The launch of Bitcoin in 2009 brought the world the possibility of using blockchain networks, or at least some form of distributed decentralised ledger technology to advance the world of international trade.

Trade Finance Global heard from Sean Edwards, Chairman of the ITFA at the NEARC (North East Asia Regional Committee) Seminar held in Beijing earlier this month.

Blockchain and the distributed ledger technology (DLT) behind it have huge potential to transform the administrative processes that eat up time and cause so much anxiety in international trade and shipping.

In this edition of Trade Finance Talks, we’re going to be hearing from Alisa DiCaprio, Head of Trade and Supply Chain at R3 on Corda, blockchain and data exchange in trade

komgo was established in late 2018 with the purpose of automating global commodity trades. But what is komgo?

UniCredit has recently announced the successful completion of its first Italian transaction via blockchain-based trading platform we.trade.

Commerzbank and LBBW are pioneering with Voith and KSB in the digital transformation of trade finance solutions

A Bill of Lading (abbreviated to B/L) is one of the most important documents in the global trade transactions. A B/L has 3 basic purposes or roles:  Evidence of Contract of Carriage… read more →

In this edition of Trade Finance Talks, we speak with Roberto Mancone at we.trade, and Daniele Gnagnarella. Here, we discuss how they are changing the face of trade and receivables finance, and the Consortia 2019 event in May

Technology is widely used to support the internal trade finance processes of African banks, DFIs and alternative lenders. The digital tools that they deploy range from Microsoft’s basic suite of programs to the more sophisticated systems such as Ecobank’s OMNI eFSC (Electronic Financial Supply Chain) software. However, these solutions exist in silos with disjointed usage and application.