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