First Half 2020 Hyperledger TF-SIG Report by the chair
Special Interest Group Trade Finance
The community is growing in terms of members and is still attracting new ones, although yet it hasn’t managed to develop new activities. Meetings take place at regular cadence every two week at 8;30 UK time which looks to be the best time slot for the APAC region. At the very start of the new time slot, meeting attendance was good and growing strongly. Recently, attendance has been lowering a little, especially during the last meeting that took place on 7th July due to holidays. We therefore decided to adopt new strategies for spreading the news of our meeting through the social media we have available. Topics we touched in the past meetings are of absolute interest spanning from how to go beyond the problems caused by the current Covid-19 pandemic to the latest solutions made available for filling in the the Trade Finance gap affecting SMBs, with particular focus on agribusiness. The cadence of the meeting will be maintained regularly over the next months and quarters. The intention is the to develop projects and white papers to be published in the wiki page or externally point out to our page.
We had significant update sessions from various ecosystem players and it was well received.
Our goal is to stick to the bi-weekly general meeting and SIG’s “core team” will strive in order to enhance engagement and bring in new active members to the community. The “charter”, which is composed by myself, Atul Patel and Ross Wilkinson who meet regularly in order to agree on the subjects to deal with during the meetings to come and to agree on the speakers to be involved each time.
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- How DLTs can help tackling the problems created by the Covid-19;
- What comes before the blockchains: the use of AI in compliance for documentary credits;
- Digital (portable) identity and digitization of digitisation of the int’l trade related documents;
- What is happening in China, with focus on platforms for Trade Finance;
- New initiatives by the ICC in the APAC region;
- Interoperability and digital Islands in Trade Finance;
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