October 17, 2019
Igor Zaks (Zax), CFA, President of Tenzor Ltd , and TenzorAI, will chair Insuring Short Term Trade Finance conference by Informa, to be held in London on 27 November 2019.
In addition to chairing the event, Igor will moderate two panels: The Era of the Digital Broker and Credit Insurance Marketplaces and The Global Risk Environment: Lending Into 2020
October 14, 2019
Igor Zax (Zaks), CFA, President of TenzorAI, and Tenzor Ltd, will be leading the discussion at TXF Americas 2020 19-20 February 2020 in Miami, US:
The shift in supply chains
We seek to discuss the challenges and opportunities
within the modern-day supply chain:
• Other than pricing, what have been some of the
additional impacts caused by political, economic, and
environmental threats at a global and regional level?
• Who is financing the shift in costs across the supply
chains, particularly in LatAm?
• Which new strategies are being implemented to
mitigate further risks?
Discussion leader: Igor Zax, President, TenzorAI
July 8, 2019
Igor Zaks (Zax) President and CEO of TenzorAI, will present at ExCred New York 2019- Insuring Trade and Investment in the Americas conference 2 October 2019. The conference is organized by Informa Plc.
April 30, 2019
Igor Zax (Zaks), CFA and Vlad Skorokhod, PhD , of TenzorAI , were interviewed by Erik Timmermans, founder of World of open account.
Full webcast is available HERE
July 18, 2018
Igor Zax (Zaks), CFA, President of TenzorAI, will present at TXF New York 2018 Transformative Trade, Treasury and Supply Chain conference 13 September 2018.
The presentations covering use of AI (including distributed AI) within trade and supply chain financing would be part of a panel on TRANSFORMATIVE TECH: DISRUPTING TRADE FINANCE THROUGH BIG DATA, AI & BLOCKCHAIN. The panel would also include Alisa DiCaprio, Head of Research, R3, John Stillwaggon, CEO USA, Tradewind, and Nancy Amert, Director, CGI Trade Innovation Lab.
April 12, 2018
Igor Zax (Zaks) , CFA, President of Tenzor Ltd. is going to moderate a panel at US Trade and Working Capital Conference 2018 to be held in Chicago 13-th of June 2018. The conference is organised by GTR -Global Trade Review:
A practical guide to trade credit insurance
● Key drivers of US insurance market growth: Increasing insolvencies,
protectionist trade policies, and financial regulation
● Put some skin in the game: Which insurance solutions are best suited
to the US market? Considering whole turnover, excess of loss and
single risk policies
●What information is utilized by credit risk underwriters to assess
underwriting decisions? How significantly does this vary between
insurance policies / providers?
● Has the insurance market become increasingly adaptable to client
needs? Considering hybrid policies, higher limits on non-investment
grade names, and a willingness to insure ‘non-trade’ business
Moderator: Igor Zax, Managing Director, Tenzor
Gary Mendell, President, Meridian Finance Group
Paul Scobie, Head of Transaction Risk Management, Global Trade
& Receivables Finance, HSBC
Peter Hunter, Vice-President, Trade Credit, Chicago, Chubb
Jay LeClaire, Region Director, Sales & Marketing, Americas Region,Euler Hermes World Agency
Agatha Liberatore, Senior Underwriter, XL Catlin
June 29, 2017
Igor Zax (Zaks) , CFA, President of Tenzor Ltd. moderated a panel at Transformative Trade, Tech and Talent Conference
Igor moderated a panel at BLOCKCHAIN, AI & DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAINS: BRINGING TRADE INTO THE 21st CENTURY panel, held 7 September 2017 in New York
BLOCKCHAIN, AI & DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAINS: BRINGING TRADE INTO THE 21st CENTURY
Trade is ripe for innovation. This session pits the hottest technologies against each other in a X-factor style competition. An expert in each technology will give a 10-minute pitch to a panel of judges on why they think their technology will have the biggest impact on the trade sector. The audience will then decide the winner.
Presenters
Blockchain: Louis De Bruin, Blockchain Leader, Europe, IBM
ArtificiaI Intelligence: Christophe Spoerry, Co-founder, Euler Hermes Digital Agency
Digital Supply Chains: Anil Sebastian, Senior Manager – Supply Chain, Microsoft
Judges
Igor Zax, President, Tenzor Ltd
Kenneth Goodwin, Senior Managing Principal & President, Jeanensis Capital Markets
Cristina Dolan, President and COO, InsureX
April 24, 2017
Igor Zax (Zaks) , CFA, President of Tenzor Ltd. is going to moderate a panel at US Trade and Working Capital Conference to be held in Chicago 7-th of June 2017. The conference is organised by GTR -Global Trade Review.
Igor Zax would moderate a panel:Trade credit risk management and insurance: How are practices evolving?
Moderator: Igor Zax, President, Tenzor
Jeffrey Abramson, Senior Vice-President, Head of Trade Receivable & Supply Chain Finance, XL Catlin
Jay LeClaire, Region Manager, Americas, Sales & Marketing, Euler Hermes World Agency
Jose Brito, Certified Credit Executive; Former Director of Credit, Tech Data Corporation
Why is trade credit insurance market penetration so low in the United
States compared to European markets?
Whole turnover Vs excess of loss Vs single risk: Which insurance
solutions are best suited to the US market?
Are technological developments making trade credit insurance more
relevant? How is trade credit risk management best practice evolving?
November 30, 2016
Igor Zax (Zaks) , Managing Director of Tenzor Ltd., moderated a panel at <TXF Americas- Trade, Commodity and Export Finance conference to be held 1-2 February 2017 in Miami, Florida.
Igor Zax moderated a panel:
Idea Lab: Technocrats – FinTech in 2020
As financial technology increases its foothold on corporate management of cash, supply chains and credit, we examine what benefits FinTech can offer corporates in the run up to 2020. The latest and greatest is pitted against the tried and tested across the evolution of letters of credit, digitisation of documents, distributed ledger, blockchain SCF solutions and data driven decision making.
Tony Smith, CEO Americas, HPD Software
Christophe Spoerry, Co-founder, Euler Hermes Digital Agency
Moderator: Igor Zax, Managing Director, Tenzor
March 11, 2016
Igor Zax, Managing Director of Tenzor Ltd., moderated a panel “Corporate Treasury and Trade- Increasingly Strategic, Increasingly Demanding” at Trade & Export Finance Conference 2016 in Hamburg, Germany 12 May 2016. The conference was organized by GTR (Global Trade Review).
The panel, that was the closing panel of the conference included Ingo Schröder from Jebsen & Jessen and Chris Hyde from Mitigram and was focused on a corporate view of both banks and fintechs offerings and the degree in which such offerings addressing “real” corporate needs