Special Interest Group
Trade Finance Special Interest Group (CMSIG)
Report Author(s)
Andrea Frosinini SIG Chair
TFSIG Overall Health
The TFSIG meetings are held on a bi-weekly basis, usually at an APAC region-friendly time slot (8:30am BST) but increasingly we have also had meetings to cater for the America timezone in the afternoon BST. We have also livestreamed on Hyperledger YouTube Channel.
This year the SIG meeting attendance has been growing consistently, with up to 80 people at times. This has partially been due to our ability to leverage the TFSIG Linkedin website. Meeting topics touched so far have been of great interest and notable guest speakers have help drive attendance. The creation of the first LinkedIn site for a SIG turned out to be a winning choice as so far it has managed to gather an audience of more than 1,200 practitioners from both BC and TF space.
Issues
In spite of the good attendance, we still have the ambition to contribute some SIG focused projects in the future.
We are finalizing the change in the governance to a co-chair structure with Andrea Frosinini and Markr Cudden. This we hope will help us better scale and create wider collaboration and contribution.
Activity in the Past Quarter
The TFSIG has had great participation and has been particularly successful in attracting increasing involvement from international institutions involved in TF a key success factor for future projects.
During the first semester we focused our activities around the iInternational adoption of ML ETR and the shaping up of DLT-native standards and solutions.
Of particular interest, were the following meetings:
- A Primer on DLPC: A New Financial Asset and Standard for Global Trade (Feb 10th)
- How to apply DLTs to negotiable instruments thanks to legal and regulatory developments (March 16th)
- GLOBAL TRADE: trade finance and logistics intertwined (Apr 12th)
- https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/webinars/paperless-promissory-notes-on-dlpc (Apr 20th)
- MLETR Legal Principles and Implementation & Singapore Trade Trust (Apr 26th)
- Call to strengthen Open Collaboration among all Hyperledger Working Groups, Special Interest Groups and Chapters (Jun 15th)
Planned Work Products
- "Breaking the silos / bridging the silos" project;
- Hyperledger Cactus in a Trade and Trade Finance cycle (w/Peter Somogyvari of Accenture);
Participant Diversity
Date Published
2021-08-11