Transaction banking

Improved trade, supply chain finance and cash management

Trade. Transformed. ^TM

International trade finance is a business in transition, profoundly affected by financial sector consolidation, the move to open account trading, intense competitive pressures, and the drive to reduce operational costs while enhancing customer service. It is also a business where significant changes are being both driven and enabled by advances in technology. Today, banks face real choices in how they manage, optimize, and develop their trade and supply chain finance business - choices that require a clear understanding of the importance of trade and supply chain finance to each individual bank's corporate business and what it is costing them today to deliver this and related services.

With our extensive experience in trade and supply chain finance, CGI provides new opportunities for banks of all sizes to manage their trade, supply chain finance and cash management business for efficiency and for growth.

Trade products

Proven solutions for trade and supply chain finance processing

Along with CGI's unmatched consulting, integration, and implementation services, the suite of CGI trade products is available to help you achieve breakthrough success in trade, supply chain finance and cash management through the intelligent and efficient use of information technology.

Key products

• TradeFlow - An innovative document imaging and workflow application specifically designed and developed for processing of trade finance transactions, CGI's TradeFlow revolutionizes the global trade operations workflow in the context of the bank's existing back-office technology.
• CGI Trade360® - CGI Trade360®, a comprehensive and highly customizable Software as a Service (SaaS), delivers all the software, infrastructure and support resources necessary to power a bank's global trade business. As a result, CGI enables banks to provide the full range of trade, supply chain solutions and cash management anywhere, anytime to their corporate customers.

Also see

• Articles:
• Into Battle (PDF) GTR Sibos Supplement September 2013.  While third-party platform providers have proved their value in enabling multi-bank supply chain finance programs, some banks are increasingly seeing this as their territory alone.
• CGI stays well ahead of the curve with its trade capabilities (PDF) Trade & Supply Chain Finance Special Report September 2013
• CGI Trade360 - Setting a truly global standard (PDF) Trade Finance Magazine September 2013
• Payables and Receivables: the bookends of open account (PDF) Global Trade Review, September 2013
• Achieving operational efficiency in trade finance (PDF)
• Gaining an edge through collaboration (PDF)Trade Finance Magazine, Oct./Nov. 2012. CGI and their clients talk about how they have leveraged the CGI Trade360® solution in their global transaction banking offering.
• The changing face of IT providers (CGI) (PDF) Global Trade Review (12-06). Sibos 2012 saw executives from CGI and business and technology services company Logica join forces to demonstrate the benefits of their combined organisation. Please note that this article is on page 5 of the .pdf.

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