GTR Trade Talks

Welcome to an exciting episode of GTR Trade Talks! Join us as we dive into the highlights of this year's event, which unfolded in the vibrant city of Singapore on September 5-6, 2023. Over 1,200 delegates from across the globe gathered at GTR Asia 2023 to gain invaluable insights into the ever-evolving realms of trade, treasury, commodities, and fintech. This dynamic event served as a platform where industry leaders, experts, and enthusiasts came together to explore practical strategies and innovations shaping the future of international business. A familiar face took the stage once again this year. Peter Ong, Chairman of Enterprise Singapore, delivered the keynote address for the third consecutive year. In his compelling speech, he illuminated the audience on the rapid growth and transformative trends in trade digitalisation that have emerged over the past year. Get ready to discover the key takeaways and inspiring moments from this insightful event. Tune in and join us on this journey through the world of trade, treasury, commodities, and fintech at GTR Asia 2023!

In the latest episode of the Trade Talks podcast, we reflect on GTR's return to the live events space with the 2021 instalment of GTR UK, which welcomed over 400 delegates in London last week. We’re joined on the podcast by the chair of the event, Adam Marshall, a senior advisor to Flint Global and HSBC UK, and who until fairly recently was Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce. He gives an overview of some of the main “takeaways” from the day, including the two different languages being spoken in the UK trade sector, growing efforts to digitise trade and bolster supply chain resiliency, and how inflation could hit British businesses in the year ahead.

In this latest installment of the Trade Talks podcast, we hear from various experts who joined GTR's recent Trade Finance Funds 2021 webinar, exploring the increasingly central role of funds in the trade finance ecosystem, from differing business models to changes in investor sentiment and the role of ESG, technological advances and the ongoing need for transparency and due diligence.

In this new GTR podcast, Tedd George, Founder and Chief Narrative Officer of Kleos Advisory provides an overview of key themes from GTR's recent Africa-focused virtual events, which took place in October 2020, from geopolitical trends to intra-bank collaboration and digitisation drives.

2020 saw headwinds continue to buffet the global commodity financing sector. In this GTR podcast, Tedd George, Founder and Chief Narrative Officer of Kleos Advisory highlights some of the crucial themes, from industry efforts to build resilience to ongoing tech development and ESG initiatives.

In this latest podcast instalment, GTR speaks with Rajiv Biswas, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at IHS Markit on the impact of COVID-19 on trade and global supply in East Asia. Among the key points covered:

In this latest podcast instalment, GTR gathers a number of experts together to assess the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, lockdowns and economic turbulence on the African market.

Looking back to the GTR Nordics 2019 conference in Stockholm last November emphasises just how much priorities have changed across the trade sector during the first half of 2020; though many of the ‘old normal’ challenges discussed will inevitably persist into the future. In this latest podcast episode we recap highlights selected from 2 of the event’s keynote sessions, and catch up with the team at blockchain consortium we.trade on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic:

Though the world has changed in many ways since, before the implications of COVID 19 took hold February's 800-plus gathering of leading trade finance professionals had much to discuss. In this latest podcast episode, we recap some of the highlights selected from 4 distinctly different sessions:

With few events taking place worldwide right now, we thought we would take a look back at one of GTR’s biggest in 2019. In this podcast episode, Tedd George, Founder & Chief Narrative Officer of Kleos Advisory, gives us a recap of some of the highlights from last year’s GTR Africa conference in London. The debate: Two teams of experts argue whether China’s extensive investment in Africa can be considered positive or negative, discussing concerns over the quality of Chinese-made infrastructure and the influence large scale investment brings. The ‘solar panel’: With millions of people and businesses in Africa still lacking a reliable power supply, this discussion focusses on two solar suppliers, Azuri Technologies & SunCulture, providing insight into their journeys developing crucial infrastructure in Africa.

One of the key consequences of various developments in the region is the ongoing rerouting of many of Asia’s supply chains, seen as only likely to continue in the current climate. This podcast, a featured session from GTR Asia 2019, will address the following: Moderator: Puja Kumar, Director, Head of Trade Risk Distribution APAC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Munish Kaushal, Area Finance Director & CFO, GSK Southeast Asia Larry Sloven, President, Capstone International HK Sanjay Tiwari, Head of Implementation, Maersk Trade Finance Anupam Verma, Chief Executive, ICICI Bank Singapore Malini Hariharan, Head of South Asia Markets, ICIS Independent expert: Rebecca Harding, Chief Executive Officer, Coriolis Technologies; Author, ‘The Weaponization of Trade’

A lot can happen in a year! GTR Asia 2018 was dominated by the backdrop of ongoing trade tensions and potential ramifications of a full-scale trade war between the US and China. So what is new 12 months later? During GTR Asia 2019, the world’s largest international gathering for the trade finance community, six experts come together to reflect on a range of topics including: Analysis by: Michael Every, Head of Financial Markets Research, Asia-Pacific, Rabobank Moderator: Parag Khanna, Founder & Managing Partner, FutureMap; Global Strategy Advisor & Author, ‘The Future is Asian’ Ajay Sharma, Regional Head of Global Trade & Receivables Finance, Asia Pacific, HSBC Timothy Stratford, Managing Partner, Covington & Burling; Former Assistant US Trade Representative Vishal Kapoor, Managing Director, Asia Trade Head, Citi Claire Thompson, Executive Vice-President, Enterprise Partnerships, Mastercard