GTR Africa - Trade and export finance conference

We were delighted to have welcomed 535 delegates to the UK's leading and unrivalled Africa-focused trade, export and infrastructure financing conference, GTR Africa 2024, in London on November 14. 🎥 The post-event wrap-up video is now available! In this highlight video, hear the key themes discussed during our panel sessions, witness the vibrant networking breaks as well as listen to first-hand accounts from key industry leaders. During the day, over 60 expert speakers explored Africa’s infrastructure financing, working capital solutions for SMEs, trade corridor realignment and priorities for managing sovereign debt and much more. A big thank you to all speakers, supporters and delegates for making the conference a huge success! For more information about GTR Events visit gtreview.com/events and join us next year for GTR Africa 2025 London, by visiting https://lnkd.in/dBDDru9d. 🤝 Looking to make more connections in the market? Don’t forget to access the free GTR Directory for contact details of over 2,000 trade finance representatives. Visit gtreview.com/directory 📢 Stay up-to-date with hashtag #tradefinancenews. Visit gtreview.com/news to access 4 publication or news articles a month! From all of us here at GTR, we thank you for your support and look forward to connecting with you again at another upcoming event 👉 gtreview.com/events #GTRAfrica #GTREvents #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastructureFinance

We are delighted to announce that we are hosting another online instalment of GTR Training: Integrating ESG Risk into Commodity Trade Finance on January 21-22. Connect with #banking and #tradefinance professionals for this highly interactive two-day course that will address the challenges of evolving ESG regulations for banks, as they struggle to integrate changes into their risk management framework. Led by thought leader and strategic advisor, Tedd George (Kleos Advisory), this course will cover: 🌱 A background to #sustainability and #ESG ♻️ ESG approaches and materiality 🤝 How ESG risks impact businesses, clients and services in the #commoditytradefinance space 💹 ESG risks and the transition to a net-zero #carboneconomy 💱 The evolving ESG regulatory landscape for commodity trade Fully accredited by the London Institute of Banking & Finance, stay up to date with the latest industry standards, whilst gaining 7 CPD points! ⏰ Register before December 20 to secure a 10% discount Visit https://lnkd.in/eHesja-v or contact Elisabeth at espry@gtreview.com for more information and to book your place. #GTRTraining #GreenFinance #SustainableTrade #SustainableDevelopment #ESGIntegration #ESGRegulations #CorporateSocialResponsibility

That’s a wrap on #GTRAfrica 2024 in #London! We would like to give a massive thank you to our event chair, expert speakers and attendees who contributed to an electrifying day of insightful discussions and vibrant networking. During the day, over 60 industry leaders explored Africa’s infrastructure financing, working capital solutions for #SMEs, trade corridor realignment and priorities for managing sovereign debt. Discussions also focused on emerging and alternative climate financing tools, developing local lender capacity across Africa, and building value-added markets for soft and hard commodities at the domestic level. Thank you to all of our sponsors and partners - we couldn't have made the conference a success without you! Stay tuned for our post-event wrap up email and the event photos, which will be available soon. We hope to see you at our other events for this year and 2025: » November 27 - GTR Nordics 2024 Stockholm » February 18-19 - GTR MENA 2025 Dubai » March 13-14 - GTR Africa 2025 Cape Town » April 24-25 - GTR West Africa 2025 Lagos » May 14 - GTR India 2025 Mumbai » May 21-22 - GTR East Africa 2025 Nairobi Don't miss your chance to read the next GTR magazine and our latest edition of the GTR Directory. Visit https://lnkd.in/ef6aVCpD to see our past and current editions! #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastructureFinance

GTR Africa has solidified its place as the leading event for Africa’s #trade and #tradefinance community. On March 13-14, 2025, join us in #CapeTown for two days filled with essential insights across #trade, #supplychain, #infrastructure, #workingcapital, #export, and #commodity financing markets. This flagship conference will feature over 60 industry experts and around 600 delegates, making it a premier opportunity to engage with African trade leaders. Reconnect with familiar faces, and forge new, vital connections within the market. 🎟 Early Bird Discount: Save 10% when you book by February 1! 👥 Multi-Booking Savings: Groups from the same company enjoy a 15% discount. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this dynamic gathering. For details on the agenda, speakers, and more, visit gtreview.com/gtrafrica or email bookings@gtreview.com. Contact us for further opportunities: » Sponsorship Enquiries: Explore branding options 📧 sales@gtreview.com | ☎️ +44 (0)20 8772 3000 » Speaking Enquiries: Interested in sharing your expertise? 📧 content@gtreview.com | ☎️ +44 (0)20 8772 3000 » Press & Partnerships: For media and association enquiries 📧 marketing@gtreview.com | ☎️ +44 (0)20 8772 3006 #GTRAfrica2025 #GlobalTrade #Networking #TradeFinance #CapeTown

Influenced by a global landscape that continues to create shifts in trade openness, multilateral trade relations and #supplychain linkages, #Africa stands at a pivotal moment to reshape its trade relations. With deepening trade and investment ties between Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council (#GCC), the enlargement of the #BRICS to new African members and efforts by the #UK to expand #UK-Africa trade flow, the continent has a widening pool of partner options each with unique opportunities for trade finance and exports. As events across markets and geopolitics shift the centres of gravity for global trade this closing discussion at #GTRAfrica examined the outlook for African connections with traditional and emerging markets, and how wider trade finance links can be built. The panel considered how trade bloc splintering, the appeal of the BRICS, and emerging GCC-Africa trade corridors might unlock new opportunities for African exporters and infrastructure investment, as well as how GCC banks are filling the financer gaps left by exiting European banks. 🔊 Nastassia Arendse (Business Anchor, CNBC Africa) 🔊 Olukorede (K.O) Adenowo FCA (FirstBank UK Limited) 🔊 natasha abdulelah saleh (Abu Dhabi Exports Office (ADEX) 🔊 Mubarak Elegbede (International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) 🔊 Nicholas Oliver (Globespan Infrastructure Ltd) Thank you to those who joined us for the UK’s leading event charting Africa’s #trade, #export and #infrastructure trajectory from London. Follow GTR and event discussions at https://lnkd.in/ef8dASQF.   #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastructureFinance 

One of the often overlook regions on the African continent is #NorthAfrica, which despite a combination of inflationary pressures and the enduring circuit of debt, currency and liquidity crunches continues to show both trade and economic resilience. An exit of Western banks over the last decade has reinforced the role of local lenders as regional capacity providers, and as disruption in the Red Sea continues to impact Suez Canal revenues, the need for financing support and enabling new trade opportunities remains high.   This high-level discussion at #GTRAfrica this afternoon featuring industry experts Tedd George (Kleos Advisory UK), Amine Mouffok (BACB plc), Ime Ekong (Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada (EDC), Aden Nguyen (National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Carl Ellerington (Howden Group) considered the outlook for liquidity needs across #NorthAfrica and priorities for meeting the region’s finance challenges. Our expert speakers assessed: 💱 Macro pressure points and emerging solutions for servicing external debt, mitigating currency and #FX volatility, boosting local bank capacity for foreign currency and working capital facilities 💰 The trajectory of regional bank operations across North Africa 💼 ECA appetite in North Africa and the growing opportunities for energy project infrastructure, and strategies for mitigating credit and political risk for financiers and insurers Thank you to those who joined us at the #UK’s leading and unrivalled Africa-focused trade, export and infrastructure finance conference. Follow GTR and event discussions at https://lnkd.in/ef8dASQF. #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastructureFinance

The high interest rate environment and reticence to lend among global banks and #FIs remains a particular challenge for Africa, however the return of #Eurobond issuances is a welcome dose of optimism to bond and investor appetite, and Common Framework debt restructuring continues to offer respite to debt distressed economies. Structural factors to debt serviceability remain however, from credit downgrades and rising external debt stocks to high borrowing yields on Eurobonds. At #GTRAfrica this afternoon, esteemed panel members John Lentaigne (Tysers), Michael Doran (DLA Piper), Sujithav Sarangi (Standard Chartered) and Werner Grub (EIFO) examined reform priorities to sovereign debt architecture and what banks, multilaterals, and African governments would like to see from capital market reform. Topics of discussion included: 🔄 What was successful from recent restructuring deals and how these could be applied to future debt reform 💵 Potential trajectories of the ‘Africa Premium’ 🌐 A wish list for the reform of global sovereign credit architecture 🔗 How African nations can manage their debt sustainability against the spread of volatile commodity prices, hard currency liquidity shortages and political risk Thank you to those who joined us for the UK’s leading event charting Africa’s #trade, #export and #infrastructure trajectory from London. Follow GTR and event discussions at https://lnkd.in/ef8dASQF. #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastrcutureFinance #SovereignDebt #DebtResturcturing

Export credit transactions in Africa are rebounding, with $23 billion in new medium and long-term business in 2023, up from $14 billion in 2021 and $12 billion in 2022. This growth in syndicated loans reflects renewed confidence from global financial institutions and export credit agencies. However, the effects of recent #OECD Arrangement updates that extend repayment terms but raise tenor costs are yet to be fully understood, particularly regarding competition with non-OECD export creditors. This afternoon at #GTRAfrica, trade finance experts considered emerging project transaction and debt risk factors as well as the expanding role of local and regional African banks in ECA projects, and priorities for ensuring local firms and EPCs achieve greater representation. How the landscape of debt distressed and restructured economies might impact the spread of OECD financing across African markets was also explored. 🔊 Mark Norris (Sullivan & Worcester LLP) 🔊 Ram Shalita (Bluebird Finance and Projects Ltd.) 🔊 Aymeric Perrin-Guinot (RMB - Rand Merchant Bank) 🔊 Greg Fyfe (Standard Bank Group) 🔊 Katarina Hirsch (EKN Exportkreditnämnden) 🔊 Jan-Philipp Apking (Euler Hermes) Thank you to the attendees who lent in on this insightful panel in #London. Follow GTR and event discussions at https://lnkd.in/ef8dASQF. #GTRAfrica #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastructureFinance

Demand for #CPRI coverage experienced a strong return in 2023 across the African market, with expansion in both trade credit insurance and capacity for #MLT business on the rise. As capacity continues to target key areas for the market from commodity trade and food security to appetite for new players and a more diversified private insurance market, the landscape of #trade and political risk vectors is keeping capacity providers on their toes as challenges evolve across the continent. This afternoon at #GTRAfrica in #London explored emerging trends in insurance capacity demand and how shifting green shoots and flare points at the global and African level might influence capacity provisions. Leading trade professionals discussed sovereign debt and Eurobond market shifts affecting capacity spreads and insurer appetite, the evolution of trade credit facilities to meet liquidity and hard currency shortfalls, and the competition across Africa’s private insurance market influencing product offering and the growth of new players. Leading trade professionals: 🎙️ Alison Penfold (WTW) 🎙️ Lydia Allen (BPL) 🎙️ Caroline Coulson (Pernix Specialty Limited) 🎙️ Stuart Hulks (RMB - Rand Merchant Bank) 🎙️ Alastair Mcleod (Marsh Specialty) 🎙️ Nick Oxley (MS Amlin) Thank you to the attendees who lent in on this insightful discussion. Follow GTR and event discussions at https://lnkd.in/ef8dASQF. #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastructureFinance #PoliticalRisk

Accessible #workingcapital and trade credit liquidity is essential for African #SMEs and corporates, however with the continent’s trade finance gap growing, the supply of adequate resources is often in short supply. In a trade climate marked by volatility of currency rates, borrowing costs and hard currency, the need for quick and available credit services is key to meeting Africa’s domestic and global trade needs. Today, this expert-led session examined the solutions to address the trade finance gap and unlock working capital that meets African export needs, such as leveraging global capital pools to improve foreign currency access for SMEs, and developing open account products to overcome structural barriers in invoice and receivables finance. Priorities for leveraging cash flow and payment cycle solutions like supply chain finance and factoring were considered, as well as navigating legal and regulatory challenges and expanding digital credit solutions through collaboration between local banks and #FinTech’s, helping deliver innovation in payments and financing. Featured speakers: 📢 Florian Wicht (IFC - International Finance Corporation) 📢 George RR Wilson (Investec) 📢 Kuben Pillay (Absa Corporate and Investment Banking) 📢 Bob Blower (CertiQi) 📢 Nathalie Louat (IFC - International Finance Corporation) 📢 Sam West (Africa Global Trade Finance Ltd) Thank you to for joining us at the premier event in the #UK showcasing leading insights into African trade and exports. Follow GTR and event discussions at https://lnkd.in/ef8dASQF. #GTRAfrica #TradeFinance #ExportFinance #InfrastrcutureFinance