Highly recommend Treasury360 and PostTrade360 events - 2023 was good and 2024 was the best conference of the year by far in a fantastic location and hit every target - informing, challenging, networking and resulting in actionable outcomes too.
Hope to see you in 2025
We are super proud to hereby announce 2025’s opening speaker!
If negotiating trade barriers with Donald Trump – in person at the White House – is a token of seniority, our keynoter has it. For a geopolitical and trade-perspective outlook at the world, let us be guided in the morning of 22 May by ten-year European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström.
Click to read more and sign up to join in Stockholm – it’s even FREE for treasury pros and a total of 800 delegates or so is expected! The day then continues with the rich dedicated treasury-function stuff, through over 20 sessions across six parallel tracks. Bring your team for a collective competence boost!
📢 ANNOUNCING: The launch of a special webpage that delves into the trade/investment relationship between the EU and United States.
Finally, one place to see how your state benefits from trade with the EU — including jobs created.
Explore today ➡️ https://bit.ly/4cEMmf0
Discover the latest insights on CETA's five-year journey in trade and dispute resolution between Canada and the EU. Explore our newest article to stay informed on these significant developments.
Recommended reading: Compilation of congressional statements on cross-border data & digital trade from last week's trade hearings. Thanks to Jonathan McHale for pulling this together.
Sen. Wyden: "I take a backseat to no one when it comes to privacy, security, and antitrust enforcement. ... [W]e must also push for digital trade rules that will protect the free and open internet, help small businesses, and push back on China’s model of digital surveillance and censorship... [T]hese policies like forced localization are just poison for small businesses. ..."
Sen. Carper: “In February this year, the [ACLU, Freedom House and others] ... sent a letter expressing concern with the [US] decision to withdraw from the key digital commitments at the [WTO]. That letter outlines the impact of digital trade across sectors, and the importance of ensuring that the US has a seat at the table in order to help write the rules of the road, both for creators and small and medium-sized businesses that must adapt to the changing digital landscape.”
Sen. Crapo: “Simply abandoning coordinated and reasoned [trade negotiating] proposals without consulting Congress—is a profound mistake.”
Sen. Grassley: “Our competitors repeatedly seek to discriminate against US companies and impede access to their markets, yet the Biden Administration has pulled back from negotiations on digital services trade and rejected long-term, long-held bipartisan principles against discriminatory practices of our partners. USTR has abdicated its leadership role in this important issue.”
Sen. Blackburn: "[USTR] might think the change [on digital trade] is going after ‘big tech,’ but what you’re doing is really hurting countless small businesses. ... [I]nternational agreements on digital trade do not preclude countries from passing privacy laws. You can look at the EU, you can look at GDPR, you can look at New Zealand, you can look at Canada, you can look at Australia, so that is an excuse and not an accura[te statement].”
Sen. Young: "Under your leadership, USTR is diminishing our role in defending open digital trade rules, to put it pointedly.”
Sen. Thune: "It seems like we have abdicated our role as a leader on digital trade and very quickly allowing China to step into the gap.”
Rep. DelBene: “Trade is critical for Washington state’s economy. More than 40% of our jobs are tied to trade… I do worry we are not doing enough to negotiate trade rules that are commercially meaningful, enforceable, supported by Congress, and reflective of the modern-day challenges
we face as a nation.”
Rep. Lahood: “[T]his administration sends mixed messages on the global stage by walking back long-held bipartisan digital trade proposals outlined at the WTO without clearly articulating a policy path forward."
Rep. Panetta: "We want to make sure that we are a part of the economic integration that is going on right now, ... especially as China tries to fill that void with its being a part of the CPTPP and RCEP.”
Feargal de Freine Partner and Head of FDI at EY Ireland discusses the importance of the two-way trade relationship between Ireland and the US in this Thanksgiving Special Report in The Irish Times.
Read the full piece here - https://lnkd.in/e3VRU3yU
Feargal de Freine Partner and Head of FDI at EY Ireland discusses the importance of the two-way trade relationship between Ireland and the US in this Thanksgiving Special Report in The Irish Times.
Read the full piece here - https://lnkd.in/etyu-bC8
I am looking forward to how his G7 counterparts respond to the Business and Trade Secretary's speech. There is plenty for governments and businesses to be doing to improve market confidence and growth. https://lnkd.in/eDEbAz4S
Feargal de Freine Partner and Head of FDI at EY Ireland discusses the importance of the two-way trade relationship between Ireland and the US in this Thanksgiving Special Report in The Irish Times.
Read the full piece here - https://lnkd.in/eajWKNSz
Feargal de Freine Partner and Head of FDI at EY Ireland discusses the importance of the two-way trade relationship between Ireland and the US in this Thanksgiving Special Report in The Irish Times.
Read the full piece here - https://lnkd.in/g33rXAPZ
Feargal de Freine Partner and Head of FDI at EY Ireland discusses the importance of the two-way trade relationship between Ireland and the US in this Thanksgiving Special Report in The Irish Times.
Read the full piece here - https://lnkd.in/eyxDQF47
🇺🇸 ICYMI, we just did an emergency broadcast on Trade Finance Talks TV, featuring commentary on Trump's win, and how the US election results may impact global trade, trade credit risk and insurance, trade policy, and supply chains.
💵 A mandate of massive tax cuts, protectionism to ‘protect American jobs and industries’ has evidently been popular with Trump, so we dived into what this could mean for trade flows, investment and currency (mostly USD).
I was joined by industry heavyweights Rebecca Harding, Robert Besseling, Dr Alisa DiCaprio and Simon Evenett to cover:
- How Trump’s trade policy differs from Biden’s (if at all).
- US-China trade relations and economic wargaming - how increasing tariffs on 818 categories of Chinese goods impacts 2025 policy.
- How a second Trump presidency could impact trade relations between the US and Africa and the Middle East.
- What the decline of multilateral trade agreements means for ongoing negotiations and existing trade pacts (think: withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and replacing NAFTA with the USMCA agreement).
- Money markets: with US stocks surging and European renewable stocks falling, how Trump’s stance on climate change and energy policy might impact global commodity markets and trade flows.
- What we can expect Trump’s impact to be, on trade and SCF.
- What regions are likely to be singled out from a more combative trade policy, and what methods there are for assessing and monitoring as the effects of Trump become realised.
- The impact of protectionist trade on currency markets and international capital flows.
Watch the replay here:
