This program includes understanding how the financial world can benefit from using blockchain and distributed ledger technology to facilitate the trade finance process. Trade finance signifies financing for both domestic and international trade transactions that requires a seller of goods and services as well as a buyer. Financial institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, clearing houses, merchants, vendors, and consumers are seeking efficient methods to mitigating risks, reducing costs, and minimizing verification and networking costs to sending and receiving cross-border payments.

Some of the key concepts and take-aways are:

• Understanding the differences blockchain and distributed ledger technology in trade finance.
• Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of blockchain and distributed ledger technology in trade finance.
• Understanding permissionless blockchain and permissioned blockchain as it related to trade finance.
• Understanding a decentralized application (DApp), and how a DApp can facilitate smart contracts involving trade finance.
• Understanding how blockchain and distributed ledger technology can be used to facilitate the Letters of Credit process.
• Understanding how blockchain and distributed ledger technology can reduce trade-based money laundering.
• Understanding how blockchain can reduce fraud.
• Understanding how blockchain and distributed ledger technology can be used in the supply chain process.

Start Time: 930am PT / 1230pm ET

We look forward to seeing you there.

Chris Groshong - President of CoinStructive