Trade finance digitisation faces ‘tipping point’ amid coronavirus lockdowns
S&P Global Market Intelligence: 31 March 2020
Demand for digital trade finance solutions is growing in light of coronavirus lockdowns, with technology companies saying the crisis could be a tipping point for the traditionally paper-heavy and manual business to go digital.
Goods move across borders, payments follow their own routes, documents are checked and re-checked, yet the processes that hold everything together rarely draw. When they work, they disappear into the background. It is only when something falters that their complexity...
Trade finance has always depended on systems that, for the most part, are relatively unnoticed. Documents arrive, are examined, accepted or rejected; payments follow; obligations are discharged. When everything works as it should, there is very little to see. The...
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