The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity

New York

Date and Time

Thursday June 21, 2018
8:30 am-12:30 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

Location

New York

Topics

#Financial Services, #Supply Chain

Join BSR for a half-day convening to learn how embedding environmental, labor, and human rights considerations into supply chain finance mechanisms can help achieve business and sustainability goals by rewarding and incentivizing sustainable behaviors in global supply chains. Sustainable supply chain finance offers benefits to suppliers, global buyers, and finance providers and has the potential to transform supply chains.

The event will bring together global buyers, trade finance providers, and other relevant actors to demystify supply chain finance mechanisms, explore sustainable supply chain finance solutions, and catalyze action. BSR will present the outcomes of our upcoming research report, Win-Win-Win: The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity. The report and event are supported by Humanity United.

Who Should Join

Treasurers, procurement professionals, and sustainability professionals of global buyers
Trade and supply chain finance teams at banks and other finance providers
Providers of IT solutions and supply chain sustainability data

Agenda

8:30-9 a.m.: Welcome
9-9:30 a.m.: Why Sustainable Supply Chain Finance (findings from the report)
9:30-10:30 a.m.: Panel Discussion: Sustainable Supply Chain Finance in Practice
10:30-10:45 a.m.: Networking Break
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Moderated Breakout Sessions on Key Themes
12:15-12:30 p.m.: Meeting close

Speakers

Nevin Turk, Principal Investment Officer, IFC

Dan Viederman, Managing Director, Humanity United

Suresh Subramanian, Head of Trade and Treasury Americas, BNP Paribas

Mark Kaplan, Co-Founder and Partner, Eachmile

Charlotte Bancilhon, Associate Director, BSR

Tara Norton, Managing Director, BSR

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