Trade Finance

KEY TAKEAWAYS High levels of risk at all stages of the process make trade finance an especially precarious endeavor for the parties involved. New approaches designed to ameliorate the burden of managing excessive risk on the financiers by sharing more of this risk with...

KEY TAKEAWAYS The world of trade finance is hampered by outmoded technologies that weaken the security of the systems and increase investor risk. New firms leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain could offer solutions to a number of these entrenched challenges. The main pain points of...

KEY TAKEAWAYS The global trade market is dominated by a few large players protected by competition by steep barrier to entry for new firms, despite accounting for a smaller portion of national GDP. New firms leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain could offer solutions to...

KEY TAKEAWAYS The global trade market is dominated by a few large players protected by competition by steep barrier to entry for new firms, despite accounting for a smaller portion of national GDP. New inroads in the policy world have begun to open the...

KEY TAKEAWAYS DLT could radically transform economies and societies, provided crypto bubbles and ICO scams don’t undermine mass uptake of DLT disruptive technologies. Talk of regulating crypto markets is on the rise, but DLT platforms like blockchain were designed to undermine the concentration of...

KEY TAKEAWAYS DLT could radically transform economies and societies, provided crypto bubbles and ICO scams don’t undermine mass uptake of DLT disruptive technologies. Talk of regulating crypto markets is on the rise, but DLT platforms like blockchain were designed to undermine the concentration of...

KEY TAKEAWAYS As China’s economic footprint has grown in Africa, so too have Cold War-esque warnings that the opaque nature of China’s financial dealings on the continent mask an effort to exert control over politics and resources. Cold war goggles obscure the nuanced nature...

KEY TAKEAWAYS DLT could radically transform economies and societies, provided crypto bubbles and ICO scams don’t undermine mass uptake of DLT disruptive technologies. Talk of regulating crypto markets is on the rise, but DLT platforms like blockchain were designed to undermine the concentration of...

KEY TAKEAWAYS DLT could radically transform economies and societies, provided crypto bubbles and ICO scams don’t undermine mass uptake of DLT disruptive technologies. Talk of regulating crypto markets is on the rise, but DLT platforms like blockchain were designed to undermine the concentration of...

KEY TAKEAWAYS As incumbent banks and insurance companies struggle to compete using legacy IT systems and infrastructure, disruptive new banking and financial services platforms are taking market share. Global fintech investment in 2017 remains historically strong, matching the $31B invested in 2016. European regulators...

KEY TAKEAWAYS As incumbent banks and insurance companies struggle to compete using legacy IT systems and infrastructure, disruptive new banking and financial services platforms are taking market share. Global fintech investment in 2017 remains historically strong, matching the $31B invested in 2016. European regulators...