Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG: Key to digitalisation – reducing the trade finance gap without creating unfair biases

During the Queen’s Speech on 10 May 2022, Prince Charles, standing in for the Queen, announced that the Electronic Trade Documents Bill among the list of legislation that the Government intends to pursue in the upcoming parliamentary session.

Contour, the global digital trade finance network has today announced its collaboration with TradeLens, a blockchain-based supply chain platform that enables the secure and transparent transfer of electronic bills of… read more →

TFG’s Deepesh Patel sat down with Contour’s CEO Carl Wegner and Chief Product Officer Joshua Kroeker to discuss trade assets, trade receivables, and the distribution of trade finance. 

The metaverse could spell a watershed moment in human economic history. It will reinforce the concept of global human culture, set rules for worldwide continuous automated trading 24/7, and forever alter our understanding of trade markets.

The concept of digital transformation with a digital economy deeply permeates the current fulcrum of global economic debates, unlike previous socio-economic disruptions and revolutions that took more than one hundred years to have a massive effect on society. 

The Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Guy Platten, admits there’s still work to be done to decarbonise the commercial shipping sector.

This article looks at the URDTT as it is applied to the first known commercial application: the eDTT Workspace.

Enigio has been awarded patents for the digital original document invention behind their trace:original solution.  The patents were issued by the Republic of Singapore on 26 July 2021, followed by… read more →

In our latest podcast, TFG’s Deepesh Patel spoke to David Meynell to discuss the new rules for digital trade transactions.