Sevilla, Spain. Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) has joined the TF COP Task Force as a founding media partner, supporting a coalition of global institutions working to close the persistent trade finance gap. The Task Force was formally launched in Sevilla this week, on the sidelines of the United Nations Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4).
TTP editor Deepesh Patel spoke to Benjamin Mugisha, Chief Underwriting Officer of ATIDI – African Trade & Investment Development Insurance, who shared how ATIDI has evolved, from issuing standalone guarantees to building portfolio approaches with financial institutions.
We’re live in Sevilla, Spain, at the ITFA TF COP gathering. Today, on the fringes of the United Nations Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), a coalition of public and private institutions formally launched the TF COP Task Force. The ambition is to close the trade finance gap, through a coordinated mix of sandbox pilots, advocacy, and capital solutions.
Official export credit agencies (ECAs) have been formally recognised by the United Nations as key actors in mobilising private capital to advance the Sustainable Development Goals, following their inclusion in the outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), known as the Compromiso de Sevilla.
Join Trade Treasury Payments Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Deepesh Patel, catching up with EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso, discussing the bank’s Sub-Saharan African expansion and the role of the Trade Facilitation Programme as a ‘day one’ response tool during crises.
Three regional development banks – the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), and CAF
At a glance, the trade dynamics of Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, the so-called CAM-3, present a story of modest but
Trade has become well-established and recognised among practitioners and policymakers as an effective way to support and advance international development and poverty reduction. Multilateral institutions, including multilateral development banks (MDBs), have embraced this perspective, and most leading MDBs today put significant priority on the nexus between trade and development.
Coming soon! Rebecca Harding, CEO of the Centre for Economic Security, outlines how the proposed Defence, Security and Resilience Bank