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December 2021 4 Min Read

Trade Finance Lessons From The Microchip Shortage

For thousands of companies across the globe, the worldwide shortage of microchips has added to the economic pressure they already face as a result of the pandemic. Michael Boguslavsky, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Tradeteq, looks how trade finance has been affected...

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February 2021 4 Min Read

Blockchain in the Fight Against Trade-Based Money Laundering

The estimated amount of money laundered worldwide in one year is as much as $2tr. . Despite billions of dollars of investment, less than 0.1% of illicit funds are being intercepted by financial institutions. Clearly, money laundering is big business. Like most criminal...

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February 2021 7 Min Read

Paper Cuts: Rio Tinto Leverages Blockchain for Trade

With the first fully digital, blockchain-secured end-to-end letter of credit transaction between Nanjing Iron & Steel and Rio Tinto complete, TMI asks Rio Tinto’s Michel Alves, Customer Service Manager, Iron Ore and James Liu, Account Manager, Southern China, to...

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March 2020 6 Min Read

Putting Innovation into Practice: Trade Finance for the 2020s

While many aspects of trade finance have remained unchanged for centuries, at the start of a new decade a variety of drivers are offering the tantalising possibility of redefining the sector. Eleanor Hill, Editor, recently caught up with Jean-François Denis, Global...

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October 2018 4 Min Read

Building a Network of Networks

With solutions such as we.trade revolutionising supply-chain interactions, while others, such as Project Wilson, connect correspondent banks to facilitate working capital financing, Simone Del Guerra of UniCredit discusses the shifting landscape of correspondent...