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
53 episodes
The Taiwan advantage: AI, semiconductors, and ICT
Taiwan’s growing influence in artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing sits at the heart of this conversation with Vincent Chin Hsiang Yao, Taiwan’s Representative to the United Kingdom. Speaking at the EBRD Trade Facilitation Program...
The world is a bit upside down – but that is exactly our function
The centenary of ICISA offers a rare look into an industry that quietly supports global trade. In this conversation, Jan Müller reflects on the scale and invisibility of trade credit insurance, an essential mechanism that covers trillions in re...
Meet Swift for carbon data, and why this matters for trade and treasury
As carbon reporting moves from a compliance exercise to a core business priority, the infrastructure behind sustainability data is becoming just as important as the data itself. In this episode, Joy Macknight speaks with Naama Avni Kadosh, Dire...
Who is drawing Africa's new trade finance map?
Africa’s trade finance landscape is shifting in ways that challenge long held assumptions. In this episode, Carter Hoffman speaks with Eugene Bempong Nyantakyi and Lamin Drammeh from the African Development Bank to unpack the findings of the Ba...
Fess up time: Is digital trade finally changing?
The latest episode brings Oswald Kuyler back to TTP Studios, five years after he first used an avocado to illustrate the absurd volume of paperwork behind a simple shipment. This conversation picks up where that moment left off, exploring what ...
The wheel of risk: Navigating geopolitical transition and the future of trade
As global power dynamics shift and economic uncertainty reshapes trade flows, understanding geopolitical risk has become a business imperative. In this episode of Trade Treasury Payments, we explore how political transitions, strategic competit...
The missing rails behind the $2.5 trillion trade finance gap
The latest episode explores the structural pressures behind the two point five trillion dollar trade finance gap and why the industry’s long‑standing explanations no longer hold. Drawing on insights from Ayo Ojerinola, Founder and CEO of NOBO F...
Premeditated Industrial Destruction: Is energy policy throttling UK industry?
Is the UK deliberately pricing its own industries out of existence? In this video, we examine the growing debate around Britain’s energy policies, industrial competitiveness, and the long-term consequences of Net Zero legislation. Drawing on ar...
Multilateralism 2.0
Multilateralism is no longer confined to governments, closed door negotiations, and legacy institutions. In this conversation, we explore how a new era of global cooperation is taking shape through what many are calling “Multilateralism 2.0” — ...
Commodity finance in 2026: Bigger deals, fewer players
Commodity finance is changing fast. In 2026, deal sizes are rising, the lender pool is shrinking, and market segmentation is becoming more pronounced. In this conversation, industry experts break down what’s driving the shift — from billion‑dol...
Closing the FX risk gap for SMEs and mid-market companies
Many small and mid sized businesses are trading internationally more than ever, but their approach to foreign exchange risk has not kept pace. This episode looks at the growing gap between global exposure and the tools available to manage it.
Celebrating 100 years of credit insurance and surety
At Trade Treasury Payments Studios, Eleanor Hill, Treasury Editor at Trade Treasury Payments (TTP), spoke with Richard Wulff, Executive Director of the International Credit Insurance and Surety Association (ICISA), to reflect on a cent...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...