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Making Trade Finance Assets a More Attractive Investment
When: October 15, 2025
Location: TTP Breakfast Club
 

London, UK

People: Geoffrey Wynne and Matthew P. Cox

Geoffrey Wynne and Matthew Cox participated in the panel discussion "Making Trade Finance Assets a More Attractive Investment" at the Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) Breakfast Club on October 15, 2025, at The Lansdowne Club in London. Sullivan also serves as the event sponsor.

Following the success of the inaugural TTP / Sullivan Breakfast Club in July, this roundtable examined what it takes to scale trade finance as an institutional asset class. Held under the Chatham House Rule, the breakfast session convened senior representatives from banking, non-bank finance, underwriting, and legal practice to interrogate the regulatory, structural, and technological dynamics shaping the market’s evolution.

Discussions tested the investability thesis in detail: short-tenor, self-liquidating instruments with consistently low default experience; the role of insurance and securitisation in creating capital-efficient, rated exposures; and the emergence of credible secondary markets. The session will map a trajectory for trade finance to move beyond its historical characterisation as a niche credit product and establish itself as a standardised, benchmarked component of mainstream institutional portfolios.

The panel of speakers included:

  • Geoffrey Wynne, Sullivan & Worcester (Moderator)
  • Ramadurai Krishnan, Global Credit Data Consortium (GCD) (Panelist)
  • Alisa Rusanoff, Eltech.ai (Panelist)
  • NLN Swaroop, HSBC / ITFA (Panelist)
  • Matthew Cox, Sullivan & Worcester (Panelist)
  • Sarah Boyce, Association of Corporate Treasurers (Panelist)