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 mitigation, the TTP Podcast will keep you informed and equipped in this rapidly evolving market.
Episodes
41 episodes
Inside 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 growing role of shadow fleets in global shipping. Their conversation explores how s...
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Introducing 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 the shifts reshaping global trade, treasury and payments. The conv...
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8:36
Hormuz 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 Macroeconomics at the University of St. Gallen, about the potential...
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Rebuilding 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 Limited, and Luca Castellani, author of the UNCITRAL M...
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42:21
Breaking 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 Transferable Records, and Bertrand Chen, CEO of the Global Shipping Business Network, on th...
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47:08
Transparency 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 finance operations and why it is central to tackling trade-based money laundering...
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Expanding 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 continue to face barriers in accessing trade finance, and how banks are working to addre...
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Advancing 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 focus on developing and emerging markets.We examine the Commonwealth’s new Mo...
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2025 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 2026 may bring.In this year end conversation, Trade Treasury Payments’ Deepes...
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Sustainability 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 and sustainability criteria into trade and supply chain finance.We look at where...
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47:05
The 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 reinsurance.We shift the conversation toward risk and take a look at some of the par...
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The 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 large organisations: compliance, speed to market and implementation. These pressures ...
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28:58
TF 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 $2.5 trillion financing gap. Closing it will require not only capital but a redesigned ...
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Road 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 deployable investment plans. In practice, that requires a financial architecture capable of d...
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26:43
How 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 Payments Breakfast Club, held on 15th October in London, panellists discus...
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The 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 long agenda) how to make cross-border payments better. Today, trillions of dollars move...
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20:15
No 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 must treat economics as a matter of national security. From F-35 supply chain...
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35:18
UK 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 supporting British exporters as they venture into global markets. UKEF primarily prov...
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Season 1
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Running 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 sustainable finance, the data that underwrites advocacy, and the final regulatory hurdles...
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36:57
Deep 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, co-founder and CRO of Finverity, and Chetan Talwar, supply chain finance lead at the Asian...
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Two 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 with Alexander Malaket, President of OPUS Advisory Services International and founding...
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19:51
APEC’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) Secretariat in Singapore, to discuss how APEC is shaping the future of cross-border trade.<...
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SME Sustainability Toolkit: Trade, compliance, and access to finance
🇿🇦 At the Global SME Ministerial Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, TTP spoke with Aparna Soni (ADB) and Gregory Sampson (ITC) about a new initiative designed to reshape SME access to sustainable trade and finance. https://trade...
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