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Andre Casterman

André Casterman is chief marketing officer at INTIX, a data management fintech. André also advises various clients on trade finance innovations. In addition, he chairs the fintech committee of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) and focuses on helping banks automate trade finance to establish it as an investable asset class through use of data analytics and artificial intelligence.

Prior to his current role, André spent more than 20 years with SWIFT, leading various technology innovations in inter-bank payments, corporate treasury and trade finance. During that time, he established an institutional partnership between SWIFT and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and created the first digital trade settlement instrument.

The TFD Initiative – The End of Balance Sheet Lending?

Fourteen leading global financial institutions have launched the Trade Finance Distribution (TFD) initiative to use technology and standardisation for the wider distribution of trade finance assets.

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ITFA Trade Finance Digitisation

ITFA, on the global state of trade finance digitisation

Trade finance has been a very slowly moving space when it comes to embracing digital innovations. However, the coin is now flipping: new data sharing technologies and ambitious plans from major trade originators provide much hope for a new trade finance landscape to emerge in the foreseeable future. Will the new trade consortia succeed to scale, and by when?

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