Pull down invisible barriers to growth
Antiquated processes hobble many trade finance systems, resulting in risk and higher costs. IBM Blockchain solutions for trade finance are built on our market-leading blockchain services and platform — helping you establish new trading partnerships, uncover new liquidity pools, and create new business models. Now you can rely on distributed ledger technology, smart contracts, enhanced security, built-in governance, and extensive control capabilities for real-time access to trade finance data.
Trade’s biggest challenges
60%
of SME trade finance requests are denied¹
1.5
trillion USD is the resulting global trade finance gap¹
Benefits
Reimagine what’s possible in trade
A better trade experience is here for buyers and sellers of all sizes. IBM Blockchain for Trade Finance solutions can help you.
Lower risk and operational costs
Quickly process credits and guarantees electronically; gain deep insights into client financial positions and transaction histories; and monitor transactions from start to finish.
Find new opportunities and markets
Discover revenue opportunities through a new class of transparent, risk-mitigated and standardized trade finance and trade credit insurance solutions.
Establish leadership in a new era of trade
Foster greater trust and transparency in cross-border trading. Enjoy first-mover advantages by convening new trade networks and creating new trading hubs.
The IBM Blockchain advantage
Leadership in trade facilitation
We’re reinventing complex trade processes to help start, accelerate and innovate blockchain networks – including the successful production development of we.trade, now comprised of 15 banks across Europe.
Network-convening prowess
Our unrivaled experience in strategy, rapid product development, governance and regulation helps blockchain networks expand membership – and join forces with others.
Trusted business expertise
IBM knows trade and trade processes, complex systems integration, regulated industries, and – with 500+ client engagements to date – how to unlock blockchain value. We provide the entire stack to run your business.
we.trade is speeding trade finance – and trade
Join us in a business network that is making international trade faster and more efficient. we.trade is a blockchain-based platform shared by 15 major European banks that is working with IBM to help speed its global commercialization. The we.trade blockchain platform reduces friction and eases the trading process for participating companies, creating an ecosystem of trust for global trade. Its standardized rules and simplified trading options decrease risk and increase trading opportunities for banks and SMEs.
Blockchain services
IBM Services and Consulting
Tap into different types of offered services and discover what we’ve learned from working with many of the world’s most progressive organizations. Then join us to see what we can create together.
Related solutions built on the IBM Blockchain Platform
Blockchain for food: Creating a smarter and safer food system
IBM Food Trust helps growers, distributors and retailers build trust and make our food safer, by enhancing visibility and accountability in every step of the food supply.
Container logistics: Building trust between supply chain partners
TradeLens gives you access to one truth across the supply chain with an open and neutral platform updated and validated in near real-time by each network participant.
Supplier management: Digital identity verification for procurement
Trust Your Supplier is a blockchain-enabled, trusted source of supplier information and digital identity that reduces risk while simplifying and accelerating supplier onboarding and supplier management.
Resources
What is blockchain technology?
Learn the key elements of what blockchain is, how it works, and why it is so powerful.
Blogs: Blockchain for trade finance
Our resident experts share in-depth conversations, stories and opinions to help inform all in the blockchain community.
Advancing global trade with blockchain
Check out this webinar to explore the benefits that blockchain offers by supplying trusted data that can be shared across interconnected networks in digital marketplaces.
Blogs: Blockchain in food safety
Get the inside scoop on how IBM Food Trust™ makes food traceability possible — tracking products to their source for enhanced food authenticity and safety.
Blockchain developer center
Learn how to start developing with the open source Hyperledger Fabric and IBM Blockchain.
Next steps
Join an existing network or co-create your own with our experts
As the industry’s leading blockchain services provider, IBM Blockchain Services can help you build the scalable business network you want, underpinned by the best technology — or we can help you join a network that’s already in place. Our more than 1,600 blockchain experts use insights from 100+ live networks to help you address three key design points: governance, business value and technology.