Export finance leaders are invited to outline their vision of how the export credit industry will evolve over the medium to long term:

• The impact of the pandemic on current and future books for banks and ECAs
• Evaluation of ongoing ECA responses to the crisis, workouts and restructurings
• Lessons from worst hit industries – cruise and aviation
• New product lines, initiatives to support exporters and customers and future demand for cover
• Sustainability, social impact and financing energy transition
• Market for newly ECA-covered industries including EV and battery storage
• Advocacy efforts for changing the OECD Consensus, local content rules and the dream landscape for ECAs to operate
• Untied lending and comparison of European and Asian ECAs
• Effect on ECA capacity of non-performing loans, defaults, CPRI market retraction and sovereign downgrades
• The pandemic as a driver for digitisation and increased accessibility for new customers, industries and SMEs

This panel will provide vital updates to export and project finance professionals in the region. Much has occurred since 2020 kicked off. Clients have called for greater flexibility from their home country ECAs to remain competitive and continue projects that have been put on hold. We will zoom into the differences between OECD and non-OECD bound ECAs levels of inventiveness and investments in technological innovation. How can those ECAs bound to the OECD consensus provide a more flexible product offering? Will the increase in ECA financing match that of the post-recession in 2008/09? That changes have been made to their product offerings? Are ECAs able to continue offering the longer tenors their competitors are unable to?