Tackling the trade finance talent gap and ESG-linked SCF pricing

Introducing GTR Changemakers, the latest podcast from Global Trade Review’s editorial team, in which host Felix Thompson speaks in-depth with the personalities behind some of the major shifts in the industry.  

The series will feature a diverse range of interviewees from across the trade finance sector and will cover a variety of topics, not least digitalisation, the growth of ESG-focused products, as well as efforts to make trade finance an attractive sector to young professionals at the start of their careers.  

In this episode, GTR speaks with two of the finalists from ITFA’s emerging trade financier competition, Charlotte Russo and Ruby Zhou, about their award-winning projects and what motivated them to investigate their topics of choice.

Charlotte Russo delved into the long-standing issue of the trade finance talent gap and Ruby Zhou examined how greater uniformity and standards could be introduced into ESG-linked supply chain finance pricing.