TTP editor Deepesh Patel spoke to Benjamin Mugisha, Chief Underwriting Officer of ATIDI – African Trade & Investment Development Insurance, who shared how ATIDI has evolved, from issuing standalone guarantees to building portfolio approaches with financial institutions.
We’re live in Sevilla, Spain, at the ITFA TF COP gathering. Today, on the fringes of the United Nations Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), a coalition of public and private institutions formally launched the TF COP Task Force. The ambition is to close the trade finance gap, through a coordinated mix of sandbox pilots, advocacy, and capital solutions.
Official export credit agencies (ECAs) have been formally recognised by the United Nations as key actors in mobilising private capital to advance the Sustainable Development Goals, following their inclusion in the outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), known as the Compromiso de Sevilla.
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