GTR US - Trade, working capital and supply chain conference

Returning to #NewYork on November 7, #GTRUS will host the leading event for the US trade, supply chain, working capital financing and risk management community. Over 50 expert speakers will provide unrivalled, in-depth content in over 10 event discussions, including: » Impacts of a high interest rate environment on #SCF demand » Hecho en Mexico: Financing the intra-American #manufacturing boom » Basel Endgame and Regulation Q: Levelling the playing field » NBFIs and #fintech: Deepening #liquidity for sub-investment grade #corporates » End user experiences in inventory management » AI: Prospects for fully automated, event-driven #financing Secure a 10% early booking discount by registering before September 4, 2024. Visit gtreview.com/gtrus or contact [email protected] to register. We look forward to welcoming you to the 20 year anniversary of the conference! #USTrade #SupplyChains #Financing

And that’s a wrap! We would like to thank our expert chairs and speakers for an excellent day of debate and discussion at #GTRUS 2023, which took place in #NewYork yesterday. With a record-breaking attendance of over 500, delegates enjoyed a day of networking and key insights into emerging trends and opportunities at the intersection of #trade, #supplychain, #workingcapital #financing and #riskmanagement. We hope you enjoyed the lively debate and in-depth discussions, and found the sessions and networking opportunities beneficial. And with that, GTR events for 2023 are now officially over! We are thrilled to have welcomed over 8,000 delegates to over 18 international events this year and look forward to connecting with you again in 2024. Which event will we see you at next? 🗓️ February 20-21: GTR MENA 2024 Dubai 🗓️ March 7-8: GTR Africa 2024 Cape Town 🗓️ May 9: GTR India 2024 Mumbai 🗓️ June 20: GTR UK 2024 London 🗓️ September 3-4: GTR Asia 2024 Singapore 🗓️ September 19: GTR Commodities 2024 Geneva Visit www.gtreview.com/events for more announcements. We look forward to seeing you again soon! #GTRUS #TradeFinance #CorporateEvents

And that’s a wrap! We would like to thank our expert chairs and speakers for an excellent day of debate and discussion at #GTRUS 2023, which took place in #NewYork yesterday. With a record-breaking attendance of over 500 attendees, delegates enjoyed a full day of networking and key insights into emerging trends and opportunities at the intersection of trade, supply chain, working capital financing and risk management. We hope you enjoyed the lively debate and in-depth discussions, and found the sessions and networking opportunities beneficial. And with that, GTR events for 2023 are now officially over! We are thrilled to have welcomed over 8,000 delegates to over 18 international events this year and look forward to connecting with you again in 2024. Which event will we see you at next? 🗓️ February 20-21: GTR MENA 2024 Dubai 🗓️ March 7-8: GTR Africa 2024 Cape Town 🗓️ May 9: GTR India 2024 Mumbai 🗓️ June 20: GTR UK 2024 London 🗓️ September 3-4: GTR Asia 2024 Singapore 🗓️ September 19: GTR Commodities 2024 Geneva Stay tuned for more 2024 event announcements, including some new event locations! Visit www.gtreview.com/events to stay up-to-date . We look forward to seeing you soon!

At GTR US in New York yesterday, Thomas Giuntini (MUFG Bank), Kamel Alzarka (Falcon Group), Mikael Petersen (Benteler Trading International) and Massimo Capretta (Mayer Brown) mapped the inventory solution market. Discussion points highlighted success factors and pitfalls experienced in executing recent transactions, from the need to ensure the program structure fits into the supply chain ecosystem it is operating within, to the importance of buy-in from senior management and across internal departments, the challenges around financial structuring and accounting treatment, and the maintenance effort required to ensure an inventory program evolves with the supply chain. #GTRUS #InventoryManagement #Solutions

The trade finance and credit insurance sectors are galvanizing following the recent release by the Federal Reserve on the Basel III endgame, and for US trade lenders, risk off-takers and corporates the stakes are high. AT GTR US in New York yesterday, Scott Ettien (WTW), Deepti Khaire-Phanse (Swiss Re Corporate Solutions), Harpreet Mann (Amynta Trade Credit & Political Risk Solutions) and Sanjeev Ganjoo (Citi) highlighted the role of credit insurance in enhancing receivables financing deals. Speakers outlined concerns over future supply chain financing market and trade credit insurance capacity, shared their latest activities and expectations, and assessed the worst and best case regulatory scenarios and expected timelines. Advice was also offered on how industry practitioners can push in the same direction for positive regulatory change that stands to be a game changer for the US supply chain finance community. #GTRUS #TradeRegulation #TradeCreditInsurance

Global trade is a unique activity in its potential to reach deep into a society still grappling with historical inequalities; that a diverse workforce is better positioned to understand customer needs and solve for them is arguably more applicable to trade than any other business. Delivering effective Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) policies and initiatives across the trade ecosystem is therefore not merely a moral duty but also a savvy business move. At GTR US in New York yesterday, Erin Hatzikostas (bestselling author & multimedia host) led a conversation with sector leaders, Marissa Adams (HSBC), Nathalie Louat (International Finance Corporation (IFC)), Judith Pryor (Export-Import Bank of the United States) and Rachael Snow (BNY Mellon), who shared perspectives on the many facets of D&I as relates to trade and trade financing. Speakers discussed several key topics, from the need to build a pipeline of new talent to sustain industry verticals traditionally lacking in diversity, to the importance at both local and national economic levels of promoting minority-owned business growth, and the D&I business case. #GTRUS #Diversity #TradeFinance

Use case possibilities in embedded trade lending for B2B are numerous with some areas promising a significant impact. New financial infrastructure including APIs and open banking is required to enable these possibilities but while many people mistake API banking, open banking and embedded finance as being synonymous, they are very different in nature. At GTR US in New York yesterday, Raja Debnath, Managing Director of Veefin Solutions, provided an overview of the embedded finance landscape, highlighting opportunities for corporates and their lenders, and identify the key technologies promoting one of the latest areas for supply chain finance innovation. #GTRUS #EmbeddedFinancing #Fintech

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine the European Union introduced unprecedented economic sanctions, swiftly followed by a plummet in exports of sanctioned goods from the West to Russia. Almost simultaneously exports of the same goods to Russia’s neighbours skyrocketed pointing to ‘parallel exports’ channelled through third countries, predominantly in Central Asia. That these exports include dual-use goods that can be used on the battlefield in Ukraine speaks to the grave nature of the challenge. At GTR US 2023 in New York yesterday, Ginger Faulk (Eversheds Sutherland) and Stephen Bomgardner (Pole Star) provided an analysis on the risks faced by both exporters and their financiers through re-export to Russia, offering practical guidance on the processes and tools that can be utilised to assess and investigate the likelihood of exposure and ultimately prevent sanctions breaches. #GTRUS #PrivateSector

Working capital management starts with transparency of data, with a real-time view of existing liquidity and optimization of cash flows enabling treasurers to put excess liquidity to work to achieve additional yield. This in turn promotes investment in company growth, bolsters suppliers’ financials with working capital instruments, and helps the obligor to stabilize its supply chain. Yesterday at GTR US, Sonja Simon (Regional CFO of Latin America & the Caribbean, SAP), a senior executive from this market-leading MNC, shared insight into its fintech-enabled working capital program, highlighting the importance of a flexible platform offering different financing instruments and funding diversity to achieve these strategic goals while managing risks in an environment of deteriorating macroeconomic trends and higher financing costs. #GTRUS #TradeFinance #WorkingCapital #USConference

Is the quality and availability of data the keystone for trade finance digitisation, and what can be learned on leveraging data from the digitisation use cases gaining traction in today’s market? At GTR US in New York yesterday, Ben Arber (Complidata), Andrew Holmes (Demica), Greg Barrett (Bank of America), Jeff Anop (Coface) and Alisa Rusanoff (Crescendo Asset Management) shared lessons learned in trade digitalisation and new frontiers for bank - fintech collaboration. #GTRUS #Fintech #Digitalisation