Areas of interests

• Trade Finance Consortium Landscape (who’s who directory)
• Trade Finance Consortium Governance (corporate governance formation, ongoing corporate governance, business operations );
• Trade Finance Consortium Standards (business standards, technical standards).

Scope

The activities  would  include:

• Documenting market initiatives, corporate practices, operations.
• Identifying related reference architectures or business cases (for example business or technological consortium.
• Sharing stories of successes, failures, opportunities and challenges. 
• Exploring and addressing cross-industry corporations, options and decisions.  
• Identifying existing or needed common critical  issues in strategy,  formation, governance, operation processes.
• Working towards proposing solutions to the problems identified.
• Collecting and  sharing best practices around blockchain consortia or  facilitating introductions between companies who want to join existing consortia.
• Identifying conferences or other opportunities to connect face to face, as well as submit talks or present as a group at an event.
• Identifying the business community and building an inclusive platform for early adopters to contribute through their experiences. 
• Identifying all different common practices across Hyperledger TFSIG so as to build a standardization across the different parties and efforts. 

Work products

The anticipated initial work products will include (but are not limited to) a set of documents describing Consortium model formation governance & operations. 

All members of the group are entitled to submit a lecture proposal with the intent of showing a useful business case cooperation.

All the participants are invited to share their experiences providing a use case in terms of business origination, formation, governance, operation. At the end of each meeting the lecturer will provide his “key rule” according to his presentation that will be inserted in a collector of best practices that should support all the members in the operations. The CGO-SI has also the intent to support further development cross industries identifying through presentations common ground for cooperation.

Meetings

Interested parties

The following individuals have already expressed an interest in joining this special group, and we hope they will become contributors over the first year:

- List of interested parties listed with their consent, including name, association, and optionally email addresses.

Project lead

The following individual Mr. Eugenio Reggiani has volunteered to serve as a project lead.