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Trade Finance Blockchain Marco Polo Pilots First Russia-Germany Transactions


Marco Polo, the commerce finance blockchain with greater than 20 world banks on board, is piloting its first buying and selling association between Germany and Russia.

The pilot introduced Friday entails Alfa-Bank and Novolipetsk Steel Company (NLMK) on the Russian aspect and Commerzbank plus metals engineering agency Vesuvius GmbH in Germany.

Marco Polo, a joint enterprise between know-how companies TradeIX and R3, has a grand imaginative and prescient of worldwide blockchain-based commerce finance changing paper and belief with shared, instantaneous digital verification. 

The array of banks on Marco Polo mirror this world aspiration: Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, ING, LBBW, Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Natixis, Bangkok Bank, SMBC, Danske Bank, NatWest, DNB, OP Financial Group, Alfa-Bank, Bradesco, BayernLB, Helaba, S-Servicepartner, Raiffeisen Bank International, Standard Bank, Credit Agricole and National Bank of Fujairah.

The groups concerned within the Russia-Germany pilot are certainly not enterprise blockchain neophytes. 

“We launched our first distributed ledger technology in trade finance as early as 2019. Since then, corporate blockchain solutions have been considerably elaborated, and earned our clients’ confidence and proved their applicability to real business processes,” mentioned Dina Merkulova, head of commerce finance at Alfa-Bank.

A protracted journey

In distinction to the stay and kicking European SME-focused commerce finance blockchain we.commerce, Marco Polo is taking a measured and methodical journey to manufacturing. 

Previously, the 22-bank blockchain consortium added the aptitude for a 3rd celebration in a commerce (a logistics supplier, for instance) to set off a cost to a provider in the mean time items are shipped. This milestone work additionally concerned Commerzbank with LBBW shepherding a commerce between engineering know-how agency Voith and KSB SE.

Enno-Burghard Weitzel, Commerzbank’s world head of commerce finance merchandise, mentioned in a press release: 

“Our international corporates show continuous interest in piloting the Marco Polo Payment Commitment together with us and banks of our global network, like Alfa-Bank. Marco Polo network, meets our customers’ growing demand for increased speed of transaction and transparency, optimized financing, enhanced working capital management and possible integration of ERP systems.”

At the latest Sibos convention in London, representatives from Marco Polo and we.commerce shared a panel. Asked if conversations round interoperability had began but between the 2 camps, which construct on R3 Corda and Hyperladger Fabric, respectively, Daniel Cotti, managing director at Marco Polo and TradeIX, mentioned:

“In global trade, we are used to collaborating.”


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