
How can banks make life easier for their corporates clients?
By Jacco de Jong, Global Head of Sales, Bolero International
Corporates engaged in international trade are all too frequently stuck with manual methods despite advancing digitisation in many other areas of professional life.
This manual…

The standards debate continues – Why you need to digitise your trade processes now
By Jacco De Jong, Global Head of Sales, Bolero International
Digitisation of global trade has gained greater urgency since the pandemic but its still a long way off. So many processes still rely on paper documents such as bills of lading…

eBLs; the decades old innovation changing today’s game.
The first use of paper was in China in the 2nd Century BC, and it wasn't widely used by Europeans until centuries later. Paper was certainly a much better medium for recording your shipping consignments than bamboo, silk, or other fibres.
Today,…

Part 2: The next frontier of digital trade finance – Galileo TPaaS for Banks
Anchal Tiwari, Head of Products
For more than 2 decades, Bolero has been at the forefront of Trade digitisation. We have been working with largest corporate clients, banks, and shipping companies to digitise their trade processes and identify…

Our journey with Galileo, the biggest leap in trade finance digitisation yet, pt.1
Anchal Tiwari, Head of Products
Over the course of the last 20 years, international trade has expanded massively with goods and services traded globally now accounting for over 60% of the global gross domestic product.
Although…

Paper is a liability when global trade is under stress
Jacco de Jong, Global Head of Sales
Natural calamities such as the current COVID-19 coronavirus demonstrate how reliance on paper trade documentation continues to expose the global supply chain to disruption.
The International Chamber…

Bolero’s new Galileo platform is the future of trade digitisation
Anchal Tiwari, Head of Products
Global trade is on the cusp of a major digital transformation. Exporters, importers, banks and carriers are continuously trying to streamline paper-intensive operational processes, seeking safer, smarter and…

Helping India blaze a trail from paper elephant to digital tiger
Ian Kerr, CEO
On a BA flight from Delhi to Heathrow I was thinking about the week’s meetings and the extraordinary things that are happening in India. It is an amazing country that is changing quickly.
The Prime Minister Narendra…

Bolero paves the way for trade digitisation in Saudi Arabia through partnership with The Saudi British Bank (SABB)
SABB to become the Kingdom’s first bank offering digitised trade solutions through partnership with Bolero
London, 10th July 2017: Bolero International, the premier trade finance digitisation solution provider has been selected by The…

Jakarta conference focuses on world trade digitisation
Ian Kerr, CEO, Bolero
A strong focus on digitisation in trade finance made the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission’s 2017 annual meeting in Jakarta an environment where Bolero chairman Daniel Cotti and I felt we had…