A lively session bringing together global heads from our partner banks for a fast-paced Oxford-style debate on the defining issues shaping today’s export finance market. Expect strong opinions and controversial arguments around sector and regional priorities, defence finance, sustainability credibility, longer tenors, pricing pressure, and flatlining volumes. 

The debate will tackle the future of ECA banking itself: competition versus collaboration, the rise of Asian lenders, and whether the current export finance model remains fit for an increasingly fragmented, politically charged, and demanding global market.

Please note that the views expressed are those of the individual speakers and not necessarily the institutions they represent. Expect a true tour de force of debating from some of the most senior figures in the industry.

The winning team will be decided by audience vote. 🏆

Closing the trade and infrastructure finance gap demands new investors, but institutional capital requires credit enhancement. At the same time, private credit is reshaping how assets are financed, distributed, and held. This session examines how insurance wraps, MDB guarantees, structured products, and private credit vehicles are creating investable assets and unlocking new demand.

·       How insurance wraps and credit enhancements are making trade and infrastructure assets investable for pension funds and asset managers

·       How MDB securitisation vehicles use insurance and guarantees to de-risk portfolios and attract new investor classes

·       How private credit funds are using CPRI to enhance returns, secure ratings, and attract institutional co-investors

·       How insurers are underwriting private credit risk differently from traditional bank exposures and the risk dynamics when deals go wrong

·       The broker's evolving role in connecting originators, insurers, and institutional investors in structured distribution

·       Which insured asset classes, geographies, and tenors are generating the strongest investor pull