Trade has been the driving force behind the rise and fall of civilisations, the expansion of empires, and the spread of technology, culture, and political ideologies.

The International Trade Centre (ITC) has published a new paper, Expediting Trade Through Electronic Bills of Lading, assessing how digital documentation is reshaping the movement of goods across borders.

MonetaGo and Digital Vault Services GmbH (DVS) have announced a new strategic partnership which will bring together DVS’s market infrastructure solution for digital guarantees and MonetaGo’s expertise in financial infrastructure solutions and fraud prevention.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has launched an Expert Panel on Project Cargox  to strengthen Hong Kong’s digital trade finance ecosystem, leveraging cargo data through the Commercial Data Interchange… read more →

For centuries trust has been the backbone of trade. From the interpersonal to the communal to the national and now to the international, the expansion of trust methodologies has enabled… read more →

In April 2024, Guatemala introduced a Maritime Single Window (VUMAR) at Santo Tomás de Castilla and Puerto Quetzal to modernise its port clearance procedures. Early results indicate significant time and cost savings in the year since it was implemented. 

Digital technologies are changing the way we live, work, and trade. As WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala often says, the future of trade is digital, and it must be inclusive.

Trade banks today are faced with a whirlwind of new changes and challenges. From tariffs and trade wars to digitalisation and data migrations, it can be a difficult space to operate in.

At Finastra’s Europe Corporate Banking Day, held in London on 26 March 2025, banking and technology executives from across the trade space discussed many of the trends that they see… read more →