Access to Credit, Trade Finance, and Digitalization

Date & Time Friday, 28 November 2025 10:30-11:30 am (HKT)

Duration 1:00

Trade finance plays a vital role in global commerce by helping businesses access working capital and manage risk. This panel explores how legal frameworks supporting supply-chain and asset-based lending can improve access to credit. It considers the role of international standards in building efficient systems and their implementation at the domestic level through innovative technologies.

Moderator

William Brydie-Watson

Senior Legal Officer & ATLC Co-Director, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) (AIIFL Fellowship: 26-28 November 2025 / 6 November 2024)

Speakers

Murat Sultanov

Senior Operations Officer, Financial Institutions Group Advisory, IFC

Milot Ahma

Principal Counsel, Legal Transition Team, EBRD (AIIFL Fellowship: 27-28 November 2025)

Jun Xu

Vice Chair, ICC Banking Commission Steering Committee, Director, Senior Manager, Global Transaction Banking, Bank of China

Resources Watch the Recording , Slides available

In this international conference

Welcome Remarks

Hualing Fu, Giuliano Castellano, Jae Sung Lee

International Standards: Status and Prospects

Monica Canafoglia, Ignacio Tirado, Gérardine Goh Escolar

Reform Trends: Challenges and Successes

Monica Canafoglia, Murat Sultanov, Miha Isol, Angelia Chia, Julius Caesar Parreñas, Stellah Kakwezi Olimi, Charles D. Booth

Coordinating Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Responses

Giuliano Castellano, Carmen Chu, JP, David Wong, Hazel Law, Rocky Tung, Tomio Mizutani

The Future of Collateral: Pathway to Digital Secured Lending

Jae Sung Lee, Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Megumi Hara, Woo-Jung Jon, Marek Dubovec

Enforcement and Intangible Assets – Evolving Practice

Queenie Wu, Anna Veneziano, Richard Kohn, Danny Ong

Unlocking Innovation: Intellectual Property Collateralization

Julius Caesar Parreñas, Ivor Istuk, Doh-Uk Shin, Thomas Tsang, Johnson Kong

Access to Credit, Trade Finance, and Digitalization

William Brydie-Watson, Murat Sultanov, Milot Ahma, Jun Xu

Current page

From Farming to Finance: Technology and Law for Agricultural Growth

Marek Dubovec, William Brydie-Watson, Lyu Qi, Kyrylo Mukhomedzyanov, Henry Gabriel

Concluding Roundtable: :Remarks and Lessons Learned

Anna Joubin-Bret, Jae Sung Lee, Ignacio Tirado, Murat Sultanov, Bob Trojan