BANKING

Trade and Supply Chain Finance

Transforming Trade Finance

International trade finance is a business in transition, profoundly affected by financial sector consolidation, 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 and supply chain finance 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 and supply chain finance 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.
• Proponix® - Proponix provides banks and their corporate customers with 24x7 access to standardized infrastructure and application services on a 'per transaction' basis, hosted in redundant and highly secure data centers and linked by high-speed data networks for maximum availability.

Also see

• Article – Busy in Boston (PDF)
• Article – Supply chain evolution (PDF)
• Article – Tough choices for Canadian banks (PDF)
• Article – “Trade services & the supply chain - LC Automation: A blurry picture” (PDF). Published in the May/June 2007 issue of Global Trade Review-GTR
• Article – “Trade services & the supply chain - Proponix: Building momentum” (PDF). Published in the March/April 2007 issue of Global Trade Review-GTR
• Solution brief – Supply Chain Finance (PDF), how offering SCF solutions will help banks improve their competitiveness and enhance customer relationships.
• White paper - Addressing global trade services processing needs (PDF)
• Article – The Customer Service Revolution. First published in Future Banking, March 2008 (a journal of SPG Media Plc). (PDF)

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