Authors Page - Trade Finance Global

Morgan Lee is a Humanities teacher at Kingsford Community School. She is passionate about international, domestic affairs, project management and development issues. Having recently received a first class honours from the University of Birmingham in International Relations.

Professionally trained in finance and accounting (University of Birmingham; Nankai University), Xinran is now an IFRS Reporting Analyst at Yildirim Asset Management Holding B.V. Having set her career with KPMG, Xinran have extensive audit experience in many audit projects of various industrial groups, including automobile industry, real estate industry, chemical industry and optoelectronic industry.

Owen is an Economist at the Bank of England. He worked predominantly on financial stability risks from capital markets, with a particular focus on: liquidity mismatch in open-ended funds, risks and opportunities from cryptoassets and DeFi, and the market structure and resilience of the gilt repo market. He recently been promoted to a role looking at the capacity of the banking system to support the real economy (and associated risks). He is holder of two MSc degrees with high distinction grades in Behavioural Economics, and Central Banking and Financial Regulation respectively. Additionally, he hold an undergraduate degree in Economics, Politics and International Studies (all Warwick University/Warwick Business School).

Graduated from Durham University Business School with MSc in Finance & Investments degree. Currently supervising financial institutions with regard to their Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism affairs.  Aghayev is actively trading in financial markets.

Yuen Kit is currently working in the Central Bank of Malaysia, having graduated from the University of Warwick with a Bsc Economics degree. He enjoys analysing financial markets, with a special interest in big data analytics and econometric research. Writing has always been a passion for him; this explains his tendency to write finance-related articles, especially on topics regarding investing and trading. He was also an author at the Market Mogul. In his free time, he enjoys reading and playing chess.

Veronika was born in Latvia and is studying at Durham University. Veronika’s interests include StartUps, technology, the blockchain, and self-development. She enjoys travelling and exploring the world and different cultures.

Justin Melnick is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in International Relations and Economics and minoring in Survey Research and Data Analytics. His interests include Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, comparative politics and authoritarianism, international political economy, and strategic studies and game theory.

Ebi is a PhD student in the Durham University Business School – Islamic Finance and Economics. His main area of interest is Islamic Social Finance by training with research focus on Waqf, Behavioural Economics, Risk and Corporate Finance. He is currently registered in the final year of doctoral programme in Islamic Economics and Finance at Durham University Business School. I have vast experience in teaching both in Indonesia and United Kingdom and some short experience in the finance industry.

Yifei studied Economics at the University of Warwick.

Luca Jarrell started to write for TFG in 2017 within the student writer program. As a former graduate of the MSc in Energy, Trade and Finance in London, he is now based in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote about renewable energy sources and project finance during his bachelors and extended his knowledge of the electricity industry with a master thesis titled “The impact of energy storage on balancing costs in the United Kingdom”. His main interests are in the traditional topics of commodity trading, energy, finance and global trade. Nonetheless, he is also inquisitive about more current topics such as blockchain or smart contracts. Concerned about climate change, one emphasis lies in new technologies such as non-fossil fuels and renewable energy solutions.

Trade Finance Global (TFG) assists companies with raising debt finance. While we can access many traditional forms of finance, we specialise in alternative finance and complex funding solutions related to international trade. We help companies to raise finance in ways that is sometimes out of reach for mainstream lenders.

Nikhil Patel is a journalist at Trade Finance Global, covering commodity finance markets, trade technology, and cash / treasury management.

Andrea is TFG’s in house Incoterms and shipping expert, dealing with freight forwarding matters, customs practices and export operations.