Is Digitalisation Closing the Unfunded Trade Finance Gap, or Making Things Worse?
When: December 1, 2026 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM GMTNext Month
Location: Sullivan and TTP Breakfast Club
 

The Lansdowne Club, W1
London, UK

People: Geoffrey Wynne and Matthew P. Cox

Partner Geoffrey Wynne will moderate a panel discussion titled "Is Digitalisation Closing the Unfunded Trade Finance Gap, or Making Things Worse?" at Sullivan and Trade Treasury Payments’ (TTP) latest co-hosted Trade and Commodity Finance Breakfast Club, on Tuesday, 1 December, 2026 at The Lansdowne Club in London. Partner Matthew Cox will also participate as a panelist. 

Trade finance still fails to reach many of the businesses that need it most, particularly smaller firms and those in emerging markets. Digitalisation has long been promised as part of the answer: electronic trade documents, new platforms and data-driven credit decisions. But is it widening access to finance, or simply it easier and cheaper to serve the clients banks already have? Could fragmented platforms and standards even make the gap harder to close?

The Trade and Commodities Finance Breakfast Club panel will include:

  • Deepesh Patel, Managing Director and Editor-In-Chief, Trade Treasury Payments (Host)
  • Geoffrey Wynne, Partner, Sullivan (Moderator)
  • Anis Ahsan,  Head of Trade Finance Operations, Ghana International Bank PLC
  • Marina Comninos, Co-Head, ICE Digital Trade
  • Matthew Cox, Partner, Sullivan & Worcester
  • Oswald Kuyler, Senior Digital Trade Advisor, Asian Development Bank
  • Anthony Wadsworth-Hill, Group Deputy CEO, Mercore