for the second episode of our series focused on the climate economy. In this episode T...

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Celebrating 100 years of BAFT from 2021-07-21T12:43:31

TXF spoke with BAFT' Steve Bash about celebrating 100 years of leadership in finance and trade.

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CGI on trade digitisation: Acceleration and interoperability on track from 2021-06-14T17:32:12

In the run-up to TXF’s Global Trade Virtual 2021 on 23-24 June, Patrick DeVilbiss, Offering Manager at CGI talks to TXF about how accelerated trade digitisation amid the pandemic should be long ...

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2021: A new dawn for the climate economy - Episode1 from 2021-04-01T15:10:15

Orbian Chairman, Tom Dunn, returns to the TXF Risky Business Podcast airwaves with the first instalment of a brand new series for 2021. In this opening episode, Tom sits down with Peter McKillop...

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2021: A new dawn for the climate economy - Episode1 from 2021-04-01T15:10:15

Orbian Chairman, Tom Dunn, returns to the TXF Risky Business Podcast airwaves with the first instalment of a brand new series for 2021. In this opening episode, Tom sits down with Peter McKillop...

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Impact assessment: Covid-19 and cities from 2020-06-19T12:18:37

In the fourth of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Felix de Grey, a writer and urbanism specialist, to discuss how cities globa...

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Impact assessment: Covid-19 and the world of sport from 2020-06-03T22:29:23

In the third of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Gordon D’Arcy, a retired Irish rugby player, to discuss how the wo...

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Impact assessment: Covid-19 and the natural world from 2020-05-21T12:25:17

In the third of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Huw Cordey, acclaimed natural history film producer, to find out how the natu...

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Impact assessment: Covid-19 and the global development agenda from 2020-05-06T10:18:49

In the second of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Judith Tyson, a fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. How will emerg...

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Are the wheels of supply chain finance still turning? In viro veritas 4 from 2020-04-22T14:53:50

Supply chain finance can be a great tool for keeping funding flowing to all parts of the supply chain, but is there an existential strain on programmes from the dislocations of physical supply c...

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Impact assessment: Investigating Leadership and Covid-19 from 2020-04-21T17:51:42

In the first of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University. How import...

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Shop talk: Ashurst keeps cool amid spike in corporate debt restructuring from 2020-03-17T13:05:05

During a volatile month for global trade and the commodities market amid the coronavirus pandemic, TXF spoke to Jean Woo, partner at Ashurst in Singapore, to discuss how the law firm is staying ...

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TXF PRI 2019: Fonroche sheds some light on off-grid solar from 2020-01-16T16:56

Following his panel at the PRI conference in December, TXF sat down with Pierre Vergnes, head of institutional financing at French-based solar infrastructure company Fonroche Lighting. We discus...

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TXF PRI 2019: Santander on brokers and blockchain from 2020-01-02T16:55

On the sidelines of TXF’s PRI conference last month, Saqib Mustafa, executive director of structured trade and receivable finance within the global transaction banking team at Santander, spoke t...

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CPRI market in the process of maturing: TXF talks to Matthew Beckett from 2019-11-29T16:54

Appetite and capacity for credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) has been growing in the past 10 years but may be plateauing as the market matures. Matthew Beckett, EMEA director of insuranc...

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TXF Geneva: Qbera Capital on thinking outside the box from 2019-11-20T16:53

From the sidelines of TXF Geneva, TXF sat down with Amitji Odedra from Qbera Capital to discuss corporate appetite for diversification in funding, how the trade finance gap is creating opportuni...

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How to get the most from CPRI: TXF talks to Boris Jaquet from 2019-11-11T16:52

Boris Jaquet, EMEA Head, distribution, Deutsche Bank talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about his views of the state of play of the Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) market and how to get ...

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TXF Sibos smooth-down with CGI from 2019-10-03T16:51

TXF's head of trade, treasury and risk, Katharine Morton, spoke with CGI's product manager for trade and supply chain solutions Patrick DeVilbiss about the key trends he saw emerging in Sibos 20...

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Risky business: Can Europe trade its way out of crisis? from 2019-08-01T16:50

In the fourth of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about how the internal challenges of the EU continue to pull at ...

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Risky business: China trade turns inward from 2019-07-23T16:49

In the third of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about how it’s not all about trade wars for China trade, but it d...

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Risky business: Examining Exim and trade wars in the US from 2019-07-18T16:48

In the second of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton in more depth about the effects trade wars are having on US trad...

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ADB on lobbying for change in trade finance from 2019-04-23T16:46

TXF spoke with Steven Beck, head of trade and supply chain finance at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), to find out more about the development bank’s year-on-year growth in supported trade, as w...

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Risky Business: Africa terrorism, regime risks and corruption but still relative stability from 2018-12-17T16:45

TXF and Coriolis Technologies’ country risk index investigates the trends in trade weaponization in Africa. Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies points to increased terrorism, political...

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Risky Business: MENA and GCC foreign policy risks rise in unusual places, but beacons of hope exist from 2018-12-12T16:45

TXF and Coriolis Technologies’ country risk index investigates the trends in trade weaponization in MENA and GCC. MENA and GCC foreign policy risks rise outside the usual spots. Rebecca Harding,...

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Risky Business: Brexit ups the rhetoric of trade weaponization in Europe from 2018-12-05T16:44

TXF and Coriolis Technologies’ country risk index digs deep into the strategic trends in militarisation of trade. In this section Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies sees weaponization...

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Risky business: Arms imports up in surprising places in Asia from 2018-12-04T16:43

TXF and Coriolis Technologies’ country risk index digs into strategic trends in trade weaponization in Asia. Here, Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies sees Asia in transition, China’s ...

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Risky Business: Marriages of convenience and hybrid trade wars in Russia and Eurasia from 2018-11-29T16:41

TXF and Coreolis Technologies’ country risk index investigates the trends in trade weaponization in Russia and Eurasia. Here, Russia’s ‘hybrid war’ trade strategy and it’s marriage of convenienc...

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Risky business: Where are we now in world trade weaponization? from 2018-11-28T16:40

TXF and Coreolis Technologies’ country risk index digs deep into the strategic trends in militarisation of trade and in this overview, Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coreolis Technologies sees weaponiz...

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Euler Hermes: Embracing the digital revolution from 2018-11-20T16:39

Mark Schulz, director of risk, claims & collections and executive board member at Euler Hermes, explains how the German ECA has embraced the digital revolution, expanded its presence in emer...

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Shop talk: SMEs drive intra-African trade growth from 2018-11-06T16:38

SMEs are the engine behind Africa’s trade growth, but funding is scarce. Kofi Adomakoh, head of bank guarantees and special finance at Afreximbank, outlines the bank’s mantra, Impact 2021: Afric...

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Are ECAs stepping on the toes of the private market? from 2018-10-29T15:37

TXF spoke with Rachael Anstock, head of UK credit & political risks at Zurich, to discuss the insurer’s product innovations, and to find out whether the private market is competing with ECAs...

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Revisiting the IFC Global Trade Liquidity Programme from 2018-10-24T16:36

Citi extended its participation in the GTLP this summer almost a decade after its inception. TXF spoke with John Ahearn about the importance of the programme.

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Risky Business; Insurance Underwriter Perspectives from 2018-10-17T16:33

In a time of geopolitical uncertainty, how are private insurance underwriters planning ahead for the future and what challenges and opportunities are key risk hot spots presenting to them?

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Shop Talk: Basel IV to pressure lenders to insurance tap from 2018-10-15T16:32

Trade finance is becoming an asset class and there’s an evolving regulatory landscape with Basel IV and PRA changes. Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle, head of supply chain and trade finance at AIG, talks ...

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Shop talk: Trade credit insurance where it’s due, eventually from 2018-10-11T16:31

Amid potential changes to PRA regulations, IFRS accounting standards, and sovereign risk exposures, the trade credit insurance landscape will have to evolve. Gary Lowe, head of the credit insura...

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Breathing new life into insuring trade with Toredo from 2018-10-08T16:30

When it takes the same amount of time to underwrite the risks of a power station as a letter of credit, something had to give. Chris Hall, Senior Underwriter, Liberty Specialty Markets discusses...

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Shop talk: Bespoke CPRI insurance for Gerald Metals from 2018-10-03T16:29

Robert Frank, global head for insurance and risk mitigation at Gerald Metals, spoke to TXF about the CPRI market, the digitisation myth and how having multiple brokers keeps them on their toes.

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Trade digitisation: Do not rush, spend Kairos time with the cyborg-anthropologist from 2018-09-28T16:28

Amber Case is author of ‘Calm Technology’, a book about designing for your attention and designing better technology that works with and not against you, that makes good use of your attention. K...

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Trade funds: Understand your risk buckets better (26 mins) from 2018-08-23T16:27

Getting banks, regulators and investors to understand trade funds better is key to trade evolving as an investible asset class. Aidan Applegarth, owner and managing director of Bankingwise, a tr...

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