Podcasts about tradeix

We sit down with Shane O'Flynn who is Head of Engineering with TradeIX TradeIX headquartered in Dublin and offices in London and Singapore, TradeIX is a company challenging the status quo of siloed and manual-intensive trade and supply chain solutions. We supersede these highly inefficient systems with one that is better connected, thoroughly automated and makes use of an open infrastructure leveraging blockchain technology. TradeIX is the world's leading provider of technology for global trade and supply chains. We enable our customers, partners, and stakeholders to transact and exchange data smarter, faster, safer, and with more transparency. Our exceptional team of visionaries, trailblazers and builders empowers our ecosystem to digitally connect, conduct, and finance trade and supply chains in entirely new and transformative ways.

Robert Barnes is the co-founder and CEO of TradeIX and the co-founder of the Marco Polo network. TradeIX is the network operator that runs the Marco Polo network a consortium of banks and corporates that transact both domestically and globally. In this podcast Rob, takes us through how Marco Polo is able to drive trade and working capital innovation with blockchain technology.   What is blockchain? Rob, looks at blockchain from a distributed ledger technology (DLT) standpoint because their interest is in peer to peer permissioned transactions. Rob, explains how there are different types of blockchain from the broadcast model, also known as public blockchain, such as Bitcoin, to the peer to peer model like Corda. A blockchain that has financial transactions, needs a peer to peer network that is highly permissione where only the participants to the transaction have visibility over it. For Rob, blockchain is a platform that facilitates the sharing of data between different legal entities that are permissioned to have visibility over a transaction. TradeIX / Marco Polo also use the same technology to run stateless calls. A stateless call is where you’re using the communication protocols of blockchain to call something or to request something that doesn’t need to be written onto the blockchain. By doing this you avoid the use of APIs between the various legal entities, companies and customers. APIs are used to connect into large corporates’ back end systems, ERP systems or underwriting ones to name a few.   DLT breaking down silos in trade finance When you look at the financing part of trade it is about interactions between corporate entities and their bank. This could be as simple as a payment. Whatever the interaction it happens via silos that need to talk to each other. Most of the time this communication happens via emails with PDFs, via API calls or sometimes it requires the entity to join a particular business network to get access to the data within a silo. If they do join a business network the power is usually centralised, owned by a third party and more importantly you get into issues of data residency. Blockchain / DLT provides the opportunity for everybody to control and manage their own data within their desired jurisdiction and shared with the counterparties that they are doing business with globally. This enables the breaking down of silos as parties start to communicate and transact between each other across the DLT, whilst providing all the permissioned ones with access to this single version of the truth in an immutable manner. Having access to this single version of the truth enables all parties to avoid the unnecessary cost of data reconciliation and verification. For Rob, blockchain / DLT at its core affords the ability to take risk and cost out of everyday processes that are done today.   TradeIX TradeIX started out its journey by being super focused on the actual financial transaction within trade. As they started working with banks, insurers and corporates their journey evolved into solving problems of communication between businesses, financial institutions, and the various ecosystem participants. For example, it enables corporates to exchange purchase orders and invoices between themselves without having to go through a centralised business network, use paper, or email.   Marco Polo   Rob had been involved in trade and trade finance technology for a number of years. He had been looking at a few technologies that were starting to converge which could make a huge difference in the way in which businesses transact and do business globally. Those three technologies were blockchain, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML). Rob felt that if you could bring these three technologies together in a way that created and broke down the silos and created efficiencies in communicating information and documents in a digital way across the globe you coul...

With over 30 participating global banks, the Marco Polo Network, one of the largest and fastest growing blockchain-based consortiums to date. In this epsiode, Ashlie speaks to Michael Odom, sales engineer at TradeIX to learn more about how the Marco Polo Network is revolutionizing the trade finance space using DLT. We discuss some of the challenges being addressed by the Marco Polo Network, and how and why distributed platforms provide an unprecedented solution that existing trade digitization attempts fall short of. Learn more about their future plans, challenges, and more. About the Marco Polo Network (https://www.marcopolo.finance/) The Marco Polo Network is the largest and fastest growing trade and working capital finance network in the world. It is a joint undertaking between technology firms TradeIX and R3, the world’s leading financial institutions, and their corporate clients. About TradeIX (https://tradeix.com/) TradeIX is a multi-award-winning technology provider and network operator of the Marco Polo Network driving innovation and change in facilitating the flow of goods, money and credit in global trade. Some of the smartest financial institutions and companies in the world work with TradeIX, including Accenture, BNY Mellon, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, ING, LBBW, Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Natixis, Bangkok Bank, SMBC, Danske Bank, NatWest, DNB, OP Financial Group, Alfa Bank, Bayern LB, Helaba, S-Servicepartner, Raiffeisen Bank International, Standard Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, National Bank of Fujairah PJSC, National Australia Bank, Bradesco, AIG, DHL and many other Fortune 500 companies from various industries. TradeIX is headquartered in Dublin with offices in London, Kettering and Singapore and operations in Germany and the US.

Today we're delighted to be joined by Simon Ring at Pole Star and Nick Barnes at TradeIX and the Marco Polo Network. This podcast is really about the intersection between freight forwarding, trade and regulatory technology.

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news. Leslie Tam is New Strategy Officer for CoinFlex Accenture Partners with TradeIX to Onboard for Marco Polo State Street Partners with Gemini Trust for Tracking

Catherine sits down with Dave Sutter (TradeIX) and Tobias Nafe (Landesbank Baden- Württemberg) to chat with a beer to discuss the Marco Polo network and how the trade finance industry is evolving! Listen on your favorite podcast app! Guests: Dave Sutter - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sutterdavid/) Tobias Nafe - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobias-nafe-709101161/) Important links... First episode with Dave Sutter (https://www.r3.com/podcasts/episode-6-were-not-calling-it-cryptolandia/)Marco Polo website (https://www.marcopolo.finance/) TradeIX website (https://tradeix.com/)LBBW website (https://www.lbbw.de/homepage/homepage_6kyjj4koh_e.html)Corda Network (https://corda.network/) Corda Network Episode with James Carlyle (https://www.r3.com/podcasts/episode-21-announcing-corda-network-anddddd-james-carlyle-was-lost-at-sea-for-a-month-say-what/) Catherine Rutter - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinemrutter/) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/breadandrutter) Music by bensound.com

In this third episode of Fintech Cappuccino Brian van Wachem and Conny Dorrestijn are joined by Mark Buitenhek. He is the global head of Transaction Services for ING, a bank Mark has worked for during his entire career. During that time he has been able to combine his job with board memberships at both Swift and the European Payments Council, as well as Advisory Board Member to Mastercard. More recently, Mark Buitenhek has been in non-executive positions for a string of fintech companies, such as Payconiq, Payvision and TradeIX.

During Consortia 2019, Deepesh Patel heard from Chief Strategy Officer Dave Sutter from TradeIX, discussing the key requirements for the true digitalisation of trade finance, and what interoperability means for the networks and consortia within the blockchain / DLT trade space. See the full transcript here: https://www.tradefinanceglobal.com/posts/podcast-s1-e11-rewiring-trade-finance-tradeixs-dave-sutter/

Guest: Carlos Arena - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-arena-0a55268/) Host: Catherine Rutter - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinemrutter/) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/breadandrutter) Music by bensound.com Links: Carlos Olympic profile (https://www.olympic.org/carlos-arena) Marco Polo (https://www.marcopolo.finance/) Marco Polo episode of LitFC (https://life-in-the-fast-chain.fireside.fm/6) TradeIX (https://tradeix.com/) Jorge Lesmes episode (https://life-in-the-fast-chain.fireside.fm/25) R3 Newsletters (https://info.r3.com/email-preferences-new-prospects) Carlos's phone numner +1 917 861 7449 Join our WhatApp group!

On my daily tech podcast, I often talk about new solutions that leverage technology. But today, I wanted to explore the world of Blockchain Innovators in Trade Finance. TradeIX are building the world’s first open platform powered by blockchain and distributed ledger technology. The best way to describe TradeIX is as a ‘Network of Networks’ for global trade finance. It is the most connected and secured platform infrastructure for banks, asset managers, B2B networks and value-added service providers. TradeIX and R3 also launched Project Marco Polo as a joint undertaking together with over a dozen of the world’s foremost financial institutions active in Trade Finance including BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, ING, and Natwest. Usually, I would just invite TradeIX onto this podcast to talk about how they are transforming trade finance through technology. But I wanted to try something different. I wanted to get companies based all over the world onto one call and see if we can show how they are all collaborating with each other to reshape trade finance all by leveraging technology. Today's Guests Nicole Lefevre is an associate at R3 which is an enterprise blockchain software firm working with a broad ecosystem of more than 200 members and partners across multiple industries from both the private and public sectors to develop on Corda, its open-source blockchain platform, and Corda Enterprise, a commercial version of Corda for enterprise usage. R3’s global team of over 180 professionals in 13 countries is supported by over 2,000 technology, financial, and legal experts drawn from its global member base. Andrew Speers is the Director, Product, and Innovation at NatWest within the RBS group. Andrew has been working in the Financial Services industry for over 15 years. During this time he has held various positions with leading global banks in roles ranging from Sales to Product Development. As a member of RBS Group, within NatWest Trade & Working Capital Services team, Andrew also covers areas such as Blockchain / DLT, Emerging Technology, Digitisation, Fintech Partnership and identifying new and exciting opportunities to help the banks client base to grow and prosper. Alain Verschueren is the Head of DLT trade & treasury solutions at BNP Paribas which is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors David Sutter is the Chief Strategy Officer at TradeIX and is an experienced Fintech entrepreneur and a blockchain/DLT expert. He was one of the first to foresee the benefits DLT could bring to financial services and in particular trade finance. Over the past years he helped pioneer and design the technology’s application for trade finance. He joined TradeIX in 2017 as Head of Platform Strategy to develop a roadmap for the trade and working capital finance platform and for the Marco Polo Network. David also devised an ambitious and ground-breaking vision for the Trade Finance Industry, for the Marco Polo Network and for TradeIX which fundamentally differentiates them from other players and networks in this field. As the Chief Strategy Officer, he will continue defining and designing the future of TradeIX and the Marco Polo Network. We discuss how Marco Polo is providing cutting-edge open account trade solutions, robust suite of trade specific APIs, sophisticated rules engine, and open, standard core infrastructure. A secure, single source of truth for critical trade data including identities, purchase orders, invoices, shipping and logistics information, trade assets, financing activity, and credit risk is no longer a pipe dream, it's a reality.

Simon's in the studio with Joon Ian Wong, Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk, Claire Wells, Director of Legal & Business Affairs EMEA at Circle, and Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft. First up, Circle eyes crypto securities bid with crowdfunding site acquisition. Circle is reportedly moving to acquire SeedInvest, a crowdfunding platform for startups. Their acquisition will – if approved by regulators – open to the door to allowing startups to raise funds by selling digital tokens via its platform. Yale Invests in Crypto Fund That Raised $400 Million. The Ivy League school is getting into the market for cryptocurrencies. $30 billion endowment is headed by David Swensen. Under Swensen’s leadership, Yale has returned 11.8 percent on average for the past 20 years. Ninety-six percent of endowments and foundations responding to a survey by consulting firm NEPC in February said they don’t invest in digital currencies. SEC, CFTC charge bitcoin futures firm 1Broker with securities law violations. The SEC announced in a press release that it filed charges against 1pool Ltd., also known as 1Broker, as well as its CEO Patrick Brunner for selling security-based swaps to U.S. and international investors without following proper "discretionary investment thresholds." Notably, investors could only purchase these swaps with bitcoin, according to the claims. The SEC is further claiming that 1Broker was not registered a "security-based swaps dealer" and "failed to transact its security-based swaps on a registered national exchange." Marco Polo blockchain platform for trade finance released. Marco Polo is an initiative to develop an open account trade finance platform powered by blockchain technology. The platform is built by TradeIX, R3 and a group of banks on the Corda blockchain framework, using TradeIX’s open-source tools to test, pilot and manage open account trade finance transactions. The announcement was made at the CordaCon London event on September 13, where Rob Barnes, co-founder and CEO of TradeIX, gave the audience new insights into the project’s timeline. TD Ameritrade all-in with crypto, invests in exchange. Announced this week a strategic investment in ErisX, the cryptocurrency spot and futures exchange. We also have a Tweet of the Week on Iconomi discontinuing their ICN token. Tying up the show we have a great interview with Adi Ben-Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain (he was supposed to be on this week but he was sick). All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe! Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes. This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Adi Ben-Ari, Aman Kohli, Claire Wells, and Joon Ian Wong.

The Asset's Darryl Yu chats with Daniel Cotti, CFO and bank partner relations at TradeIX and Farooq Siddiqi, global head of trade finance in transaction banking at Standard Chartered about new trade finance technology including blockchain. During the conversation participants touch upon several topics such as the challenges in modernizing trade finance. More from The Asset: Twitter: twitter.com/TheAssetMag LinkedIn: hk.linkedin.com/company/the-asset

Blockchain & Trade Finance This week’s podcast is all about blockchain in trade finance. We were very lucky to have Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle, Head of Supply Chain and Trade Finance at AIG. In this episode she will share with us the pilot they ran with Standard Chartered and with TradeIX.   2 Minute Definition of Blockchain Marilyn, approaches blockchain as a layman, so the way she looks at it, is blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology, which simply put is a distributed database or ledger that can record and track transactions in a secure environment with optimal transparency. Cryptography underpins the way this is done. The way AIG, and particularly Marilyn’s trade finance team look at blockchain is how it can be used to providing solutions to their clients by creating simpler ecosystems for allowing trade finance to occur.   What is trade finance? Simply put, trade finance is the facilitation by banks, financial institutions and other funders to support sellers selling goods and services and buyers buying them. There are many different ways to do trade finance whether with receivables, payables, loans or traditional trade finance with instruments like letters of credit. All areas of trade finance are ripe for blockchain/DLT solutions as we have seen with many pilots. So the issues with centralized databases, legacy systems, and fragmented paper driven solutions and even with fraud make blockchain a great potential solution for this industry.   Hurdles with trade finance that blockchain can overcome The reason blockchain and trade finance are natural partners is because much of trade finance is paper driven, fragmented, with different systems even within corporates, and certainly centralised databases that have a single point of failure. For example, there is lots of paper-based invoice requirements. There are requirements for following different stages of an invoice life cycle and so there are lots of different data points that are super key for trade finance and so by being able to optimize all of those data points in a centralized place, where there's essentially one source of the truth; that's a game changer for the industry. That’s something that the trade finance industry doesn't have right now and if it can be solved you can increase the trust between the parties. You can make it simpler to execute transactions at volume and then you can also add far more ecosystem participants such as corporates, banks and insurers. But at the moment, that's all very difficult. So even within trade finance you have lots of corporates that use multiple banks to do lots of their different trade finance around the globe with lots of different systems for each jurisdiction and it's very difficult to merge those. By using blockchain or in fact even other forms of technology, such as even API's to be able to integrate legacy systems with something like a distributed ledger, that opens up opportunities that don't mean that you have to make full scale adoption a requirement now.   The first blockchain-enabled trade finance system In October 2017, AIG launched its first blockchain-enabled trade finance system alongside Standard Chartered and TradeIX. The proposition is essentially based around a receivables finance deal where a large multinational corporate logistics client wanted to sell its receivalbes to Standard Chartered to give its core customers more time to pay. The reason blockchain was used was because the corporate wanted the capability to have a multi-bank structure as well as multiple insurers supporting the same. The operational benefits - the use of the blockchain improves the transparency of the data in the invoice lifecycle which makes it easier to track eligibility of the invoices, insurance limits, premiums / margin and all the data driven aspects of an invoice being funded and insured. So those are huge changes from what's currently the case where you know as an insurer ...

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TradeIX is rewiring trade finance by providing the most connected and secured platform infrastructure for banks, asset managers, corporates and value-added service providers. The team behind the success at TradeIX are driving a paradigm shift in the way they facilitate the flow of goods, assets, and credit in global and domestic trade. Built on Blockchain - distributed ledger technology, the platform’s applications, developer tools, and core protocol represent the dawn of the “internet of trade”. Powered by distributed ledger technology, our API-driven platform, developer tools and core infrastructure, provides a trade ecosystem which is a smarter, better connected, more secure platform for facilitating the movement of goods, assets, and credit around the world. Most interestingly, they call themselves a team of thought leaders who are instrumental in the creation of a new paradigm in trade and supply chain finance. They have worked with many of the world’s leading financial institutions and global enterprises and have been featured as speakers and panelists at major events for both private and public institutions worldwide. I invited Robert Barnes, CEO, Tradeix Limited to talk about how they are bringing transformative technology solutions to the world’s $8 trillion trade-finance marketplaces.

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