The long and winding road to digital trade finance documents

Region:

Asia-Pacific

Helen Reid

Reporter

Awareness about digitisation of trade finance documents still has a way to go in order for mass adoption to be achieved, as the paperless trade technologies battle against legacy systems. TXF discusses with essDocs the obstacles and ambitions of the growing digital trade finance documentation sector, and how SWIFT’s Bank Payment Obligation might be regaining credence.

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