GTR Trade Insights

GTR Trade Insights: Doing Business in the UAE

In this episode of the GTR Trade Insights podcast, we speak to the team at Citi about the factors that make the UAE a high growth market.

Among these are its business-friendly environment, strategic location as a global trading hub, world-class infrastructure, and favourable government policies in promoting trade and investment, as discussed in this conversation with Yusuf Ali Khan, Trade Head for Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan; Mohammad Zubair, UAE Trade Head; and Yali Wang, China: UAE Corridor Transactor at Citi.

Citi has partnered with GTR on a series of articles aimed at companies wanting to set up in, and engage in cross-border trade with, high-growth, complex markets. In the GTR Trade Insights podcast, we speak to the experts behind these articles about what they’re seeing on the ground.

To read the Doing Business in the UAE article, follow this link.

GTR Trade Insights: Sustainability, Beyond the Buzzword

This GTR Trade Insights podcast features a conversation with Bruno Francois and Françoise Neuville, two BNP Paribas representatives, who provide an overview of some of the recent developments in the sustainable trade finance space, and the ways in which they’re seeing sustainability being embedded into clients’ business.

The discussion – moderated by GTR’s editorial director Shannon Manders – is the follow-up to the first instalment of a recent BNP Paribas/GTR content series called the “Trade Innovation Lab”, which focuses on particular areas of innovation within trade and trade finance.

Bruno Francois is the bank’s deputy global head of trade finance, and Françoise Neuville the head of the trade expertise desk and sustainable trade coordinator, and this conversation references and builds on their contributions to the article entitled “Sustainability: Beyond the buzzword”, which appears in the GTR Q2 issue.

 

GTR Trade Insights: Doing Business in India

In the first episode of the new GTR Trade Insights podcast, Mayank Gupta, Head of Trade, Treasury and Trade Solutions, South Asia at Citi, speaks to GTR’s editorial director Shannon Manders about the practicalities and complexities of doing business in India.

In partnership with GTR, Citi has recently launched a series of articles aimed at companies wanting to set up in, and engage in cross-border trade with, high-growth, complex markets. In the GTR Trade Insights podcast, we’ll be speaking to the experts behind these articles about what they’re seeing on the ground.

This first instalment focuses on India and provides an overview of recent economic and governmental developments – including measures announced in the recent budget – that make the country a compelling market in which to do business. It also examines how India’s trade environment has responded to these developments, and how trade opportunities can be harnessed going forward.

Introducing GTR Trade Insights

In this short trailer we announce the launch of our latest podcast series, GTR Trade Insights.

This new podcast brings to life feature articles published in the GTR magazine and on the GTR site, written either by one of our partners or by GTR’s in-house editorial team, and discussing some of the main trends in trade and trade finance.

In these episodes, we’ll speak to the expert authors and sources of these articles to get the inside track on these burning issues.

From the challenges and opportunities for international companies in fast-growing export markets, to the work being done by banks to ensure supply chains are more sustainable – the Trade Insights podcast will offer a new, and engaging way to stay up to date with the latest developments in the trade and trade finance space.

Stay tuned for the first episode of the GTR Trade Insights podcast, coming soon.