An Interview: Digital guarantees in a fragmented global market
This article first appeared in Trade Finance Global on May 7th 2026. As digital platforms increasingly dominate the cross-border trade space, one key element that is integral to easing access to trade finance is digital guarantees. Guarantees in trade finance are bank-issued, written undertakings that ensure sellers are compensated if a buyer fails to meet […]
Breaking Down Trade Barriers: How Technology Empowers Exporters
From optimizing working capital to leveraging data for global expansion, digital tools are giving small and mid-sized exporters the edge in an uncertain market. The rules of global trade are being rewritten in real time. For Swedish exporters, that creates an uncomfortable paradox: more markets are technically reachable than ever before, yet the confidence to […]
EBICS: The Catalyst Redefining Europe’s Digital Trade Future
Table of Contents Get In Contact December 1, 2025 Marjon Wohlen, Co-Founder of Mitigram, shares her insights about how connected infrastructure is reshaping trade finance across Europe. In financial services, digitalization often focuses on the shiny and new, whether it’s new rails, platforms or data systems. However, real progress doesn’t always mean starting from scratch; […]
Is Trade Finance Too Complex To Digitize?
Table of Contents Get In Contact November 25, 2025 Trade finance is often described as opaque and slow, even as it quietly enables trillions in global flows. But is trade finance inherently complex or has it simply become more complicated than it needs to be? It’s a question that continues to shape how we think […]
Why Digital Trade Is Still Stuck and What We Can Do About It
Why Digital Trade Is Still Stuck – and What We Can Do About It By Joshua Kroeker, CPO of Mitigram Date: 09/07/2025 For all the buzz around digitising global trade and trade finance, most cross-border transactions still depend on paper, email chains, and manual processes. Despite the promise of faster, cheaper, and more secure trade, progress […]
What Is Trade Finance? A Complete Guide for Global Businesses
Understanding Trade Finance: Essentials for Global Business According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), trade finance is a critical tool for facilitating trade transactions, accounting for 80 to 90 percent of the global trade. Moreover, trade finance not only streamlines international trade transactions but also supports global financial stability and efficiency. What is trade finance? Basically, trade finance […]
Mind the Digital Gap, Please!
Opening up Access to Trade Finance By Joshua Kroeker, Chief Product Officer, Mitigram The author William Gibson once famously said, “the future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” This phrase effectively encapsulates the trade finance sector, and sits at the heart of the trade finance gap. Everyone is well aware of the […]
The Asia banking decade
Over the past decade, a significant power shift has reshaped global banking – moving strength from West to East. Asia once looked to Western institutions as the benchmark for product and service innovation. Today, the numbers tell a different story. A recent research publication from McKinsey’s Future of Asia captures just how dramatically the balance […]
Optimistic Economic Recovery in Southeast Asia
Despite challenging economic conditions, many Southeast Asian countries are looking ahead with optimism and planning actively for recovery. While dire news about Southeast Asian economies has dominated newsfeeds in recent months, many analysts remain confident about the regional outlook. As global production lines resume operations, multiple sources predict that countries across the region will rebound […]
Banks in Singapore to be more risk averse
After the collapse of oil trader Hin Leong and financial trouble at several other Singapore traders it was expected that banks in Singapore would tighten commodity financing practices. As reported by Reuters earlier in July, Commodity Trade Financiers are striving to improve lending practices and transparency to avoid funding transactions where the underlying goods are double counted, or do […]