Contour Podcasts - Global Trade Insights: Recent Episodes
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Contour's CEO, Carl Wegner and CPO, Josh Kroeker, discuss the latest trends in global trade with top industry experts. Learn why digitisation is the key to transforming your trade finance processes.
Contour is driving innovation to transform the future of trade finance, starting internally with its Future of Finance Lab. In this latest episode, Contour's Head of Innovation, Elaine Ng, gives a sneak peek of what to expect this year.
Following Contour's announcement to adopt Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) in its network, we focus on why Digital Identities are the future for businesses and how it can bring trust and transparency to global trade.
Featuring our distinguished speakers:
Stephan Wolf, CEO, GLEIF
Oswald Kuyler, Managing Director, ICC DSI
Aaron Seabrook, COO, Contour
Moderated by Joshua Kroeker, CPO, ContourÂ
We put the spotlight on our partner bank, DBS where we learn about their approach towards sustainability and how digitisation can drive effective ESG-focused trade finance programs. Our CEO, Carl Wegner, speaks to Sriram Muthukrishnan, Group Head of Trade Product Management at DBS in this engaging episode.
Fraud prevention and risk mitigation are among the hottest topics in global trade today. In this podcast, we dive into the key issues impacting financial crime compliance and discuss how digital trade networks can play a role in reducing trade-based fraud. Our distinguished guests in this episode are Kaushika Ruwangalla, Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance - Trade at HSBC and Sebastian Villyn, Head of Risk & Compliance Data at Lloyd’s List Intelligence.
The adoption of digital standards will better enable the global trade ecosystem to realise the many benefits of digitisation. How quickly can this be achieved? Oswald Kuyler, the MD of the ICC's Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) speaks to Contour about his plans to drive standardisation in the trade industry.
As the digitisation of trade finance gains momentum, globally accepted standards and regulations are still lacking. In this episode, we discuss the importance of digital standards, where we are right now in developing them and what needs to be done to move the industry forward. Alisa DiCaprio, Head of Trade & Supply Chain at R3 joins our CEO, Carl Wegner and CPO, Joshua Kroeker, in this interesting discussion.
The Asian Development Bank's Head of Trade and Supply Chain Finance, Steven Beck, shares his insights on how emerging markets can benefit from trade digitisation, with Contour's CEO, Carl Wegner, and CPO, Joshua Kroeker.
Get acquainted with Contour's vision, mission and the technology powering the network. With CEO, Carl Wegner, CPO, Josh Kroeker and Marketing Consultant, Adeline Ee McNary.
In Contour's first podcast, we assess the uptake of trade digitalisation in the coming year and how we can drive adoption in the industry. Featuring Contour's CEO, Carl Wegner, CPO, Joshua Kroeker and a special guest, Alexander Goulandris, co-CEO and CRO of essDOCS.