The deployment will focus on Komgo’s transaction manager, Konsole, to streamline daily trade finance communications and instruments, as well as Market for credit risk and liquidity optimisation.
Together, we embark on a journey to transform and modernize the global trade finance landscape, making it more efficient and transparent for our clients and the wider trade community.
The platform delivers end-to-end life-cycle functionality across all trade instruments (imports, exports, and collections) from digital exchange of trade documents, instructions, and free format communication with seamless integration with the Bank’s downstream Trade Finance systems.
ING and Sucafina have collaborated with digital trade finance specialists, Komgo, to deploy the most-cutting edge version of the firm’s Digital Agent solution for syndicated borrowing base facilities.
The system will replace all communications (such as ad hoc emails, letters of intentions, etc.) related to trade finance transactions between Société Générale and its clients.
The investment was made by Emirates NBD's Innovation Fund, the bank's corporate venture arm.
The deployment will focus initially on our credit risk management solution, #Market, which connects corporates and financing partners for faster price discovery and deal execution on open account and bank risk; as well as distribution in the secondary market.
Through the implementation, BB Energy will leverage both companies’ solutions to streamline borrowing base drawdown with financing banks.
Komgo offers a unique solution for the aggregation of data and software needed by firms engaged in international trade. A major step on the road to interoperability, capable of reducing the risks associated with digitalisation for corporates and banks.
Trade Services Update (TSU) is an independent voice of the trade services industry. TSU was first published under the name L/C Monitor in 1999 as a legal financial journal covering practical aspects of payment instruments in international trade.
Santander CIB has become a shareholder of Komgo with a strategic equity investment. Both companies expect to build up synergy between Komgo’s cutting-edge technology and corporate client base, and Santander CIB’s unique global footprint and leadership in trade finance.
Komgo’s solutions have been implemented to increase the security and comfort of the bank guarantees’ beneficiaries.
In this video interview, Souleïma Baddi and Jorge Salas discuss the objective behind Bladex's deployment of Komgo solutions for clients: to provide a lean setup which has the potential to scale to meet their aspirations for growing the portfolio.
Through this masterclass series, we explore how Komgo solutions are providing a common framework for the global adoption of digital trade services while bringing trust and liquidity back to the market.
International trade operations still require numerous documents and papers that must be presented by customers to their banks. To meet the needs of simplification and time saving, Société Générale has rolled out Komgo for their Cameroonian clients.
Siemens Healthineers is using our export documentary credit and guarantee issuance systems to automate and digitalise their processes, and streamline communications with their financial institutions. Senior treasury manager, Tim Bachinger, discusses the implementation and benefits.
Komgo’s solutions will be deployed for monitoring of inventory, receivables, liabilities and hedging, and will further provide a digital reporting tool to reduce manual operations while increasing transparency for lenders.
Mercuria Group, in collaboration with Komgo as the Digital Agent, has launched a successful and oversubscribed Energy Transition Borrowing Base in the Asia Pacific region.
The fourth episode in our Masterclass series explains how Trakk is providing an industry standard for document security, in this case warehouse receipts, giving financing banks more comfort over inventories pledged as collateral.
Trade Services Update (TSU) is an independent voice of the trade services industry. TSU was first published under the name L/C Monitor in 1999 as a legal financial journal covering practical aspects of payment instruments in international trade.
The third episode in our Masterclass series describes how our Digital Agent solution is increasing the reliability of information reported within the context of borrowing base facilities, bringing more transparency and comfort for lenders.
The second episode in our masterclass series shows how the industry’s leading firms are protecting their counterparties with Trakk, and helping to reduce invoice fraud.
Clients can now reach DBS on Komgo to submit trade applications and exchange documents across a range of trade finance and service requirements, including letters of credit, guarantees, and standby letters of credit. Furthermore, clients can enjoy a consolidated view of their transactions across multiple banks on-platform for greater visibility.
Baker Hughes is using our system for guarantee issuance and price/liquidity optimisation. Treasury Leader Gessica Scida explains how automation and better connectivity with their financial institutions are the main drivers of their digitalisation journey.
Through the Komgo Network, FAB’s key clients can initiate trade finance transactions across various international locations as well as obtain competitive pricing.
Swiss headquartered Komgo announced today that it has acquired Canadian GlobalTrade Corporation (GTC). Jointly Komgo and GTC provide trade finance digitalisation solutions to over 120 multinational clients and their 11,000+ subsidiaries, connecting them to their financial institutions and trade service providers on a global basis.
Corporate clients can now reach Bladex on-platform in the context of price discovery and booking of risk cover and discounting transactions.
New Trade Finance Taxonomy developed in partnership with ITFA simplifies the complex landscape of trade finance. Co-produced by Komgo Product Owner Izabela Czepirska together with several leading financial institutions and industry experts, the Taxonomy offers a common lens through which to view the entire trade finance asset market.
The first episode in our masterclass series explains how Komgo solutions are bringing transparency and security to syndicated facilities.
Trakk registered documents can be verified by the Henry Bath website, where all you need to do is drag and drop the pdf into the dedicated space.
GTR's Eleanor Wragg writes that whether a system runs on blockchain or not has become something of a red herring.
The update will ease the workflows of FIATA members, allowing them to become digital freight-forwarders in a move from paper documents to paperless FBLs, which can be issued directly through their everyday tools.
The deployment will help customers manage their operational risk by providing secure access to a document’s history, enabling them to verify its true origin and content.
Digital borrowing base supported by Komgo wins TXF Overall Commodity Finance Deal Of The Year Award: Sucafina lauded for successful closing of USD500mn two-year sustainability-linked senior secured borrowing base facility led by ING.
Our recent SOC 2® Type II certification reaffirms Komgo’s commitment to the highest standards in information security, confidentiality and availability, as we continue delivering a benchmark software experience for banks and corporates to execute transactions in a safer, more secure technology environment.
OQ Trading (OQT) has become one of the first corporates to nominate Komgo as Digital Agent on their flagship borrowing base managed by ING, following renewal of the facility in mid-June 2021.
This webinar series introduces your Digital Agent by showcasing how we’re helping clients solve borrowing-base specific pain-points through simple and scalable workflow solutions which deliver security and efficiency gains.
The deal marks the first digital borrowing base announced in the US. ING Capital LLC acted as Joint Lead Arranger and Bookrunner in the syndication and will act as Administrative Agent for the Facility. Natixis acted as Joint Lead Arranger and Citibank, N.A. as Cash Management Bank.
Komgo solutions are now available to users in Hong Kong, with offices of Societe Generale and Rabobank among the first financial institutions (FIs) to deploy the network with their Asian customers.
Can we harmonise disparate trade finance processes in Africa, and thereby pave the way towards digital transformation for the continent’s banks and trading companies? Souleïma Baddi joins the Africa CEO Forum digital event to unpack these and more questions. Catch the replay here.
Several new names have joined the existing structure, further strengthening the composition and combined experience of the firm’s highest governing body.
What do our clients expect from their transformation journeys? Replay CEO Souleïma Baddi's keynote address to Digicom at Commodity Trading Week 2021, complete with lessons learned and our three c's of digitalisation: customisation, control and connections.
Komgo has successfully closed its third funding round with more than CHF26 million in new equity raised.
SUCAFINA closes next-generation borrowing base using our digital solutions to coordinate with a global network of warehouses to streamline stock reconciliation.
Demonstration hosted with MITech showcasing Komgo's document tracking solution, Trakk, integration into bank middle-office system to help build real-time visibility on the status of collateral.
Souleïma Baddi explains how a riskier landscape demands a trusted system in AGEFI, Nouvelle Agence Économique et Financière's latest Commodities Magazine.
Natixis encourages their clients to move their electronic instructions onto Komgo, to usher-in new levels of convenience and security.
Corporate clients will soon be able to reach RBI on-platform to send secure and authenticated instructions regarding the opening, issuance, amendment and utilisation of documentary credit instruments, among other functionality.
Komgo's very own Izabela Czepirska, PhD, is nominated for the 2021 Women in Trade publication curated by Trade Finance Global (TFG), in the tradetech category.
Komgo has successfully obtained the SOC 2® Type 1 (System and Organization Controls) certification as a result of an external audit of our policies and internal controls.
Komgo and MITECH increase collaboration providing end-to-end workflows to enable straight-through-processing and mitigate fraud risks.
Corporate clients will soon be able to exchange with Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd. around documentary credit instruments (LCs, SBLCs, BGs), to request credit appetite information and discount receivables, among other functionality.
What drives digitalisation, what challenges arise and how can companies keep customers satisfied while undergoing disruptive change? Discover these topics and more as we talk innovation with Komgo Chairman Annerie Vreugdenhil and CEO Souleïma Baddi, hosted by Jonathan Groubert and ING.
SOCAR Trading begins implementing Komgo - enabling simple, efficient and more transparent transactions.
Sberbank is the first Russian bank to join the Komgo Network to speed up international trade finance, via its Zurich based entity Sberbank (Switzerland) AG.
Experts from Clyde & Co, Aon, Komgo and Rabobank explore some of the key problems that the Trade Finance industry is facing today.
Corporate users will soon be able to reach SMBC on-platform to request credit appetite information and the perform opening, issuance and amendment of trade finance instruments.
MUFG has completed its first complete transaction using Trakk, a unique blockchain system that builds documentary audit trails to guard against fraud and falsification.
Komgo has enhanced its fully functional, secure and integrated trade finance software offering through the acquisition of established digital platform: TRAFEC.
CEO Souleïma Baddi speaks to Nasdaq Trade Talks about this key new location.
