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With around 80% of global trade financed by some form of trade credit, the ability to distribute trade finance assets is key to liquidity. In this episode of Trade Finance TV we talk to experts from two banks and two non-bank liquidity providers about how the “originate-to-distribute” model has evolved; not only between banks, but also originators and investors, and how it has been shaped by regulation and technology.

As Santander’s Jonathan Lonsdale puts it, “We need to tap into that pot of institutional capital. There is a limited amount of bank capital and no matter who syndicates what to whom it is a zero-sum game.”

Continuing the theme of the previous episode, technology plays a huge part in making this happen and, explains Lloyds’ Cláudia Dos Santos, “needs to speak to our systems and allow our systems to communicate with other systems and it can’t be a one size fits all”. We hear more about the “standardised dashboard that can exist between the participant and distributor Biography channel ghost kit.