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The need for trade finance digitization has never been clearer. In today’s pandemic-ravaged landscape, banks face multiple challenges, including the legislative shift to digital trade documents and growing regulatory scrutiny, changing customer behaviour and increasing competition in the form of trade finance investment funds.
By understanding how paper documents work, we explore whether trace:original by Enigio, is an alternative way of approaching digital trade.
WTO, TFG and ICC have today launched their latest publication ‘Accelerating trade digitalization to support MSME financing’
A three pillar approach to achieving a more sustainable and inclusive future for global trade
Data will be at the centre of a brave new world in trade finance – Natasha Condon, JP Morgan
Collaboration with the scientific community stands to fast track technology in insurance and surety. We should be doing more to build these bridges.
Digitalising these documents may seem like a bridge too far for some banks, but the risks of not investing in these technologies are comparatively greater.