One year ago today, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) officially launched independently at the House of Lords in London under the patronage of Lord Waverley and Lord Davies.

At the time, we had a simple idea that turned into a diagram depicting what we have come to call the liquidity and risk management highway. This highway, and the platform that we have been building this past lap around the sun, both aim to connect the widely interconnected yet somehow immensely siloed worlds of trade, treasury, and payments. 

We also wanted to make the industry more accessible, showcasing the impact it has on real economy finance.

Too often, important conversations in transaction banking happen behind closed doors or equally restrictive paywalls and in language that feels difficult to approach, especially for someone entering these domains for the first time. From the beginning, we wanted TTP to feel different. Open. Intentional. Human. A place where people could learn, share ideas, and stay connected to what is happening across the industry.

Twelve months later, we are amazed by how far that journey has already taken us.

Since launching on April 30, 2025, TTP has grown from a small founding group (though a formidable one, with over four decades of editorial experience) into a global team of 20 that is not done growing yet!

Over the past year, we have published thousands of articles, interviews, videos, podcasts, and social posts covering the people, ideas, risks, technologies, and geopolitical developments shaping global trade, treasury, and payments. We’ve explored topics ranging from changing payments regulations and ISO 20022 adoption to the corporate treasurer’s perspective on liquidity, risk, and cash management. We’ve reported on the enactment of MLETR in markets such as the Netherlands and Mauritius through exclusive interviews with many of the people helping shape digital trade legislation around the world.

We have also tried to cover the more difficult and complex conversations affecting the industry, including the impact of geopolitical tensions, the conflict involving Iran and the ongoing war in Ukraine, the future of the WTO, sanctions and financial crime risks, insurance fraud, and the role of multilateral development banks in supporting trade and development during uncertain times. 

Alongside that coverage, we’ve launched four editions of TTP Magazine, released 11 in-depth publications, and hosted several breakfast clubs and roundtables exploring these and other high-impact topics facing the industry today. We’ve written enough content to fill a small bookshelf and have recorded conversations in hotel lobbies, offices, conference halls, event floors, and, more recently, our very own production studio in London Bridge.

But what matters most to us is that these conversations happened at all.

When we first launched TTP, many people in the industry took a chance on a completely new media platform. You agreed to be interviewed, you agreed to join our global advisory panel and our editorial board, and you agreed to read our work and give us your honest feedback. Without all of you, none of this would be possible, and the support that you have collectively given means more to us than we can ever put into words.

Over the past year, TTP has been fortunate to partner with over 50 conferences around the world, physically attending events in Amsterdam, Cairo, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Las Vegas, Lisbon, London, Manila, Miami, New York, Ottawa, Paris, Rio, San Diego, Singapore, Tbilisi, Toronto, Washington, Windhoek, and many more fascinating cities around the world.

At those events and the Zoom meetings in between, we have had the chance to speak and learn from so many of the bankers, corporates, fintechs, insurers, development banks, technology providers, policymakers, and industry leaders that make up this great industry that we are proud to report on.

There have been countless early mornings, late nights, long flights, last-minute edits, technical issues, event-day chaos, and more coffee than we would like to admit. We knew that it would be this way because building something new is never easy, but it has also been incredibly rewarding.

Some of the proudest moments from our first year included hosting our awards event in New York and bringing the industry together during our boat party in Frankfurt. Seeing so many people from across trade, treasury, and payments unite under the TTP banner was incredibly special for our team, and is something that we hope to replicate time and again.

Every week, we hear from some of our 57,000 readers, contributors, and industry professionals across different countries, backgrounds, and parts of the market. That international perspective has become one of the things that makes TTP special and is one of the biggest reasons why we have been able to cover so many of the fascinating stories that we have across so many different markets (we’ve counted 57 countries that we’ve had the privilege to report on so far).

We still have a long way to go, and we are only getting started.

Over the next year, we hope to continue growing our coverage, expanding our research and multimedia work, building new partnerships, hosting more events, and creating even more opportunities for the industry to connect and learn from one another.

To everyone who has supported Trade Treasury Payments during our first year (especially our MDBs association, and events partners – you know who you are), thank you.

Whether you read one article, appeared on a podcast, attended an event, partnered with us, sponsored us, shared our work, or simply encouraged us along the way, you helped make this possible.

We are incredibly grateful.

Here’s to year two.