Every day, goods travel across oceans, borders, and supply chains long before payments are settled. Behind those shipments lies a complex web of letters of credit, guarantees, documentary collections, and supply chain financing arrangements processes that historically relied on paper, manual workflows, and siloed systems.
For five decades, we’ve partnered with financial institutions to modernize trade.
From early processing platforms to today’s global SaaS ecosystems, we’ve worked alongside banks to transform trade finance from fragmented, paper-based operations into digitally connected, data-driven networks that support global commerce at scale.
The evolution of a market-leading global trade platform
Since our founding in 1976, we’ve collaborated with banks to help process and manage their most critical operations. As trade volumes soared and regulations intensified, this collaboration became the bedrock of our innovation, leading to the development of CGI Trade360.
For more than two decades, CGI Trade360 has provided a single global instance model that unifies front-, middle- and back-office trade operations. Designed for scalability, workflow automation, and imaging, it has continued to evolve to address market needs and embed the latest technological innovation. Now delivered via a cloud SaaS model with AI-driven features, the platform supports more than 15 million transactions annually in nearly 100 countries .
Supporting global banks at scale
As trade finance continues to grow more complex, banks require more than just software. They require resilient, globally consistent platforms that can navigate regulatory variation, alongside flexible regional straight-through processing capable of scaling with rapidly growing transaction volumes.
CGI Trade360 has matured into an award-winning integrated platform that today supports:
- “Systemically important” banks operating at scale
- Global trade operations with a unified view
- Open banking strategy through countless API touchpoints (clients can choose a third-party solution, which is then seamlessly integrated via our vendor-agnostic solution)
- Corporate connectivity for more than 200,000 users
Through CGI Trade360 and our long-term client partnerships, we help banks:
- Consolidate fragmented legacy systems
- Standardize global trade operations
- Digitize traditional trade and structured trade workflows
- Improve compliance, risk controls, and access to data at various levels
- Enhance corporate client experiences and digital transformation
Moving beyond single-bank systems to networked trade
Trade finance is no longer confined to individual institutions. Increasingly, it operates within multi-bank, multi-corporate ecosystems where data needs to move securely and in real time across participants.
Our focus has been on building the underlying connectivity to support this shift.
We’ve expanded CGI Trade360’s core services with API endpoints and introduced an API gateway that enables banks to integrate more easily with both internal systems and external platforms. This enables real-time data exchange, reduces dependency on batch processing, and creates a more flexible foundation for ecosystem participation.
In practice, this is evident in how our clients are seamlessly connected to the broader trade ecosystem. We’re working directly with banks to support integration with multi-bank platforms such as Konsole. Banks on the CGI Trade360 platform also are extending their reach into adjacent ecosystems, including connections to providers like Taulia and Trade Ledger.
The direction is straightforward. Trade platforms need to be open, interoperable, and able to support real-time interaction across networks. Moving away from document-heavy processes is part of that, but the more meaningful shift is toward data-driven integration across systems and participants.
Expanding global reach
Over the past decade, we’ve continued to expand CGI Trade360’s global footprint. Institutions across continents have selected the platform to modernize and scale their trade operations, including implementations supporting growth in Latin America.
These projects reflect a common objective—enabling banks to compete in a rapidly digitizing trade landscape while maintaining operational strength and regulatory compliance.
Advancing thought leadership
Beyond technology delivery, we play an active role in shaping the future of trade finance as a thought leader. Through partnerships such as the annual BAFT Trade Technology Survey, we generate insights into key emerging trends, including:
- Digitization of documentary trade
- API-enabled connectivity
- Cloud migration strategies
- Data-driven risk management
- Ecosystem collaboration
By combining platform delivery with deep market insight, we help financial institutions navigate both technological change and broader strategic transformation.
Building what’s next in global trade finance
Trade finance rarely makes headlines, yet it underpins the flow of goods that drive economies worldwide. Since our founding in 1976, we’ve been a trusted partner to banks navigating decades of transformation—from paper to digital, from siloed systems to global platforms, and from standalone processing to interconnected trade networks. Today, that journey continues as trade evolves into AI-driven, cloud-enabled ecosystems.
For nearly 50 years, we’ve helped build the foundation of global trade. Now, alongside our growing network of banking clients, we’re shaping what comes next.