Olivier Gazon CEO at Sustainable Base Finance
The current economic slump creates a trade finance paradox: Banks do not grant new credit limits, tight be regulatory constraints. Credit insurers face deep losses on traditional credit insurance schemes. Credit reinsurers have substantial reinsurance capacity available but cannot place it. The result: major losses for all parties. Heading towar...
15 July 2020 /wholesale /covid-19 Financial Supply Chain
Quantitative easing (QE) programs, i.e. purchase of bonds by Central Banks, have been used to inject liquidity in the economy. Yet studies show that less than 10% of generated liquidity by investors effectively reaches ‘the real economy’. QE programs have created massive liquidity, deposited at Banks. The bottleneck Banks have a structural cap to f...
29 June 2020 /sustainable /covid-19 Finance 2.0
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented economic contraction, hitting SMEs first due to their structurally limited solvency. Banks, even when backed up by State guarantee, are unable to provide new credit lines. SMEs and their personnel are the first victims. States are expected to facilitate the economic recovery. However State budg...
23 June 2020 /sustainable /covid-19 Treasury Management
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