Trade Treasury Payments

Irene Port began her career with an apprenticeship at HypoVereinsbank (now UniCredit) in 1986 and became a specialist in foreign trade in Munich in 1989. She moved into trade risk management in 1996 and from 2007 served as Deputy Head of UniCredit’s Group Centre of Competence for Forfaiting Financial Institutions and the secondary market.

Her career includes assignments with UniCredit’s Trade Finance Unit in New York and Singapore, before relocating to Hong Kong in 2011 as Head of Trade Finance and Services for the Asia Pacific Region. In 2015, she returned to Munich as Head of Risk & Portfolio Optimisation, overseeing secondary market trade finance transactions, including insurance, multilateral, and supply chain finance risk participations.

In October 2024, Irene joined Munich Re as a Senior Underwriter, focusing on expanding trade finance solutions for banks across FI and corporate risk.