Trade Finance & Blockchains

An approach to closing the Trade Finance gap.

As chair of the Capital Markets Special Interest Group (CMSIG) in Hyperledger, an open source consortium for Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), I feel that taking a look at mitigating the Trade Finance gap would also help us with our work with established capital markets products and DLTs as it goes back to the basics of DLTs and securitization and capital markets. Where possible, data obtained through the use of surveys and papers by industry bodies like the ICC and ADB are cited and used. The data from these observations are fused…