📍Live at ITFA Split | What’s changing in trade credit insurance?

Insurers’ risk appetite has moved over the past 18 months. What does that mean for the banks relying on credit insurance to distribute risk and keep trade flowing?

Twelve months on from coalition buliding to implementation, TF COP’s ‘Solutions and Sandboxes’ session in Split showed four live pilots, each attacking a different part of the SME trade finance gap.

Despite the new SEC rules mandating central clearing for eligible Repo transactions set to come into force in June 2027, the industry retains concerns. Issues include finalised netting opinions, inter-affiliate exemptions, extraterritorial scope, cross-product netting, cross-margining, and bank capital/netting rules, all of which still have to be addressed.

Visa has announced a pioneering approach to onchain credit designed to help stablecoin-linked card programs and fintechs companies access working capital by leveraging onchain lending infrastructure combined with Visa data.

Traditional inventory finance is a funding solution businesses (namely, manufacturers and merchandisers) use to monetise their physical goods, raw materials, or finished products.

Trade Treasury Payments and LIBF have announced a global strategic education partnership designed to support the next generation of professionals across trade, treasury and payments.

The partnership brings together TTP’s industry expertise and LIBF’s established education capabilities, creating opportunities to connect practical industry knowledge with professional learning and development.

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) is pleased to welcome Clarissa Dann to our editorial team as co-host of TTP Studios.

With more than four decades of experience in business and financial journalism, Clarissa brings deep expertise and a long-standing connection to the trade finance community. From her time at Deutsche Bank and Trade & Forfaiting Review to Trade Finance TV, she has built a career around asking the questions that matter.

Trade Treasury Payments presents Issue 05 Fine Print, a publication exploring the deeper forces shaping global trade, treasury and payments at a time of rapid change across financial markets. This edition looks beyond surface level headlines to examine the structural realities influencing liquidity, cross border finance, payment systems and risk management. Through expert analysis and industry reporting, it highlights how finance professionals are navigating an increasingly complex environment where regulation, digital infrastructure and global economic uncertainty continue to reshape decision making.

The issue brings together a broad range of perspectives on the future of trade finance, treasury operations and payment innovation, covering subjects such as digital trade adoption, foreign exchange risk, fraud prevention, supply chain finance, private credit and the evolving legal frameworks surrounding modern financial instruments. With coverage spanning global markets and emerging economies, the publication offers practical insight into the trends, challenges and strategic shifts defining the future of real economy finance in 2026.