#24- Weekly News Digest 20250616-0622

This weekly news digest is created by community members in the Hyperledger Supply Chain and Trade Finance Special Interest Group as a way to keep people up to date on the latest developments in this space.  If you have news to share that you would like to let the group know about, please feel free to edit this wiki page or join one of the upcoming group meetings and share your news with other group members.

News:

• a. Supply Chain Management
  DCSA Week 2025 – It’s a wrap! | Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA)

• 🚀 New Article Out Now: The Digital Backbone of the Future—Unpacking Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) | Andrea Frosinini

• 🌍 DCSA Week has officially begun! | Omer Guy

b. Trade and Supply Chain Finance

• 🇮🇳 SBI Factors Limited strengthens fraud controls in trade finance with real-time document verification | Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)

• 🔔 🇳🇦 We are live in just under an hour! | Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)

• Commonwealth business leaders and trade ministers gather in Namibia | Chris Southworth

• 🌍 How can green, social, and sustainable bonds enhance funding access for African borrowers? | African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)

• 🤩 Want to simulate the impact of #TradeFacilitation reforms on #exports in just a few clicks? | Pamela UGAZ, PhD

• How can companies navigate deforestation and conversion-free (DCF) requirements like the EUDR—while building inclusive, sustainable palm oil supply chains? | Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

• 🎤 On the ground in Windhoek with Valérie Neim, founder of WeAreInvictae | Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)

• US digital asset strategy and the European response | Norbert Gehrke

• 🌍 Getting to interoperability: Perspectives | Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)

• 🌍 Proxima and Oxford Economics launch global sourcing risk index | Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)

• Landmark. | Sarah Green MCIArb

• 🏦 Banks battle against the trade finance gap with a lack of credit risk mitigants, new research finds | Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arsennazaryan_esg-grc-sustainabledevelopment-ugcPost-7337743205305581586-gOqH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carterhoffman_history-of-tariffs-by-carter-hoffman-ugcPost-7335306491630952451-1kaq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgemariya_tradefinance-supplychainfinance-ugcPost-7336524399245737984-bhSl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/trade-treasury-payments_iccmexico-tradefinance-supplychainfinance-activity-7340707424372215809-pPWc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/deepeshpatel_touchdown-windhoek-namibia-behind-ugcPost-7340655466294738945-YV1c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/icc-austria_icc-principles-for-sustainable-trade-finance-ugcPost-7340637229909708800-KJxo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ariaaltonen_commodityfinance-causalai-hybridai-ugcPost-7333740418330689538-dLjy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/csouthworth_commonwealth-business-summit-2025-activity-7342172240467156993-HATN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw
  c. Sustainability & ESG

• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7341905154226483202?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajashazrinshah_green-bond-handbook-ugcPost-7342034428371574787-nVUV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/trade-treasury-payments_sustainability-and-scf-regulatory-update-ugcPost-7341910477016326144-d80m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bobgravestijn_when-rachel-from-hr-wants-to-present-evidence-activity-7333409218701492224-Dgrw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexandra-readhead-7b29479a_ffd4-activity-7341849989163216898-OInm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolas-merle-89652371_ai-organizationaldesign-innovation-ugcPost-7341504285571956736-HSns?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw .

• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7341785068933120000?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/iacbam_cbam-stainlesssteel-strategicautonomy-activity-7341749390824382464-fKF3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/annelochoff_ip-intellectualproperty-foodtech-activity-7340914794541084673-G675?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/verrastandards_why-we-need-redd-ugcPost-7341452260213735424-7O1n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/buggeholmhansen_oecd-strategic-foresight-in-government-ugcPost-7341369952110530561-q_EH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/business-finance-and-investment-at-the-oecd_oecdrbcasia-responsiblebusinessconduct-activity-7341465073976033280-2m7X?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/laram_double-materiality-in-action-ugcPost-7335623950850285569-P4Pq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rmatthewnelson_ai-governance-aigovernance-ugcPost-7338955850029453312-I7vw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/verrastandards_verra-carbonmarkets-climatechange-activity-7341162823919509504-3FFy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/esgthinktank_bcg-2024-annual-sustainability-report-may-ugcPost-7340749609176047616-BKd6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/unctad_unctads-world-investment-report-2025-overview-ugcPost-7341418661536022530-AOYw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amirafouad1_materiality-assessment-implementation-guidance-ugcPost-7340367371657736192-SN44?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-based-infrastructure-global-resource-centre_2024-impact-report-ugcPost-7335600840683978754-ofrc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/taskforce-on-nature-related-financial-disclosures-tnfd_naturedata-startup-ai-activity-7340402845948571648-n1M6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/science-based-targets-network_sbtn-activity-7338570649524740099-0oty?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/trade-treasury-payments_tradefinance-tradetech-globaltrade-ugcPost-7341059755513212929-pUKu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/laram_change-activity-7340822041912111105-gCT4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gordian-knot-strategies_sliced-climateaction-volunteering-ugcPost-7340399677663518720-J8sZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stepchangeofficial_justtransition-oicmarkets-sustainablefinance-activity-7340309680923037696-4c-e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stgovial_cobalt-ugcPost-7339345101879472128-udFF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/integrated-africa-power_fuel-cell-ugcPost-7340620702028369920-aHb0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-stanley-jones-crfoundation_reporting-obligations-ugcPost-7340723186277228545-cKqC?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gancho-kolaksazov-77b60645_report-ugcPost-7340811325456969729-3Kb4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeffrey-d-sachs_sdr2025-ffd4-gfa-activity-7340736411903426561-mvYA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/international-institute-for-sustainable-development_what-are-ndcs-30-saying-about-fossil-fuel-ugcPost-7336799562688249857-TYz_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/green-finance-institute_carbondioxideremovals-philanthropy-greenfinance-activity-7340640680714670080-MYP7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gold-standard_goldstandard-climateaction-carbonsequestration-activity-7340318300851109888-TZx2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/unctad_global-trade-hit-an-estimated-33-trillion-activity-7339668160075235330-Pu-f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-world-bank_radical-debt-transparency-activity-7341857425056034816-Zd0f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAKjbSYBNN37DNzTjy0PAuGLfQdLTBDPWOw