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.

At Sibos 2025, in the “Sustainable finance: Building an interoperable future for green assets, data and risk” panel, industry leaders discussed the complex reality of sustainable finance, offering insights that go beyond simple ideas of green investing to address the detailed infrastructure needed for real market change.

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At the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Annual Conference in Singapore, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Dr. Rebecca Harding, author of The World at Economic War and Editorial Board Member at TTP, about her work on social return on investment (SROI) and the shifts in global trade.

At the International Chamber of Commerce’s headquarters, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) sat down with John Denton to discuss the health of the World Trade Organization, the ICC’s future role in multilateral decision-making, export finance for Ukraine’s rebuild, and the plumbing that holds climate finance back.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins has threatened to ban overseas companies from using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) if its rulemakers continue to pursue sustainability and climate-related initiatives.

Sustainability is now the flashpoint of a worldwide argument. Finding a way to integrate it into financing schemes amid mounting regulatory pressure is reshaping supply chains. As a result and through a mix of policy reforms, institutional initiatives, and private investment, we are starting to see the emergence of a new field, known as sustainable supply chain finance (SSCF).

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), formed in 2021 by former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, has paused all activities while its members vote on restructuring the organisation’s climate action strategy.

In this week’s double take, TTP Global Advisory Panel member Alexander R. Malaket, CTFP, GCB.D, sends one clear message: don’t forget about #sustainability.