The Breakfast Club: Is digitalisation closing the unfunded trade finance gap, or making things worse?

Trade finance still fails to reach many of the businesses that need it most, particularly smaller firms and those in emerging markets. Digitalisation has long been promised as part of the answer: electronic trade documents, new platforms and data-driven credit decisions. But is it widening access to finance, is it simply easier and cheaper to serve the clients banks already have? Could fragmented platforms and standards even make the gap harder to close?

Join Trade Treasury Payments and Sullivan & Worcester for a working breakfast discussion with practitioners from law, alternative finance, digital trade infrastructure and development finance on what is really working, and what is not.

Agenda

• 08:30: Arrival, networking and breakfast
• 09:00: Welcome from TTP
• 09:05: Panel discussion and audience Q&A
• 10:00: Close

Speakers

• Geoff Wynne, Partner, Sullivan & Worcester (Moderator)
• Anthony Wadsworth-Hill, Group Deputy CEO, Mercore
• Matthew Cox, Partner, Sullivan & Worcester
• Marina Comninos, Co-Head, ICE Digital Trade
• Oswald Kuyler, Senior Digital Trade Advisor, Asian Development Bank
• Anis Ahsan, Head of Trade Finance Operations, Ghana International Bank PLC