Tag: bills of lading

Experts at Swift’s Sibos conference last week bemoaned a lack of interoperability between digital trade platforms and offered suggestions on how the issue could be addressed.

The bank payment obligation (BPO) is often seen as an earlier effort to digitise trade finance, but it may still have a role to play even as blockchain trade platforms mushroom every month

Cryptocurrency markets may continue to crash and ‘blockchain’ could go out of fashion, but it does not mean the digitization of trade finance will stop

Nadeem Ashraf, trade execution lead at Cargill, tells CT the difficulties of breaking from the age-old way of doing global trades.