Making Trade Finance Cheaper and More Accessible | Half-Day Conference | 25 March 2025
This half-day conference features a series of informative sessions led by the ICC United Kingdom Trade Finance Committee. Designed for trade finance experts, policymakers, regulators, corporate finance and treasury teams and solution providers.
NEW EVENT FORMAT! The purpose of the event is to open up access to ICC expertise, promote wider awareness of ICC’s trade finance priorities and establish a more strategic, coordinated approach to multilateral engagement, advocacy, scaling up market solutions and sharing of international best practice. The event is now open to all. It is free for ICC members and ticketed for non-members.
Registration & Networking
Welcome
Parvaiz Dalal, Chair, UK Trade Finance Committee, Citi
Fireside chat: Financing for Growth
This session will be an informal, interview style session with global trade finance leaders and heads of trade from some of the largest trade banks. We’ll look at the key challenges facing the industry as well as opportunities and priorities for 2025.
Interviewer:
Parvaiz Dalal, Chair, UK Trade Finance Committee, Citi
Panelists:
Surath Sengupta, SteerCo, ICC Banking Commission, Lloyds
Bhriguraj Singh, SteerCo, ICC Banking Commission, HSBC
2025 Trade Finance Programme
This session will provide all the latest market insights and developments at global and UK level, set out the ICC United Kingdom’s programme priorities, opportunities to get involved, next steps, as well as time for a Q&A.
Speakers:
Tomasch Kubiak – ICC Banking Commission, Policy Manager, ICC
Chris Southworth – UK Committee / Trade Digitalisation Taskforce / Solution Providers Working Group / iC4DTI, Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom
Regulating for Growth
2025 offers some unique reform opportunities to establish a more competitive, agile regulatory framework to reduce barriers, streamline processes and improve access to trade finance. This session will be a deep dive into regulatory developments, reform recommendations to government and opportunities to support efforts. The discussion will include US/UK decisions on Basel III, next steps to streamline KYC processes, the implementation of digital identities, fraud prevention and what to expect from the UK International Trade Strategy. The session will include the latest insights from the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) and Trade Digitalisation Taskforce.
Moderator:
Chris Southworth, Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom
Panelists:
Kaushika Ruwangalla, Global Head of Compliance – Platforms, HSBC
Nicole Sadler, Head of Corporate Regulatory Affairs, Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT)
Geoffrey Wynne, Head of Sullivan & Worcester’s London office and its Trade and Export Finance Group
Jaya Vohra, co-Chair, Trade Digitalisation Taskforce, Managing Director, Barclays
Closing Remarks
Parvaiz Dalal, Chair, UK Trade Finance Committee, Citi