ESG’s Expanding Role in Trade Finance Sustainable finance has formed strong roots in the loan and bond markets, but where does it stand in the world of trade? Societe Generale’s Charline Profillet, Deputy Head, Structured Trade Finance, and Marie-Gabrielle de Drouas, Head of ESG Global Transaction Banking, shine a light on its developing role. Trade […]
A successful pilot managed by Surecomp has shown that ESG scoring can now be applied at the individual trade finance transaction level, opening up a world of possibilities for corporate treasurers to support sustainable global trade. The 2022 edition of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, opened on 6 November in the […]
Despite the rise of digitisation up the corporate agenda, many businesses are still clinging to antiquated paper processes. This post examines how digitising trade documents will ‘consign pain points and inefficiences to the history books’. The pandemic exposed the pressures faced by corporate treasury departments that are responsible for managing transactions and credit facilities with […]
The Roaring Twenties were driven by technological progress, developments in economic infrastructure, and defined by a flowering of post-pandemic parties and an explosion of economic activity. Sound familiar? Christoph Gugelmann, Co-Founder and CEO, Tradeteq, explores the likelihood of history repeating itself. Today’s parallel economic conditions have led economists and historians to declare that the Covid-19 […]
Ebru Pakcan has recently been appointed Global Head of Trade, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi. In this candid interview, she speaks about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on trade, and airs her views on the digitisation of trade – from the milestones already reached to the areas still requiring improvement. She also shares her […]
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has created a host of unprecedented challenges for almost every aspect of the treasury function. Nevertheless, working in conjunction with their bank(s), treasurers can armour their teams against many of the challenges. Cash forecasting is becoming increasingly important. Before the pandemic struck, many companies had sufficient cash available, forecasting was often […]
