Digital Transformation of Global Trade Logistics: AI, Blockchain, IoT devices, Machine Learning (ML), Robotics Process Automation, (RPA), TradeLens are transforming the industry.

Mr. Kris Kosmala, Partner, Click & Connect, Australia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kriskosmala/) talks to Venkat S N about Success,  Opportunities, and Challenges as Global Trade Logistics and Supply Chain undergoes a Digital Transformation the world over. The discussion includes questions from senior industry leaders.  

Kris has worked with shipping lines, ports and logistics providers in Asia, North America, South America and Europe applying innovative information technologies to improve efficiency of shipping and logistics operations, improve net margin contributions from operations, and to reduce the environmental impacts of the industry.

Timeline and Topics Discussed

0:00 Introduction

1:35 Supply Chain disruptions in next 6-12 months

8:45 Are Digital Transformation projects truly end-to-end?

11:10 IoT Devices – Implemented in Electronics, Pharma, other high value supply chains

16:17 Regional CO2 footprint using IoT devices

19:28 What is Machine Learning (ML)

21:25 Machine Learning (ML) applications in Warehousing

24:20 Machine Learning (ML) applications Ports and Terminals

27:00 Machine Learning (ML) applications in Road Transport and Shipping

29:42 IBM-Maersk TradeLens – What does it Offer?

36:35 Robotics Process Automation (RPA) reduces cost for Singapore and Melbourne ports

40:45 Digital Twin very costly and challenging for global supply chain and logistics

44:40 Blockchains implemented by Unilever, DeBeers, Walmart, Alibaba

47:00 Weakness of Blockchains

48:17 Security and Fraud in digital supply chain

51:49 What jobs will be replaced by supply chain automation

54:33 Career Strategies for fresh graduates and young supply chain professionals

57:10 Can AI predict and prescribe strategies in uncertainties like pandemics and political upheavals (#VUCA situations)

1:05:45 Closing comments

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Brainscapes: “Human brain is a collection of maps - detailed representations, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to our survival. They shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality .” Interview with Dr Rebecca Schwarzlose, neuroscientist and author.

Topics discussed and timeline

1.    Why Brain Maps are important? 2:00 min

2.    How our brain maps what we see? 4:00 min

3.     What’s the impact of impact of NOT seeing many faces, noses, lips, and facial expressions, on the development of infant brain maps in the pandemic years? 7:45 min

4.    Teenagers can hear sounds that their teacher can’t. 11:40 min

5.    Why we lose the ability to hear certain sounds as we grow older 12:30 min

6.    How are Bitter, Sweet, Salty tastes mapped in the brain? 15:30, 16:30 min

7.    Baby in the womb has information about the outside world already etched into its brain. 23:10 min

8.    What should parents do in the first couple of years of an infant’s life? 27:55 min

9.    Double decker bus blows a baby’s mind away 31:00 min

10. Brainscapes shape and distort the contents of your dreams, memories, and fantasies 34:15 min

11. False memories are very common 36:45 min

12. Brain computer interfaces, BCIs. 37:35 min

13. Scientists eavesdropped on a brain and reconstructed the specific human faces a subject is seeing, fairly accurately 38:45 min

14. Humans with electrodes in the brain - medical assistance 40:40 min

15. Brain activity monitoring general applications – 41:40 min

16. Big Tech and gathering our personal neural data – 42:50 min

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Spirituality Protects Against Depression, MRI shows - Dr. Lisa Miller, Author of The Awakened Brain in conversation with Venkat.

“We are all Spiritual beings”, “ Child is born a knower, a spiritual knower” says Dr. Lisa Miller, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University. and the Founder of the Spirituality, Mind, Body Institute.

Dr. Miller found MRI evidence that spirituality offers protection against depression. In her recently published book The Awakened Brain, she brings to light scientific evidence from her own award-winning work and those of others, backed by MRI studies, genetic research, and so on, to illuminate the science of spirituality.

Topics, Quotes and Timings:

1.    Researching on brains of people with higher spiritual practice and those with low or no spiritual practice 2:10 min

2.    We are all Spiritual Beings 4:18min

3.    There are threads of lived human spiritual life that are absolutely game changing on the rest of our lives. 4:32 min

4.    We have a strong Spiritual Core 5:10 min

5.    Significance of an Olympian state of mind 5:29 min

6.    You are Everything, You are That 11:27 min

7.    The Child is born a knower, a spiritual knower 14:13 min

8.    The capacity through which we experience the Transcendent Reality is 1/3rd innate, and 2/3rds environmentally formed 14:58 min

9.    Prayer, meditation, whether it is right action ... we are constantly shaping this innate capacity 15:30 min

10. Patterns in the brain structures of the depressed and the not depressed 16:27 min

11. When there is a strong spiritual life in the child who grows up to be a parent, that person is 90% less likely to carry forward the family struggle with depression. 18:20 min

12. When mother and child were both high in spirituality, the child was 80 percent protected against depression 23:22 min

13. How effective was spirituality compared to medicines and other treatments for depression? 23:43 min

14. Spirituality was nearly twice as protective in teens 24:45 min

15. Do we see physical evidence in the brain that spirituality offers protection? 26:11 min

16. People with a spiritual practice get protected when they face subsequent depressing events 28:30

17. Awakened awareness – 3 aspects 30:43 min

18. Two kinds of awareness we need 31:45 min

19. There is some genetic contribution to spirituality – evidence from twin-studies 37:30 min

20. What should we do in our daily lives so that it is our awakened brain that is dominant? 44:10 min

21. A study of 5500 participants in India, China, USA – people shared 5 common phenotypes 50:11 min

The book is available at https://www.amazon.com/Awakened-Brain-Science-Spirituality-Inspired/dp/198485562X

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Wealth Protection, Tax Avoidance, Real Estate, and a Tax Haven in USA?

Ms Lakshmi Kumar, Policy Director at Global Financial Integrity (GFI) and co-author of the GFI’s report, “Acres of Money Laundering: Why U.S. Real Estate is a Kleptocrat’s Dream” talks to Venkat SN about the structures and mechanisms the wealthy use to protect or hide their wealth.  

The discussion covers Pandora papers and South Dakota, a fugitive jeweler from India, attraction of overseas real estate, and gold in international transactions.

Topics and timings:

What is the difference between Tax avoidance and tax evasion? (1:25min)

What is wealth protection? What structures and mechanisms the wealthy use to protect their wealth from being taxed? (2:43min)

Pandora papers revealed that South Dakota was a $367bn tax haven rivalling other famous tax havens. What makes it an attractive location? (5:40min)

Are U.S. regulations for politically exposed persons, or others, not in line with international best practices? (9:35min)

Why is overseas real estate a preferred route? (12:53min)

What are the secret real estate ownership structures that the US offers? How are all cash purchases of real estate even possible? (15:05min)

What kind of international transactions take place with gold? (18:40min)

A fugitive jeweler from India has apartments in New York held in the name of a trust whose beneficiaries are his family (22:30min)

On the G20 agreement global minimum corporate tax of 15%. (25:07min)

Correction: In the introduction, “Global Financial Integrity” was referred to as “Global Financial Intelligence”. The error is regretted.

Links - Acres of Money Laundering: Why U.S. Real Estate is a Kleptocrat’s Dream - https://gfintegrity.org/report/acres-...

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SMU Spartan: Why join a new university, SMU, and not a 100-year-old one?

Nadir Zafar was one of the 300 students who joined SMU when it opened in 2000. He had turned down an offer to study engineering in NUS.

Twenty-one years later Nadir shares with Venkat how SMU influenced and shaped him both inside and outside the classroom, through internships and overseas experiences. How his pioneer batch started student clubs, the student council, and the alumni association and even created an Alumni Scholarship Fund when they graduated.

His friends from JC had warned him that he may not get a good job if he studied in a new university. Nadir had 8 job offers when he graduated from SMU! A self-confessed SMU fan, he even encouraged his siblings to study in SMU.

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5th Commodity Super Cycle! Why Sugar prices doubled in last 18 months?

5th Commodity Super Cycle will be driven by Decarbonization, electrification, demand for metals like copper, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, etc. says Mr. Viren Verma, Managing Director (Sugar and Commodity Risk Management), Global Strategic Procurement, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, USA. Viren is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

We discussed:

1.    Decarbonization, electrification, demand for metals, and commodity super cycle! (2:00 min)

2.    We will have a 7 million tons deficit of copper, by 2030 (5:00min)

3.    Commodities will be the next asset class that will attract investments (7:45min)

4.    What’s driving this rally in sugar? (9:00min)

5.    Is the volatility of the Brazilian Real reflected in the sugar price movements or Brazilian sugar exports? (9:55min)

6.    Has demand for sugarcane from Brazil’s Ethanol industry impacted the supply to the sugar industry? (11:40 min)

7.    India exported over 7 million tons of sugar in the season ending Sep 2021 despite cutting sugar export subsidies by 31%. Will India withdraw its export subsidy for sugar? (15:05 min)

8.    Outlook for 2022-23 and next 5 years. In the long-term, current electrification drive can have a downward pressure on Sugar prices. (22:25min)

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Correction : The Russian Nordstream 2 gas pipeline will go through the south of Ukraine, the Black Sea, Austria, and Serbia before reaching Hungary. It will not go through Ukraine as mentioned in the interview.

The Future of the Office: Hard Choices - Work from Home or Office; Prof. Peter Cappelli in conversation with Venkat SN, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, and Professor of Management at The Wharton School, Peter Cappelli, explains the hard choices employees and employers face in deciding between home/office/hybrid working.

He explores the issue in his new book, “The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face”.

Topics and timings

1.    The Future Forum Pulse survey, which surveyed over 10,500 knowledge workers (01:20 min)

2.    Things did not go well for remote employees in the 1990s, 2000s. Will they be different now? (5:35 min)

3.    How did Team Members, and Managers learn to adapt to working with remote teams during the pandemic? What can we learn from that? (9:00 min)

4.     Long-term impact of remote work on ‘informal’ skill development process, and mentoring? (14:55 min)

5.    Can innovative teamwork / maker, creator teamwork be done remotely? (17:20 min)

6.    Impact of remote working on social interaction, bonding, mental and social well-being. (20:20 min)

7.    If one is offered the opportunity to work from home, should one take it? What if you are a fresh graduate? (22:20 min)

8.    On companies that want to install screen and keyboard monitoring software in remote worker’s computers. (23:45 min and 25:10 min)

9.    Importance of supportive supervisors. (24:30 min)

10. If companies do want to implement remote work, what all should they pay attention to engage with their employees? (27:00 min)

11. Re-onboard the employees returning back to the office (31:35 min)

12. Working women were disproportionately affected during the pandemic even though in theory working from home should have given them better work-life balance. What can be done to make it better for them? (34:35 min)

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DeFi and the Future of Finance: Bitcoin, Crypto, Ethereum, NFT, Blockchain explained.

DeFi is beyond Fintech as we know.

Prof. Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, talks to Venkat SN, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University about his just released book, "DeFi and the Future of Finance"*.

In this conversation Prof. Harvey explains how Decentralized Finance solves the problems of traditional finance, technology risks and regulatory risks of DeFi, and how you can take a collateralized DeFi loan. For the curious he gives a primer on Bitcoin, Crypto, Ethereum, Stablecoin, NFT, etc. 

Prof. Harvey is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Investment Strategy Advisor to the Man Group plc, the world’s largest, publicly listed, global hedge fund provider.

Topics discussed and start times:

1.    What is Decentralized Finance or DeFi (3:15 min)

2.    How Decentralized Finance solves the problems of traditional finance (7:00 min)

3.    Value proposition of bitcoin (19:00 min)

4.    How’s Ethereum different? And what is “gas fee” for Ethereum? (22:55 min)

5.    What are Stablecoins? (Some can be redeemed 1:1 for USD) (27:00 min)

6.    Risks in DeFi. Crypto exchanges hacked, but DeFi is even Quantum Proof! (34:00 min)

7.    China’s digital yuan, crypto-currency ban - regulatory risks facing DeFi (43:38 min)

8.    Fungible Tokens and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Your $ is fungible, your land is non-fungible. (53:20 min)

9.    Can a person take a DeFi loan on their house / collateral? Yes, here’s how. (55:30 min)

10. Enforcing repayment in the event of a loan default (1:01:40 min)

11. Smart Contracts substantially eases the threat of legal burdens (1:03:45 min)

12. DeFi can help the underbanked and unbanked around the world (1:08:11 min)

*Link to Prof. Harvey's book: https://www.amazon.com/DeFi-Future-Finance-Campbell-Harvey/dp/1119836018/ref=sr_1_3

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Coal and Electricity Production in China will be tight till Chinese New Year – Sabyasachi Mishra

Global dependence on coal will reduce significantly over the next 15 years.

Sabyasachi Mishra, Business Head at JSW International Tradecorp, Singapore explains why coal prices are at historical highs. He was the former Head of Business Development at Tata International in Singapore.

In this wide-ranging conversation, he covered:

• The types of coal, the global and regional trade flows in coal

• Why have coal prices more than doubled since May 2021?

• The impact on coal trade flows from the impasse between China and Australia.

• Indian companies picking up millions of tons of discharged Australian coal (different grades) from Chinese ports at a $12 to $50 a ton discount

• How will coal and power shortages in China and India pan out? (China- Wait for Chinese New Year!)

• Indian Electricity Purchase Prices from power plants need to be reviewed.

• Renewables yet to substitute coal as a dependable energy source

• How long will we be dependent on coal for energy?

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Credits:

Coal production, consumption and trade statistics and infographics from IEA (2020), Coal 2020, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2020

How Electricity is Made infographic from World Coal Association https://www.worldcoal.org/coal-facts/...

Steel Production infographic from World Coal Association https://www.worldcoal.org/coal-facts/...

See Sooner, Act Faster

Prof. George S Day, Professor Emeritus of Wharton Business School, talks to Venkat SN, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University on proven strategies to thrive in an era of Digital Turbulence.

In Part 2 of a detailed discussion based on his recent book See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital Turbulence, (https://www.amazon.com/See-Sooner-Act...), Prof. Day explains:

How Adobe reinvented its strategy for the digital future? What can we learn from Shantanu Narayen’s leadership, and approach to formulating strategy in this era? (from 0:15 min)

In the digital era, how can leaders sense weak signals, and then act on them, before rivals respond? (from 4:45 min)

GE Healthcare in India and China - Reverse Innovation (from 11:15 min)

Thinking in terms of future scenarios - Include at least one unthinkable or hard to believe scenario. How Philips prepared for the future of LED lighting? (from 14:45 min) (Use of guiding questions in scenario planning discussed here)

What should organizations do when a new technology shows up in a hype cycle? (from 20:30 min)

Willful Blindness of Facebook - ignoring problems, and not dealing with uncomfortable information (from 24:45 min)

Recommendations to organizational leaders in an era of Digital Turbulence (from 28:20 min)

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See Sooner, Act Faster

Prof. George S Day, Professor Emeritus of Wharton Business School, talks to Venkat SN, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University on proven strategies to thrive in an era of Digital Turbulence.

In a detailed discussion based on his recent book See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital Turbulence, (https://www.amazon.com/See-Sooner-Act...), Prof. Day explains:

Why Outside in Thinking is a better way to create value for the customer, and the company (from 3:40 min)

How Amazon practices this strategy (from 7:00 min)

Why companies need to actively keep an eye on their periphery and spot the developments there (from 10:15 min);

Weak signals, why are they important to watch (from 13:35 min)

Spotting uncertainties in periphery of the Chocolate industry and developing new business opportunities (from 18:00 min)

Vigilant vs Vulnerable organizations (from 23:45 min)

Why is digital turbulence posing new challenges for leaders and organizations? (from 25:45 min) (FinTechs in Singapore, Insurance industry…)

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You are What You Risk: In Part 2 of this MoveConversations interview, Ms. Michele Wucker talks about:

1. Do people take more risks shortly after eating spicy food?

2. Risk Personalities - “how much is nature and how much is nurture?"

3. Male traders with higher testosterone levels end up with worse returns

4. Most entrepreneurs are not high-risk takers

5. If your mother tongue has NO future-time reference then you are much more future-oriented!

Her earlier book The Gray Rhino is the #1 Best-Selling English language book in China and a #1 Amazon bestseller in the financial risk management category. 

For more information about her and her work visit https://www.thegrayrhino.com/

Credits for Images - Risk Underlying Scales and The Risk Type Compass

© Psychological Consultancy. For more information about them visit https://www.psychological-consultancy...

https://www.psychological-consultancy...

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Gray Rhinos: The Obvious Dangers We Ignore

Well-known author and speaker Ms. Michele Wucker explains in this MoveConversations interview :

1. How #TheGrayRhino is different from the rare Black Swan events

2. The crackdown on big tech in China is because the government saw some Gray Rhinos in the sector

3. How we deal with Gray Rhinos

4. Gray Rhinos can present opportunities

5. Why we should be trained in identifying Grey Rhinos and VUCA challenges 

A popular Ted Talk speaker, her book is The #1 Best-Selling English language book in China and a #1 Amazon bestseller in the financial risk management category. 

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Ms. Shabari Raje, Co-Founder, Findmeashoe.com talks about how they are transforming Footwear Retail where one in five shoes sold aren't the right fit.

Future of Footwear Retail is Here

• Over a million consumers used findmeashoe.com's solution online in the last 6 months alone.

• The solution takes a 3D image of the feet and recommends best fit shoes.

• Leading retailers who adopted it online and in store have seen 2.5 to 4 times customer conversion

• Plus a 40-70% reduction in returns

• Retailers can offer better designs, saleable sizes, and assortments with this solution.

In conversation with SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University, Singapore.

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TiE Singapore in collaboration with IITAAS (Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Association Singapore) has launched a "Mission India" initiative involving its individual and corporate members to raise USD 1 Million.

The contributions will go towards procuring medical equipment like Oxygen Concentrators for short term relief and building medical infrastructure in India in the medium term.

In this special episode, we talk to Amit Gupta, President of TIE Singapore about their Mission India initiative as well as the "I Breathe for India" Virtual Fundraiser on Sunday 9th May, 2021, 6pm IST (8:30pm SGT) to be streamed on YouTube, Facebook etc.

We talk to Amit to know more about the initiative:

1. Objectives

2. Credible partners who will provide the last mile, ground logistics support

3. Planned impact of your donation, and

4. How to donate

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TiE Singapore website: https://singapore.tie.org/ 

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To learn how he managed a million-dollar crisis in Soybean trade in China and converted it into a long-term opportunity for the company, we talk to Mr. V.B. Kasi, Former Head of US Bean Trading at COFCO Americas Resources, USA.  

Kasi is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 2 Kasi talks about

1. The idea for crisis resolution that generates multimillion dollar opportunity

2. Long-term benefits

Sources, Acknowledgements and Credits

Soybean Process Flow

Source: NutionalAdvance.com

Soybean Production and Imports in China

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2...

ANEC's Contracts for Soybeans (recent version)

https://anec.com.br/article/contracts...  

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To learn how he managed a million-dollar crisis in Soybean trade in China and converted it into a long-term opportunity for the company, we talk to Mr. V.B. Kasi, Former Head of US Bean Trading at COFCO Americas Resources, USA.

Kasi is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 1, Kasi talks about:

1. Soybean trade in circa 2000-3 and impact of China joining WTO

2. The trade is most optimistic on China and the unforeseen Crisis hits everyone

Sources, Acknowledgements and Credits

Soybean Process Flow

Source: NutionalAdvance.com

Soybean Production and Imports in China

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2...

ANEC's Contracts for Soybeans (recent version)

https://anec.com.br/article/contracts...

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TradeStuff by MoVeConversations, a series of talks on trade and related topics, presents a two-part discussion with Mr. Siraj Azmat Chaudhry, Managing Director and CEO of National Collateral Management Services Ltd, and former Chairman, CARGILL India.

We talk to Siraj about his experience in leading the transformation of a traditional B2B business into a large FMCG corporation by expanding Cargill’s Food business in India in edible oils, flour, corn products and food ingredients.

Siraj is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He sits on the board of Tata Global Beverages Ltd as an Independent Director.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the second part of our discussion, Siraj talks about:

• Dealing with Volatility in India - Political, Economic, Social, Policy, Legal, Taxation …

• Navigating the differences in approaches towards MNC investments ... Those between the centre, state, and local authorities.

• Experiences in practising Ethical Business in India

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TradeStuff by MoVeConversations, a series of talks on trade and related topics, presents a two-part discussion with Mr. Siraj Azmat Chaudhry, Managing Director and CEO of National Collateral Management Services Ltd, and former Chairman, CARGILL India Pvt Ltd.

We talk to Siraj about his experience in leading the transformation of a traditional B2B business into a large FMCG corporation by expanding Cargill’s food business in India in edible oils, flour, corn products and food ingredients.

Siraj is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He sits on the board of Tata Global Beverages Ltd as an Independent Director.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the first part of our discussion, Siraj talks about:

• How should MNCs think, organise, and operate differently in India?

• Key elements of his India strategy as an MNC head

• Key areas that MNC leaders in India must get the freedom and authority from HQ

• How should MNCs think about and execute M&As and JVs in India?

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TradeStuff by MoVeConversations, a series of talks on trade and related topics, presents a bonus episode – a discussion on Supply Chain Finance and Collapse of Greensill Capital.

We talk to Mr. Srinath Keshavan, Chief Executive of Trade Risk Consulting and a well-known Trade Finance consultant. He has been a trainer for Euromoney and World Bank Group for many years.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In this discussion, Srinath shares his views on:

• Supply Chain Finance and how it works.

• Role of Supply Chain Finance funds

• What led to Greensill Capital's collapse?

• The context in which such collapses happen

Reference: GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE FORUM; STANDARD DEFINITIONS FOR TECHNIQUES OF SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE

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