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Trade Treasury Payments
Welcome to the new Trade Treasury Payments podcast, helping you navigate liquidity and risk management.
At TTP, we believe cross-border finance is a catalyst for opportunity. Liquidity fuels livelihoods and risk management paves the way for economic prosperity and growth.
Each episode brings together discussions, analysis, and stories from leading and well recognised voices across industries and regions.
From liquidity solutions and treasury strategies to payment innovations and risk…
Episodes
Trade Treasury PaymentsFollowing the paper trail through Kenya’s digital trade
Kenya has made significant progress in digital trade, but paper documents, manual approvals and disconnected systems continue to slow cross border transactions…
Trade Treasury PaymentsB2B cross-border payments are losing their stickiness, and fintechs are capitalising on it
A £10,000 transfer gave Wise its founding idea. At Sibos in Miami, Mike Robertson of Wise Platform and Johan Gerber of Mastercard discussed how local payment…
Trade Treasury PaymentsCan trade distribution unlock more capital in emerging markets
In partnership with ITFA, TTP’s Deepesh Patel speaks with Boris Jaquet of Deutsche Bank and Vipin Vashishtha of Standard Chartered about bridging the $2.5…
Trade Treasury PaymentsHype cycles, graveyards and the reporters who watched them
How has financial journalism evolved alongside technology, geopolitics and changing media habits? At ITFA’s Annual Conference in Split, TTP Studios hosts…
Trade Treasury PaymentsBeyond ESG: Mauritius Commercial Bank on SROI and the future of African trade finance at ITFA 2026
At ITFA’s 52nd Annual Conference in Split, Dr Rebecca Harding speaks with Arnaud Levasseur of Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) about how the Social Return on…
Trade Treasury PaymentsTrade education in the era of AI
How is AI changing trade finance education? Eleonore Treu of ICC Austria speaks with Alex Gray of LIBF and Geoff Wynne of Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP about the…
Trade Treasury PaymentsHow tokenisation and AI is shaping transaction banking modernisation
How are data, AI, tokenisation and digital identity reshaping transaction banking? Recorded at the ITFA Annual Conference in Split, Croatia, Joy Macknight of…
Trade Treasury PaymentsExclusive: "Digital trade isn't scaling", says ICC DSI, following governance overhaul
Digital trade isn’t scaling. That’s the blunt admission from the ICC Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) as it enters a new phase to tackle fragmentation across…
Trade Treasury PaymentsWho lends to commodity borrowers without a track record?
Who lends to commodity borrowers without a track record? At a TTP breakfast hosted with Geoff Wynne, Sullivan & Worcester, industry leaders debated resilience…
Trade Treasury PaymentsTokenisation, trade, and talent: An interview with the ITFA Chairman at the 52nd ITFA Annual Conference
At ITFA’s 52nd Annual Conference in Split, Croatia, Trade Treasury Payments Editor in Chief Deepesh Patel and Deputy Editor Carter Hoffman joined ITFA Chairman…
Trade Treasury PaymentsBuilding the legal foundations for MSME finance
This episode explores how modern legal infrastructure is reshaping access to finance for micro, small, and medium‑sized enterprises. Drawing on insights from…
Trade Treasury PaymentsAndré Casterman on what trade finance needs next
The conversation with André Casterman explores how trade finance has moved beyond experimentation and into a phase where adoption is the real test of progress…
Trade Treasury PaymentsInvesting in emerging markets: EBRD TFP's "Magic Shield" Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank’s long standing partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has become a defining example of how…
Trade Treasury PaymentsUnlocking India’s factoring potential
India’s factoring market holds significant untapped potential. In this conversation, Deepesh Patel, Editor at Trade Treasury Payments, speaks with Ravi…
Trade Treasury PaymentsNavigating the risk landscape in trade credit insurance
he trade credit and surety market is navigating a more complex risk environment, with volatility, currency fluctuations, trade tensions, supply chain fragility…
Trade Treasury PaymentsC-Suite insurance series: Atradius bets on connectivity to transform credit insurance
As the credit insurance industry marks its centenary, the sector is looking ahead to a period shaped by rapid change, new technologies and evolving risks. In…
Trade Treasury PaymentsSMBC's Kawamura on risk, resilience, and the future of trade finance
In this episode, we explore how SMBC is reshaping trade finance in an era defined by geopolitical tension, supply chain disruption, and shifting corporate…
Trade Treasury PaymentsFounder Spotlight: Mariya George, Cleareye.ai
Mariya George, co‑founder and CEO of Cleareye.ai, joins Deepesh Patel in the TTP Studios to explore how AI is reshaping the realities of trade finance. Drawing…
Trade Treasury PaymentsHow digital infrastructure is transforming risk domestically and across borders
In this episode of the Trade Treasury Payments Podcast, Deepesh Patel sits down with Neil Shonhard, CEO of MonetaGo, during the FCI 58th Annual Meeting in…
Trade Treasury PaymentsBecoming AI-first, with the human still in the loop
The conversation with Karol Leszczyński, Product Development Manager at Comarch, explores how a technology provider approaches AI within its own walls before…
Trade Treasury PaymentsC-Suite insurance series: Coface Group CEO on pushing AI agentic to its limit
The conversation with Xavier Durand, Group CEO of Coface, explores how credit insurance is evolving at a moment when AI acceleration, shifting trade flows and…
Trade Treasury PaymentsLocal currency, global impact: Inside Ameriabank's green leasing model
Armenia’s leading trade finance institution, Ameriabank, shares how it delivered a first‑of‑its‑kind green leasing transaction in local currency under the EBRD…
Trade Treasury PaymentsC-Suite insurance series: Swiss Re’s Chief People Officer, on closing the skills and talent gap
This conversation with Nicole Pieterse van der Velde, Global Chief People Officer at Swiss Re, explores how credit insurance and reinsurance are navigating a…
Trade Treasury PaymentsWhat is reshaping the factoring industry, with FCI’s Betul Kurtulus?
At the FCI 58th Annual Meeting in Lisboa, Deputy Secretary General Betul Kurtulus joins Trade Treasury Payments to unpack the latest developments shaping the…
Trade Treasury PaymentsThe Taiwan advantage: AI, semiconductors, and ICT
Taiwan’s growing influence in artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing sits at the heart of this conversation with Vincent Chin Hsiang Yao, Taiwan’s…
Trade Treasury PaymentsThe world is a bit upside down – but that is exactly our function
The centenary of ICISA offers a rare look into an industry that quietly supports global trade. In this conversation, Jan Müller reflects on the scale and…
Trade Treasury PaymentsMeet Swift for carbon data, and why this matters for trade and treasury
As carbon reporting moves from a compliance exercise to a core business priority, the infrastructure behind sustainability data is becoming just as important…
Trade Treasury PaymentsWho is drawing Africa's new trade finance map?
Africa’s trade finance landscape is shifting in ways that challenge long held assumptions. In this episode, Carter Hoffman speaks with Eugene Bempong Nyantakyi…
Trade Treasury PaymentsFess up time: Is digital trade finally changing?
The latest episode brings Oswald Kuyler back to TTP Studios, five years after he first used an avocado to illustrate the absurd volume of paperwork behind a…
Trade Treasury PaymentsThe wheel of risk: Navigating geopolitical transition and the future of trade
As global power dynamics shift and economic uncertainty reshapes trade flows, understanding geopolitical risk has become a business imperative. In this episode…
Trade Treasury PaymentsThe missing rails behind the $2.5 trillion trade finance gap
The latest episode explores the structural pressures behind the two point five trillion dollar trade finance gap and why the industry’s long‑standing…
Trade Treasury PaymentsPremeditated Industrial Destruction: Is energy policy throttling UK industry?
Is the UK deliberately pricing its own industries out of existence? In this video, we examine the growing debate around Britain’s energy policies, industrial…
Trade Treasury PaymentsMultilateralism 2.0
Multilateralism is no longer confined to governments, closed door negotiations, and legacy institutions. In this conversation, we explore how a new era of…
Trade Treasury PaymentsCommodity finance in 2026: Bigger deals, fewer players
Commodity finance is changing fast. In 2026, deal sizes are rising, the lender pool is shrinking, and market segmentation is becoming more pronounced. In this…
Trade Treasury PaymentsClosing the FX risk gap for SMEs and mid-market companies
Many small and mid sized businesses are trading internationally more than ever, but their approach to foreign exchange risk has not kept pace. This episode…
Trade Treasury PaymentsCelebrating 100 years of credit insurance and surety
At Trade Treasury Payments Studios, Eleanor Hill, Treasury Editor at Trade Treasury Payments (TTP), spoke with Richard Wulff, Executive Director of the…


Trade Treasury PaymentsInside the shadow fleet and the new era of maritime enforcement
In this episode of Trade Treasury Payments, host Carter Hoffman speaks with Michelle Bockmann, Senior Maritime Intelligence Analyst at Windward, about the…
Trade Treasury PaymentsIntroducing Trade Treasury Payments Studios
In the first episode from TTP Studios, Trade Treasury Payments Editor in Chief Deepesh Patel sits down with Eleanor Hill, Treasury Editor at TTP, to discuss…
Trade Treasury PaymentsHormuz crisis threatens global trade stability
In this episode of the Trade Treasury Payments podcast, Carter Hoffman, Trade and Technology Editor at TTP, speaks with Dr Guido Cozzi, Professor of…
Trade Treasury PaymentsRebuilding trust for a borderless digital economy
In this episode of the Trade Treasury Payments podcast, Carter Hoffman, Trade and Technology Editor at TTP, speaks with Adam Cooper, Director of NextID…
Trade Treasury PaymentsBreaking the paper chain: Insights from the “Future of End-to-End Trade Digitalisation”
Future of End-to-End Trade Digitalisation features Deepesh Patel in conversation with Luca Castellani, architect of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic…
Trade Treasury PaymentsExpanding access to trade finance for women-led SMEs across Asia
This episode of our podcast series with the Asian Development Bank’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program (TSCFP) explores why women-led SMEs across Asia…
Trade Treasury PaymentsTransparency in trade finance and the fight against TBML
This episode of our podcast series with the Asian Development Bank’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program (TSCFP) explores what transparency looks like in…
Trade Treasury PaymentsAdvancing digital trade with the Commonwealth’s model law
This episode of the podcast series explores how legal modernisation and digital public infrastructure are shaping the future of global trade, with a particular…
Trade Treasury Payments2025 year-end review: tariffs, liquidity engineering, payments, and what comes next
As 2025 draws to a close, Trade Treasury Payments looks back at the themes that defined the year across trade, treasury, payments, and risk, and considers what…
Trade Treasury PaymentsSustainability as the new licence to operate in global trade
This episode of our podcast series with the Asian Development Bank’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program (TSCFP) explores how banks are embedding climate…
Trade Treasury PaymentsThe insurance–MDB partnership reshaping emerging-market trade
This episode of our podcast series with the Asian Development Bank’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program (TSCFP) takes a closer look at insurance and…
Trade Treasury PaymentsThe holy trinity of trade technology: compliance, time-to-market, and implementation
Digital adoption in global trade is accelerating, and the industry is now confronting the three forces that determine whether new technology takes hold inside…
Trade Treasury PaymentsTF COP’s moment of truth for closing the trade finance gap
With the next TF COP meeting approaching in London, the trade finance community is again being asked to confront the structural forces behind the persistent…
Trade Treasury PaymentsRoad to Belém | UNDP’s plan to mobilise sustainable finance
With COP 30 underway in Belém, governments, development institutions, and investors are now being asked to turn national climate targets into real and…
Trade Treasury PaymentsHow to make trade finance assets more investable
The trade finance gap stands at around $2.5 trillion, according to the most recent biennial survey by the Asian Development Bank. At a recent Trade Treasury…
Trade Treasury PaymentsThe G20 roadmap and the future of cross-border payments
Amid four packed days at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, experts from across the transaction banking space came together to discuss (among many other topics from a…
Trade Treasury PaymentsNo old normal: Inside the West’s economic war
Economist Rebecca Harding’s new book The World at Economic War argues that globalisation has failed to deliver balanced prosperity — and that Western nations…
Trade Treasury PaymentsUK defence finance boosts support for British exporters, says UKEF Director Carl Williamson
Today, the global economy is surrounded by geopolitical uncertainty and shifting trade patterns. In this, UK Export Finance (UKEF) stands as a critical pillar…
Trade Treasury PaymentsRunning the distance: Why trade finance needs smarter regulation and broader voices
Over breakfast, Kubiak reflected on the Commission’s legacy and outlined its present focus on the rules that underpin global trade, the principles shaping…
Trade Treasury PaymentsDeep Tech, Deep Tier, Deep Impact: scaling supply chain finance from pilot to performance
Moderated by Merisa Lee Gimpel, founder of Digital Trade Works and a member of the TTP Advisory Council, the live podcast brought together Alex Fenechiu…
Trade Treasury PaymentsTwo up, two down: trade finance themes shaping 2025
Ahead of a flurry of trade events taking place in Singapore (including ADB, GTR, BAFT, and ITFA events), Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) hosted a fireside chat…
Trade Treasury PaymentsAPEC’s agenda: Digital trade, resilient supply chains, and inclusive growth
TTP’s Trade Editor Carter Hoffman sat down with Carlos Kuriyama, Director of the Policy Support Unit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)…