Tagged: supply chains

March 15, 2021 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After the rollout of Trusple, which is AntChain’s global trade and financial services platform, DBS (SGX:D05) has confirmed that it’s the first major Asian banking institution to finalize a trade financing transaction via the platform. The digital transaction was valued at more than $40,000. The… Read More

February 15, 2021 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Dr. Joshua Ellul, the Chairman of Malta Digital Innovation Authority and Director of Centre for DLTs, University of Malta. Dr. Ellul discussed how blockchain-based smart contracts are streamlining routine business processes. He also talked about his research interests which include… Read More

November 11, 2020 @ 10:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Refinitiv, a provider of financial markets data and infrastructure that has served more than 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries, announced on Tuesday it has launched a new AI-powered due diligence report, known as Snapshot, to help businesses stay on top of the risks associated… Read More

September 30, 2020 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The VeChain Foundation, an organization supporting the development of VeChain, a blockchain platform for supporting supply chain management (among other use cases), notes that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) represent unique assets that may be tracked on blockchain-based networks. The VeChain Foundation points out that NFTs have… Read More

September 25, 2020 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enrico Vigano, CFA and CEO and Founder at FinDynamic (from Milan Area, Italy), notes that a new Fintech tool has been introduced which aims to support supply chains. Vigano confirmed that Diners Club Italia and FinDynamic (a company offers an “innovative form of supply chain… Read More

July 4, 2020 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Deep Datta Ray, a  Visiting Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, writes that Qatar’s opportunity creation in the “new normal” (following the COVID-19 outbreak) is in Fintech, aviation, and digitization. He notes that Qatar’s… Read More

March 23, 2020 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Italian bank Unicredit is providing a discounting solution to Venchi, a local chocolate and ice cream company. The discounting tool has been developed by FinDynamic, an Italian Fintech firm. It allows firms that are UniCredit clients to optimize how they use their working capital while… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Approximately $40 trillion of physical oil and gas is traded in global markets each year and anywhere between 3 to 5% of that value evaporates, because of opaque and fragmented product quality information. Validere, a developer of an informatics platform that allows energy firms to… Read More

February 21, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-headquartered tech giant IBM’s Indonesia division has confirmed that the nation’s Directorate General of Customs and Excise has begun using the blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-enabled shipping platform, called TradeLens. This news has come after months of platform development, with the country’s Customs… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-enabled supply chain and trade finance firm Envoy Group is reportedly planning to expand its operations beyond Latin America. This, after recently acquiring $13 million in funding from Alcedo Digital Ventures. Developed on R3’s Corda platform, Envoy aims to enhance the existing $17 trillion annual… Read More

January 7, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based tech giant IBM and Farmer Connect, an organization focused on enhancing transparency and sustainability in agriculture supply chains, introduced a blockchain-powered application at the Consumer Electronic Show (held in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2020) that lets users learn more about the… Read More