Trade finance

It does not establish that every commercial loan can now close within the same period.

NatWest's May announcement identifies a use case close to the daily work of trade finance operations.

The bank said it would implement ClearEye.ai's ClearTrade platform to extract and classify information from complex trade documents in digital and paper form.

The announced scope also includes examination against International Chamber of Commerce rules and checks for trade-based money laundering.

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It's time to choose the future of trade finance.

Can digitalization and AI finally modernize trade finance while maintaining the trust, security, and resilience upon which global trade depends? Christian Cazenove, head of Group Trade Oversight and Advocacy at Société Générale, evaluates an industry at a pivotal moment.

Globally, all trade finance participants today are at a crossroads and have a choice to make.

If they want to, they can stay with the tried and trusted, manually intensive paper-based mode despite the inefficiencies, delays, errors, and risks it carries.

Alternatively, the industry can start working together to bring about a digital revolution.

As with other financial processes that have seen fit to move in this direction, doing so means ironing out the issues as well as leveraging the numerous advantages of a new and evolving ecosystem.

Where we are now.

Well, I can't tell you how many companies, insurance companies, fintech companies have come to me and said, it's because I read that gap study that I decided to get in this space to try to close that gap that I see a business opportunity here.

This is Trade Finance Talks, your go-to podcast on cross-border trade.

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Welcome to Trade Finance Talks.

I'm Doa Sonmaz, Airporter at Trade Finance Global.

I'm joined here today by Steven Beck, Head of Trade and Supply Chain Finance at the Asian Development Bank.

Stephen has recently relocated to Singapore, a global hub for trade and commodities.

He was previously in Manila, where ADB's headquarters have been since its inception in 1966.

Stablecoins keep dominating retail crypto, defy composability, and cross-border payments where speed matters more than institutional pedigree.

Tokenized deposits take the wholesale side, interbank settlement, trade finance, treasury management, the parts of finance that were never going to touch a public blockchain wallet anyway.

The real signal.

The interesting part isn't which instrument.

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