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Digital trade financier Mercore and electronic trade documents provider Enigio are expanding their collaboration to deliver fully digital, secure, and legally enforceable trade documents to institutions around the world.
Enigio, the technology firm behind the trace:original solution that enables the creation and exchange of secure digital trade documents, will partner with Mercore to incorporate digital trade documents in trade finance transactions. A series of transactions made possible by the collaboration showcased the benefits of digital negotiable instruments, like enabling same-day financing that would otherwise have taken days or weeks, improving operational efficiency, and increasing security.
The expanded partnership will bring a range of new capabilities to financial institutions, said the two companies. These include:
- A wrap around end-to-end service provision for institutions, with the option to extend this to their downstream clients.
- DNI / MLETR-compliant document suite, legally recognised and enforceable in multiple jurisdictions.
- Streamlined KYC and mrAML capabilities as an optional bolt-on service.
- Faster access to finance and liquidity, as well as increased tenor lengths for institutions.
- Frictionless adoption without the need for IT integration: Mercore can execute transactions for institutions on Enigio’s platform on a minimal cost pay per play transactional basis, to support pilot trades or proof of concept requirements
- Tailored solutions for bespoke business needs.
Digitalising trade means more liquidity can be injected in the trade ecosystem, which is increasingly crucial as growing demand for financing is leading to an ever-growing trade finance gap. Executing transactions digitally unlocks liquidity by “financing trade flows previously thought too short to be financed; and meeting the growing demand from customers to get paid quicker,” said Anthony Wadsworth Hill, Deputy CEO and Co-Founder of Mercore.
The result of the collaboration, set to be showcased at ITFA Singapore, is expected to remove barriers to the adoption of digital trade solutions – which have been underutilised for years by a trade industry still heavily reliant on paper documents and manual processes.
“This turnkey solution shows how practical and secure it is to use digital negotiable instruments that are easy to adopt, do not need any IT projects, and deliver real benefits from day one – providing faster access to finance for any party,” said Alex Waites, Executive Director of Enigio.
