We gather our brightest minds to discuss best practices in complex deal restructurings and workouts for loans. What can be learnt from the aviation and cruise sectors? With many sectors struggling with the impact of Covid-19, renegotiation is necessary, meaning that ECAs banks, insurers, lawyers and corporate treasury teams will need to collaborate and understand the challenges others are facing in order to find mutually beneficial solutions for all. Our expert panel examines how ECAs are looking to deploy their countercyclical instruments quickly and effectively:

• Helping borrowers when creditworthiness evaporates, easing the burden for existing importers during times of duress
• A pillar to lean on: claims handling and pro-active extension agreements as pillars of the trade
• All necessary action is local: getting the ‘benefit message’ across to hard hit medium-sized borrowers and how to achieve low cost collateralisation that benefits all
• Friends indeed: experience at the receiving end during the crisis

Over the past few years, diversity has moved from a 'nice to have' to a 'need to have' within organisations – and these changes are the results of great leadership. In this session, we invite C-Level women to the stage to discuss:

• No career path in this industry is the same. What have our speakers' individual journeys through export finance looked like? 
• What are their key tips for younger people, especially women, looking at a career in export finance?
• Which topics or projects within export finance are most important to them?

Export finance offers an exciting career path, albeit one that can be years in the making. In this session, we gather a mix of new recruits and seasoned pros to discuss their journeys through export finance, focusing on why this is a worthwhile career path:

• How did our senior panelists get started in their careers, and why were our newer recruits attracted to this financial niche? 
• The opportunity to travel has long been an exciting pull for some interested in export finance. How will the move away from international travel impact new recruits?
• How do we ensure that new hirees are fully onboarded and offered the same opportunities as those who started before the world of work changed beyond recognition?

We delve deep into the TXF deals database, analysing closed deals from 2014-2020 and the pipeline of new opportunities, to highlight market trends, growth industries and challenges ahead. What can we learn from the deals that closed thus far during the pandemic? How badly will ECA volumes be impacted and how will the sector adapt?