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  RMB is excited to partner with Traydstream, an AI-enabled trade finance platform. This is just one of the elements of RMB’s continued efforts to streamline and digitise its trade finance process. The move, which promises greater efficiency and scalability,...

  It is no secret that blockchain has revolutionized the way that people understand and interact with the digital world. It has been a number of years since blockchain debuted on the world stage, and in its time since, the platform has paved the way for...

  The world is practically at our fingertips – answers to your wildest queries exist if you know where to look. Technology has been a great enabler in all aspects of society, and has ushered in a new age and new standards of work. We would be at a great loss...

Tariq Korejo has a long history of working in banking innovation, including over 15 years at Citi, and he joined Traydstream in July 2021 as Head of Partnerships.  New Possibilities  What interested me about Traydstream is the belief that we are part of...

  Trade Finance is a fascinating field where you feel you are constantly learning. With its myriad of rules and regulations, it can take a life-time to learn and even then, there are so many things to always learn due to its vastness and flexibility. It allows...

Lunch was quick today, I find it sensible when working-from-home to try and get out of the house once a day, but a brisk walk down to the local shops in the ever-present Mancunian rain was enough for me today.   I’ll take this time to recap my morning, in case you...

Its 7:00 am and my annoying Apple alarm has yet again started to sing loudly into my ear, even from under the pillow where I secreted it five minutes ago. My key task for the day is to write this blog for our marketing department. Maybe explaining the reason for my...

  Interviewer: Dan van der Werf Interviewee: Asad Allibhoy   Dan: Welcome to our Skills of the Future podcast. Our theme for the series is HR game changers applying skills and competencies to the world of work. My name is Dan van der Werf. I'm principal...

  Traydstream Limited, the London based fintech, and GCX, a global ESG technology and advisory company based in South Africa, are excited to announce their collaboration on bringing ESG risk metrics to the Traydstream automated trade document checking solution...

Though headquartered in London, England – Traydstream has roots all over the world. We pride ourselves on our globality, and it is reflected in the organization all the way through – from our physical presence, to our leverageable connections, to our international...

Deutsche Bank partners with Traydstream to automate document checking for their Trade Finance products  The partnership with Traydstream will boost the bank’s ongoing efforts to digitise and automate its documentary trade business, enhancing controls, ensuring...

    Fintech, or financial technology, is a rapidly growing industry that uses technology to improve financial services. Fintech companies range from startups to established companies, and they provide a variety of services, including payments, lending,...

  Welcome to Traydstream Diaries, where we ask our Traydstreamers to lend us their voices. We are peeling back the lid on who we are and what we do with this fun series. Get to know us, like we know us! #traydstream Our first #traydstreamdiaries entry comes...

  Last week, Global Trade Review (GTR) published the transcript of a round-table talk conducted by Shannon Manders with James Binns - global head of trade and working capital at Barclays; André Casterman - founder and managing director, Casterman Advisory; and...

TS is committed to building value added partners that can bring true leverage to our end to end trade finance value proposition. At the heart of our unique trade eco-system sits our digitiisation and document checking engine which produces malleable extracted data...

Watch full video: https://hexaware.com/resource/partnership-of-traydstream-and-hexaware/  Bring great minds together when you want great things to...

  The processes of automation and digitization clearly exemplifies how the convergence of technology and human interaction can truly bring about tangible value across so many industries and operational processes. Many clients we speak with ask the same...

“FinTech” - an abbreviation for financial technology, is the term for the industry wherein technology is created to improve financial services. FinTech companies provide a variety of services, including payments, lending, operations, investing, regulation, and...

  Citrus Consulting, a part of the renowned Redington Group, is delighted to announce the partnership with Traydstream, an award-winning Fin-tech Rules Engine provider in the Trade Finance industry. Traydstream is redefining Trade Finance by digitizing and...

The last ten years have brought large scale transformation for the global financial services industry– some may even call this a digital revolution!   The advancement of innovative technologies, changing customer expectations and increased competition coupled...

Behind every great company is an equally great motto – a carefully crafted message that represents a company in a snapshot. At Traydstream, our purpose is bringing the trade finance industry into the 21st century. To understand what this means, it is key to...

Jordan Kuwait Bank (JKB) and Traydstream Limited are proud to have signed anagreement to use the FinTech’s digitization and trade automation platform to increase the bank’s capacity to manage large volumes of documents, thereby dramatically accelerating client...

  As the world continues to face climate challenges, along with a generally bearish macro-economic outlook and unstable geopolitical pressures - driving the ESG (Environmental, Social Governance) agenda is no longer a nice to have. Stakeholders, policymakers,...

Fintechs continue to play a part in the rapidly changing banking landscape, introducing cutting-edge technologies to enhance experience for banks and their clients / customers. One of these innovative technology focuses has been around digitally transforming...

 The world economy has witnessed tremendous development in the trade finance sector over the past decade. This basic banking activity has evolved with time. It has become more important than ever considering the realities of the pandemic situation, the current...

SMBC Bank International, based in London, UK, is the latest global bank to engage Traydstream’s Traydserv offering, which allows clients to immediately start using the platform on live transactions. Chris Hall, Executive...

Traydstream was proud to share the stage with digital Trade change makers at the Global Trade Facilitation Summit in Dubai and it was only topped by winning the “The ICC Digital Challenge – show me what you’ve got!” against some tough competition. Thank you to...

Traydstream was proud to host its ‘Optimisation & Risk Management with Trade Automation’ event in Karachi on 8th March 2022 with speaking guests: Mike Nithavrianakis, Deputy High Commissioner Karachi & Trade Director Pakistan; Irfan Ali, Managing Director...

The COVID-19 crisis arrived during a transformative period for trade finance, largely through digitisation and the emergence of new platforms. Despite the hardship caused by the pandemic, the crisis has also reinforced a desire for banks, global institutions, and...

The goal: Reimagine the paper-based processes that underpin trade finance using AI. Who we are: We have a diverse group of people around the world from seasoned veterans with 20+ years’ experience in Finance and Technology alongside associates who are just starting...

What We Do Traydstream’s unique AI-powered products reduce the costs, complexities and timescales of trade finance processing for banks and large corporations. Our scalable platform uses proprietary Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to accurately...

Traydstream, today announces the appointment of Martin Hobbs as our new advisory General Counsel. Martin has over 18 years of in-house legal commercial experience and has advised our Leadership team since our inception in 2016. Martin's success has helped grow...

To stay relevant even in a post-pandemic era, businesses leverage emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Bank-FinTech collaborations continue to go strong as financial institutions (FIs) focus on digitizing documents and...

Around the world, banks are reconsidering their trade finance business model, viewing digitalisation as one of the most important trends that will shape the industry in the coming years. GTR Nordics Virtual 2020 held an interesting discussion on "Assessing the...

By Achille d'Antoni, Founder, Traydstream and André Casterman, Founder, Casterman Advisory and Chair of Fintech Committee, ITFA COVID-19 has underlined the many obstacles for banks and corporates to process paper-based trade finance transactions. This has...

Know how global trade finance is being affected and how its ramping up to face the pandemic slump through this Podcast conducted by Hexaware Technologies. What are the solutions and remote processing options available for corporates, the scope for simplification of...

Traydstream is pleased to announce the addition of Adam Kasraoui as a Global Sales & Origination Lead, which further expands its sales coverage of Middle Eastern banking clients as well as a new focus on the value that Traydstream brings to corporate clients.  ...

Jayan Menon, Country Head - India at Traydstream I had written earlier (https://traydstream.com/a-case-for-replication-of-the-trade-facility-agreement-tfa-of-the-wto-in-trade-documentation/) about the need of an initiative aka Trade Facility Agreement (TFA) with...

Jayan Menon, Country Head - India at Traydstream Issues Bureaucratic delays and “red tape” pose a burden for moving goods across borders for traders. Trade facilitation—the simplification, modernisation and harmonisation of export and import processes—has therefore...

Traydstream welcomes Moshe Wolfson as their new Sales and Origination Lead for European Banks  Traydstream continues to accelerate its client activities and welcomes Moshe Wolfson to help lead the charge with European banks. He brings with him thirty years of rich...

By Sam Sehgal & André Casterman, members of the ITFA Fintech Committee and ITFA Technology Experts for Regulatory Action (TERA) 1.0 The History Who could have imagined a few months back the widespread and rampant disruption that Covid-19 would cause. The pace...

Trade Services in banks : A Complex web of Compliance Jayan Menon, Country Head - India at Traydstream   Background Traditionally, banks facilitated trade of a country through financing of the importers and exporters, handling of the documents and enabling payments...

Sameer Sehgal, CEO of Traydstream   Forces reshaping the World of Trade   It is remarkable how ‘unchanged’ the world of Trade has remained over the last 100 years. The same documents, the same protocols between buyers and sellers, and the same Trade...

The Start of Digitisation in Trade Finance Introduction to Trade Finance Trade Finance at its core, has existed for thousands of years and can be seen in early documentation of Silk Routes. Fast forward to the present day, Trade Finance remains key to global trade....

(What's Next for Trade Finance's Automation?) A lot has been made recently of the advent of blockchain in financial services, and banks must be applauded for their commitment to change; consortiums like R3 are clearly positive initiatives that demonstrate the...

Traydstream applauds the formation of TERA (Technology Experts for Regulatory Action), new ITFA FinTech Task Force, comprised of leading professionals in the Trade Finance Industry both from banks and FinTechs which aims to tackle policy obstacles in Trade Finance....

London, 9 June 2020:   Traydstream, the London-based trade AI solution provider, is proud to announce a partnership agreement with Refinitiv’s World-Check, which will integrate seamlessly with its automated Trade compliance checks.  Traydstream clients will now be...

Winning in a world of ecosystems An ecosystem, from McKinsey’s perspective, is an interconnected set of services enabling users to fulfill a variety of needs in one integrated experience. We are currently amidst a world seeing digital boom and technological...

12th May 2020 Traydstream, the FinTech leader in trade document scrutiny using artificial intelligence (AI), today announced the signing of a joint partnership agreement with Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE:...

ITFA Webinar: Documentary trade is facing COVID-19 too – how can technology and policy help? 10th April 2020 Traydstream was proud to be invited by ITFA to participate in a webinar round table discussion on ‘Documentary trade is facing COVID-19 too – how can...

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...

The incredible disruption to Trade Finance in just a week! Published on March 27, 2020 Uzair Bawany - Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder at Traydstream The last few weeks feel very different in the Trade Finance community to when we first started Traydstream....

  Bolero launches Galileo platform to deliver future-proofed trade digitisation services for current and new clients Bolero.net  11/02/2020 New platform has advanced user interface, rich functionality and flexible integration, delivering multiple value-added...

  Banks adopt AI to manage sanctions and compliance risk  Financial Times: 30/01/2020 Technology . . . can help with efficiency and compliance costs and all firms will continuously review their infrastructure and processes,” says Neil Whiley, director of...

Traydstream, the fintech leader in trade document scrutiny using artificial intelligence (AI), and Hexaware, the next-generation provider of IT, BPO and consulting services, have agreed an expansive partnership to provide Traydstream’s trade operations automation...

WIPRO & TRAYDSTREAM PARTNER TO DELIVER TRADE FINANCE PROCESSING AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS TO BANKS AND CORPORATES Traydstream is delighted to announce a global partnership with Wipro Limited, (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading information technology,...

Stanbic Bank Uganda (SBU) and Traydstream Ltd have signed an agreement to implement the Traydstream platform at SBU. This platform is intended to digitize the current manual process of vetting Letters of Credit for Discrepencies. The trade document processing...

Traydstream is pleased to announce a further expansion of its Asia Pacific presence with the appointment of T.S. Shankar as Area Head Asia (excluding India and Pakistan), based in Singapore. Shankar is an experienced banking professional with over 30 years of...

Traydstream, the machine learning-based trade rules and compliance-checking platform, is excited by a new pilot partnership with Finnish multinational exporter, Nokia Corporation and several of its major advising banks. Orchestrated around an industry event in...

Karachi – May 2019 – Traydstream and RapidCompute co-hosted an Iftar on 21st May 2019. Senior bankers and subject matter experts on Trade Finance and Technology were present and discussed the opportunities of automation in Pakistan and potential...

Fintechs collaborating: data technology and machine learning help originators upgrade trade operations and reduce cash conversion cycle Data technology and machine learning go together and two ITFA fintech's have started an exciting collaboration to combine their...

Traydstream is pleased to announce its partnership with John Khaw, co-founder of Lucidity with 10+ years of banking and technology experience based in Singapore. John will be leveraging his experience and background to help grow Traydstream’s presence and client...

Traydstream is celebrating the expansion of its presence in India. New office facilities in both Mumbai and Calcutta provide additional space to support the expansion its technology capabilities. Traydstream has grown significantly in the last two years with now...

On 13th November 2018, Traydstream was invited to attend AFTE’s (Association Française des Trésoriers d'Entreprise) flagship conference - an event held at the Palais Brongniart in Paris to discuss the topics concerning corporate treasurers today as well as...

Most recently as the Chief Finance Officer of Haygain, a recognised global leader in Equine Health, and for over 8 years at Alfresco Software, a leader in document management solutions, James has a deep experience in building financially sustainable businesses...

Traydstream Limited is delighted to announce its launch in Pakistan to support its major growth plans in the region as Traydstream Pakistan Limited (TPL). The entity will both serve as a centre of excellence for Trade Digitisation and Automation, while spearheading...

In the way that “Insurtech” and “Regtech” have developed in recent years, a new wave of fintech is trending – that of “Tradetech”. Trade Finance Global investigates the Top 40 rising fintechs supporting international trade. What is “Tradetech”? As cross-border...

Traydstream has successfully closed its second major Product & Technology Summit on 9th Dec, held in Dubai. Joining local colleagues were key functional leads from the UK, US, Italy, India and Pakistan. In managing dispersed teams around the world, these...

Traydstream and Swansea University’s Computational Foundry have been co-funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to collaborate on bringing advanced machine learning techniques and visual analytics to the detection of malpractices in trade finance,...

Traydstream will soon release the first version of its solution for digitising and automating trade, which it will bring into production with its first bank client. The news comes as the fintech firm announces the conclusion of a US$3.5mn funding round to scale up...

Traydstream is excited to announce that it has secured a 5 year deal with Pakistan head quartered, Meezan Bank to implement its digital solution for trade finance processing. The Traydstream platform uses a proprietary intelligent OCR (Optical Character...

Award-winning trade finance fintech, Traydstream, today signalled a full scaling up of its commercial activities, having concluded a US$3.5 million pre Series-A round of financing, co-led by a group of ultra high net-worth individuals (UHNI) and Gauss Ventures. Due...

A lot has been made recently of the advent of blockchain in financial services, and banks must be applauded for their commitment to change; consortiums like R3 are clearly positive initiatives that demonstrate the industry-wide desire to innovate. With global trade...

Introduction to Trade Finance Trade Finance at its core, has existed for thousands of years and can be seen in the early documentation of Silk Routes. Fast forward to the present day, Trade Finance remains key to global trade. According to the World Trade...

Trade finance software firm, Traydstream, have announced the executive appointment of Asif Ali as Managing Director of Product. Ali brings extensive knowledge of the trade space to the FinTech, having most previously headed Citi’s Trade Business for United Arab...

Traydstream was designed by banking and technology veterans who experienced first-hand the inefficiencies faced in the provision and receipt of trade finance by banks, financial institutions (FIs) and corporates. We spoke to Sameer Sehgal, CEO of Traydstream about...

Trade finance software firm Traydstream has announced the executive appointment of Shishir Vyas as the firm’s Chief Client Experience & Digitisation Officer. As the fintech continues to expand its core offering to banks and corporates of automating the critical...