The future of trade landscape: How Corda addresses problems in trade By Mr. Henry Roxas Associate Director for Global Trade Partner Solutions, R3

2. Global Trade

3. Four Trends Shaping the Future of Global Trade
Trade policy as a
business risk &
opportunity
New technologies
redefining the rules
of digital strategy
Data is the raw
material for the
digital age
Reverse innovation &
the rise of the
middle class in
developing regions

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How do today’s trends affect the agriculture industry in
Thailand?

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Today’s technology solutions are not optimal
Source: KPMG

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New technologies could create traceability, trust and prove
provenance
Source: KPMG

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Why Corda for Global Trade – A Network of Networks

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Why Corda for Global Trade - Built for the Enterprise

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Why Corda for Global Trade – Partners Drive Scale &
Ubiquity

10. Blockchain enables new ways of unlocking working capital. Corda
is the preferred blockchain for trade finance.
BankTrade, Finastra, Intellect
Design, CGI

11. Trade Finance – An Introduction to
Emerging Working Capital Solutions
Voltron
The open platform for
documentary trade

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Trade & Working Capital Finance Challenges
The financial and IT systems that support global trade are aging, siloed, and have many manual steps injecting cost, risk
and inefficiencies into trade processes for all parties involved. The inefficiency result in slow and costly client onboarding,
inefficient reconciliation and bad customer experience.
Lack of standards and interoperability give rise
to disconnected trade systems that do not speak to
one another.
Valuable trade data is trapped
in different siloed applications making
it hard to collaborate and even harder to verify.
These data issues create situations that can lead to
errors, omissions and compliance problems.
Reliance on manual and tedious tasks
leads to costly and error prone processes.
All these issues result in large pools of trade assets not
accessible for funding
by financial institutions.

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Marco Polo Overview – Open Account
• Americas
• Europe
• Asia-Pacific
Global Initiative
Marco Polo is governed by member banks.
Marco Polo enables the creation of Trade Finance
applications and modules through a collaborative co-
creation model of the members.
Current Founding Members
The Marco Polo Network is a network of bank platforms
connected to their corporate clients via ERP trade and
working capital finance applications.
The focus is creating better customer experience and
seamless data integration, whilst reducing costs, time
and risk.
The Marco Polo Network is powered by open
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Coda
blockchain technology.

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An open technology network for
working capital and trade finance.
The Marco Polo Network consists of:
• a group of approved network participants
• software applications and platforms
• a connected network of Corda nodes
• technology infrastructure
Banks Corporates Logistics Insurers
ComputeStorage Services
Platforms
Corda Nodes
ERP Data VAS Non-Bank
Applications
ModulesModules
The Marco Polo Business Network

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ERP-Embedded Working Capital Applications
Access to Multiple Different Working Capital Finance
Solutions directly from within the corporate’s ERP System.
• Accessing trade and working capital finance solution through ERP-embedded
application.
• Integrating receivables, payables and inventory information data directly from the
ERP System with the financial institution.
• End-to-end trade and working capital finance applications within ERP environment
integrating multiple different trade finance programs and products.
• Allowing corporates to directly connect with financial institutions to implement and
manage their trade and working capital finance programs.
Dashboard of ERP Trade Finance Application
Marco Polo Solution
…and more to come
Corporate ERP-Embedded Working Capital Apps

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Voltron Overview – Documentary Trade
➢ Moving documentation required for the letter of credit
(LC) process to the blockchain will provide increased
working capital, greater digitization, improved risk
management and faster settlement.
➢ Voltron will create a network of networks for trade, in
partnership with Bolero, essDocs & other ecosystems,
offering one of the largest extended network of banks,
corporates, carriers, freight forwarders and other trade
facilitators.
➢ Voltron is an open platform, allowing existing trade
finance solution providers to provide documentary trade
solutions on the Voltron business network, enabling
flexibility and scale
Founding Banks:

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Voltron – Benefits for Banks
Enhance client experience
Improve operational and
credit risk management
Reinforce bank brand as an
innovator for clients, employees,
shareholders
Increase share of
wallet with existing
customer with risk
mitigation and
working capital
solutions
Reduce costs through increased digitalization
and productivity
of the trade processes
Win new clients (both
new entrants to trade
and clients from
competitors) by
providing greater
leading service levels
and financing options
Strengthen audit and compliance capability
through improved transparency and tracking of
assets
REVENUECOSTS
Financial Benefits Other Benefits

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Voltron Solution - Benefits for Corporates
Shorter Working Capital Cycles
• Reduced time for documents in transit and faster
presentations, using a single channel to manage documents
across trade partners and business networks (e.g. Bolero,
essDocs), avoiding the need to convert to paper
• Instantaneous settlement & faster credit and potential for lower
Working Capital financing rates
Increased Protection Against Fraud
• Electronic documents produced and signed through
cryptography, with ability to verify the endorsement chains
• Eliminate fraudulent claims/duplicate BLs across tech solutions
Enhanced Operational Efficiency
• Faster turnaround from auto-validation & reconciliation of
documents plus ‘smart contract’ automation, real-time info
sharing & e-presentation of application & documents
• Traditional Doc Trade with faster & more reliable checks and
ability to modularize and address specific risks

19. Thank you