This year’s edition was edited by Carter Hoffman, Trade and Technology Editor at Trade Treasury Payments (TTP), who worked with the WTO Secretariat to ensure the clarity and accessibility of the report’s findings.

At the launch of the World Trade Report 2025 in Geneva, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Emmanuelle Ganne, Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

TTP’s Trade Editor Carter Hoffman sat down with Carlos Kuriyama, Director of the Policy Support Unit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore, to discuss how APEC is shaping the future of cross-border trade. 

The ICC Digital Standards Initiative (ICC DSI), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) convened the Digital Trade Transformation Forum in Geneva on 10th September, addressing the challenge of fragmented digital trade systems.

At the Komgo Rooftop Networking Event in Singapore, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Baptiste Audren, Chief Revenue Officer at Komgo, about how the company is helping corporates and banks manage guarantees, letters of credit, and standbys more efficiently.

The whitepaper Electronic Transferable Records: The Adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR), presented by ICC Netherlands together with a broad coalition of companies, banks and business associations to the Dutch Parliament on September 1, 2025, highlights the urgent need for legislative reform.

To explore this in greater depth, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) Editor Deepesh Patel spoke with Neil Shonhard, CEO of MonetaGo, and Neal Harm, Secretary General of FCI, following the July Breakfast Club in London.

The ITFA Emerging Leaders Awards were created to do something most conferences only talk about: give the mic and the main stage to the next generation. What began as a young professionals push is now a fixture with a clear mandate to make trade finance visible and viable as a career, and platform ideas that move the market.

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.