Berne Union Yearbook video commentary

The Berne Union Yearbook 2025, our flagship annual publication, charted a world of competing pressures: cooperation and fragmentation, climate ambition and industrial rivalry, innovation and instability.

Now, a new shortened Infogram edition brings together selected articles with fresh video interviews to explore the themes shaping export credit and investment insurance in a period marked by strategic tensions, rapid policy changes, and rising demands on risk-sharing institutions.

A year of contrasts and recalibration across global trade

This compact edition explores how Export Credit Agencies, insurers, and multilaterals are adapting to geopolitical fragmentation, more assertive industrial policy, climate and defence imperatives, and accelerating digitalisation.

Pairing written insights with video commentary, it offers a focused, accessible guide to the debates defining the industry in 2026 and beyond.

Featured highlights include:

BU leadership perspective: President Yuichiro Akita sets out the Berne Union’s approach to navigating fragmentation through cooperation, balance, and institutional resilience.

The regulatory landscape: Daniel de Búrca (ICISA) examines how evolving insurance regulation is reshaping risk management and market practice.

Sovereign risk and liquidity: Giovanni Riva (REDD Intelligence) analyses how liquidity pressures and debt dynamics are redefining sovereign risk.

Critical minerals and industrial strategy: Alexandra Hegarty (IEA) explores the role of critical minerals in energy transition and geopolitical competition.

Data and industry insights: Lewis Evans and the Berne Union team present fresh perspectives on market trends and risk transfer.

Video analysis: New video content from World Bank, Pangea-Risk, EIFO, Credendo, and Reuters adds timely perspective on recent developments since the Yearbook’s publication.

A short format for complex times

This edition is designed for busy practitioners, policymakers, and financial institutions seeking a concise overview of the forces reshaping trade, investment, and risk in today’s global economy.

We extend our sincere thanks to our advertisers for their continued support in helping this content reach a global audience: AXA XL, Vantage Risk, Dhaman, Sovereign, IA Group, Tinubu, Recovery Advisers, Pangea-Risk, ICIEC (bold but not linked to their website)

Please contact Eve Hall at the Berne Union Secretariat if you are interested in advertising in the 2026 edition.