Whitepapers
The portable API - Using data standards and structured data for interoperability
Industry efforts continue to focus on achieving trade digitisation, but interoperability remains a key challenge – and while different options have been proposed, each has its drawbacks. A more viable solution is to create freely transferable electronic trade documents that are interoperable both for humans and for machines.
Zertrace Smart Certificates
In the world of international trade, different types of documents are managed for countless purposes; there are a large number of documents that are required by law or regulation for trade or transactions, while other documents are drafted to form contracts or provide data and important information related to transactions. Many of the problems in this market concern fraud or incorrect use of data and information. In Zertrace, we focus on this increased need for trust in the market, that’s why we created the digital original and smart certificates solution, by using blockchain technology to capture important data in a certificate, we achieve an immutable and flexible solution that can be trusted by all.
Factsheet – Fusion Trade Innovation and trace:original
New era digital original documents that are secure, designed to comply with current legislation and are easily transferrable.
Digitize and manage negotiable instruments or documents of title without the need for a central registry or document repository.
The ITFA Digital Negotiable Instruments Initiative – 2nd Edition
In April 2020 the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) released the first edition of this manual closely followed by a paper setting out the Digital Documents (dDOCs) standards which looked at how to practically implement the digitized instruments covered by the manual.
ITFA has published the second edition of the manual incorporating the dDOC specifications in one document to spread awareness of the valuable and implementable resources it contains.
trace:original - A digital original document | How it works
This whitepaper explains how Enigio's trace:original works. The trace:original document is designed to be able to hold all the necessary information to execute a transaction, as a singular document, and at the same time not being tied to a closed ecosystem or infrastructure to do so. Importantly, it can be received and handled by anyone with access to a computer or the internet. Additionally, the trace:original documents are created as Ricardian contracts, meaning that they are completely readable by both man and machine.
The upside to keeping the documents Ricardian is that they can be transferred freely and transparently, without requiring the recipient to have any particular software besides a standard web browser.
Enigio's trace:original and BAFT's Distributed Ledger Payment Commitment (DLPC)
In this white paper, we discuss two approaches to a common problem that arises as the industry attempts to migrate from paper-based trade finance to a more efficient, digital operating model. The whitepaper explains the integration of Distributed Ledger Payment Commitment (DLPC), which was developed by the Bankers Association of Finance and Trade (BAFT), into Enigio’s trace:original documents to create freely negotiable digital payment commitments. It provides insights on the collaborative efforts for increasing the adoption of technological solutions eliminating the need for paper in international trade.
Using trace:original for digitizing documents according to MLETR
This is Enigio's commentary for the UN/CEFACT White Paper on MLETR-compliant
records. Our commentary on the MLETR and MLETR-compliant titles focuses on the use-case, trace:original, for a blockchain-based Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), a Notary Service, working together with an electronic transferable document which complies with and exceeds the current goals of security and integrity in the normal course of international trade. The use-case must be made with regards to the construction of the model law, and so an analysis will be made regarding the relevant articles and general reliability standard to ensure that genuine blockchain supported documents will be MLETR-compliant, and warrant standardized acceptance across borders.
Using trace:original digital original documents to support UK foreign trade
In this whitepaper, we discuss the problems with paper documents and examine three specific use cases where the use of trace:original for creating digital original documents is very easy and delivers significant benefits to all parties involved:
- UK SME/Mid Cap Exporter
- Multinational Corporate (MNC) Payables Finance
- MNC Receivable Finance
Besides reviewing the advantages of digital documents relative to paper documents, we also consider the legal obstacle, under English Law, which is delaying the adoption of digital negotiable instruments.
Articles
DCW speaks with Lars Hansén and Gunnar Collin
To learn about Enigio's work and potential application in the area of trade documents, DCW Executive Editor Christopher Byrnes spoke with Enigio CSO Lars Hansén and Trade Technology Executive Gunnar Collin.
Smarter than Smart Contracts
Gunnar Collin, Enigio’s Head of Sales and Marketing, explains the use cases of Ricardian contracts and how they work as a problem solver in the documentation technology.