Trade Treasury Payments

Sustainability as the new licence to operate in global trade

Trade Treasury Payments

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 biggest opportunities are emerging, from energy transition and certified commodities to circular economy flows, as well as the practical barriers to mainstream adoption, including greenwashing risk, data availability and the lack of consistent standards.

To unpack what is changing and what comes next, we hear from Simon Bodeus, Director of Sustainable Business Development at Rabobank, Ara Makarian, Business Development lead at ArmSwissBank in Armenia, and Pablo Perez Montero, who leads sustainable finance activity globally for CaixaBank’s corporate and investment banking.