Leaders from active ECAs in the Americas discuss how the agency toolkit is changing, and why untied lending and shopping lines are becoming more prominent structures for supply-chain security and procurement flexibility. Participants will discuss:

• Pre-approved framework facilities that let borrowers “shop” over time, reduce transaction costs and address developers’ demand for speed and warehousing; bundling multiple buyers and exporters under one agreement
• Untied lending as a growing area of competition - SACE’s priced-to-market “push strategy”, non-content-driven guarantees, and content thresholds as low as 20%
• Representative market deals - EDC corporate lending into merchant-heavy infrastructure

ECA products, untied flexibility and geopolitical headwinds from the exporter perspective. Exporters provide feedback on how agency products are performing, what is working, what is missing, and how untied flexibility and geopolitics are affecting their decisions.

• Exporters grading ECA products and responsiveness
• Navigating tariffs and geopolitical headwinds
• What exporters need from agencies to compete against rivals