Suominen Keynotes at GTR in Silicon Valley, Speaks at BAFT in Chicago
Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen was honored to deliver the keynote address at the Global Trade Review's West Coast Trade and Working Capital conference on 17 November in San Jose, CA. Suominen spoke about the future of trade in light of digitization of trade and finance, rise of small businesses to drive world trade, and the recent U.S. election on trade and economic policies. Her PPT is here.
Suominen also joined a panel on SME trade finance at the Bankers Association for Finan
How to regear export credit agencies to boost small business ecommerce
This first appeared in: http://www.gereports.com/heres-really-debating-comes-trade/ Of American micro and small businesses that sell on eBay, 97 percent export. Small online sellers are the new face of world trade. Export credit agencies must learn to support them, writes Kati Suominen, founder and chairwoman of the Trade Capital Fund. A glance at global trade flows reveals a stunning fact: while overall world trade has grown more slowly after 2008 than any time since the rec
