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Perspective
30 August 2016

CGI’s Trade Innovation Lab: bringing blockchain to trade finance

Region:
Americas
Senior Reporter
Blockchain technology’s potential to transform trade finance is the focus of a new Trade Innovation Lab launched by IT and business process services leader CGI. Kitt Carswell, CGI’s vice president, senior offering manager, talks to Helen Castell about why it’s needed, what CGI is already doing in the distributed ledger or shared database space and some of the challenges this new technology looks set to unleash.

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