Accelerating progress towards trade digitalization through knowledge sharing
Accelerating progress towards trade digitalization through knowledge sharing
Accelerating progress towards trade/ digitalization through knowledge sharing
The Info Trade Central Asia Gateway is an online hub connecting Central Asia to global markets. It aggregates information from the National Trade Facilitation Portals of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, providing easy access to cross-border trade formalities.
With the assistance of USAID, the coverage of the ASEAN single window is expanded to sanitary and Phyto-sanitary certificates with the regional implementation of the ePhyto solution.
Through extensive collaboration between the BIS innovation Hub and Linklogis, Project Dynamo delivered a prototype platform to enable programmable payments through digital trade tokens along supply chains to facilitate the provision of financing by institutional investors to SMEs.
TradeTrust was designed to address the challenges of paper-based international trade. TradeTrust, comprises globally accepted standards that allow governments and businesses to endorse, exchange and verify documents and effect title transfer across different digital platforms seamlessly.
HSBC - Contour Blockchain Platform
Using blockchain technology, the Contour platform tracks and traces information as it moves between parties. Contour’s objective is to provide a single, simplified channel to enable digitization of the trade finance process, from issuance of Letters of Credit through to the exchange of documents.
TradeSecure generates and distributes digital trade finance instruments, protecting financial supply chains from disruption and fraud and improving their cash flow. Arqit TradeSecure can secure digital negotiable instruments, including digital promissory notes and digital bills of exchange.
Maintenance of this database is supported by financial and human resources provided by the Governments of China, France and the Republic of Korea. Its launch was made possible by a project funded by the Republic of Korea entitled “Capacity Building on Trade Facilitation and the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) Promotion to Strengthen Intra-regional Cooperation” (Phases II and III), a project funded by China entitled “Facilitating Cross-Border Paperless Trade along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Corridors for Regional Integration and Sustainable Development - Phase II”, as well as a UN Development Account project “Transport and trade connectivity in the age of pandemics: contactless, seamless and collaborative UN solutions”. The underlying content and online submission forms benefited from inputs by UNNExT experts and advisory groups, as well as reviews by the technical and legal working groups of the Interim Intergovernmental Steering Group for Cross-Border Paperless Trade Facilitation in Asia and the Pacific in 2019/2020.
