Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight met with Marie-Laure Gastellu, Global Head of Trade Finance, Societe Generale to discuss embedding ESG and digitisation in trade finance. She pointed to two major challenges: corporate adoption and interoperability — ensuring trust and ownership as the industry transitions from paper to data.

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight spoke with Wim Grosemans, Global Head of Product Management – Payments and Receivables at BNP Paribas, about how banks can move beyond compliance to use ISO 20022 as a catalyst to turbocharge their payments business — and what true strategic collaboration in payments innovation really looks like.

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight spoke to Claire about one of the hottest topics at Sibos right now, AI and stablecoins. She also mentioned cross-border payment challenges.

🔥 #hottopicsofsibos, with Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight featuring Sofia Hammoucha, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital at Standard Chartered.

TTP spoke to her about how banks and corporates cope with the uncertainty in global trade relations and the meaning of this year’s Sibos theme “The next frontiers in global finance”.

We spoke to Bank of America’s Head of Trade and Supply Chain Finance, Geoff Brady, talking about the impact of tariff discussions on global trade and supply chain finance, as well as the most important factor that will move trade finance towards greater digitisation.

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At the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) 51st Annual Conference in Singapore, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Sean Edwards, Chairman of ITFA, to reflect on the association’s priorities and the themes shaping trade finance today.

In a fascinating interview today, Carlos Kuriyama, Director for the Policy Support Unit at APEC – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, delivered a clear message: global problems demand global solutions.

In this second double take, we heard from Craig Weeks, SVP Trade at BAFT (Bankers Association for Finance and Trade). It’s time to act on trade digitisation. Now.