Insight and news from the front line of digital trade

Secro won the Finance Innovation Award at the Commodities Innovation Awards 2026 in Geneva. The announcement highlights its tokenized warehouse receipts and holding certificates, with its inventory finance solution currently in pilot with banking and trading partners.

From Qingdao to Radiant World, commodity trade finance fraud keeps exploiting the same weaknesses in paper documents. Pascal Marclay examines how legally recognised digital originals can help close the gap.

Strengthening SECRO’s bank-grade digital infrastructure, scalability, and AI roadmap for global trade finance documentation

This article considers document security controls in the context of NIS2. Electronic bills of lading are one part of a wider technology and governance environment; using them does not by itself establish compliance with the directive.

In commodity trade, payment timing can depend on presentation and acceptance of the required documents. This article explains why digitizing the complete document set, rather than only the bill of lading, can help address documentary delays.

Letters of indemnity can arise from different commercial and documentary circumstances. Electronic bills of lading may address paper-document delays, but do not remove every financing, contractual or operational reason for using an LOI.