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- Meet the team at GTR Asia Our Head of Market Expansion for Asia & the Middle East, Harish B., will be on the ground at GTR Asia 2026 in Singapore, 8-9 September, at Marina Bay Sands. Harish leads Complidata's growth across Asia and the Middle East, working with banks exploring how AI-powered document examination, fraud detection and compliance automation can fit into their trade finance operations. If you're attending and want to talk trade finance, AI, or where TradeSpeed could fit into your operations, drop Harish a message
- 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁. 𝗡𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. In the textbook version of trade finance, documents arrive in a tidy sequence: one presentation, examined, finalised, then the next. On a real operations floor it rarely works that way. Partial shipments land days apart. Instalments arrive on their own schedule. A second and third set turn up before the first is closed. Software built for the textbook version of the work rather than the reality of the day-to-day is not
- The hardest thing to automate in trade finance is judgement. It takes years to build, and the industry is losing it faster than it can replace it. That problem is one of the reasons Complidata exists, and it's why we built an advisory board with the people who have spent their careers developing it. Today we're introducing seven leaders who sit at the centre of global trade, commodity finance and financial crime compliance. Ian Tandy MBE, who led HSBC's trade business across Asia Pacific, chairs it. Around him sit leaders from
- Sibos comes to the Americas this year and once again, we will be there. From 28 September to 1 October, we'll be in Miami for all four days. Every bank on the floor will be asking, or being asked, the same question: what are you doing with AI? We've got an answer worth 30 minutes of your time. 📅 28 Sep – 1 Oct 2026 📍 Booth DISS41, Discover area, Miami Beach Convention Center Book 30 minutes with us: https://lnkd.in/exXegSeA #Sibos2026 #TradeFinance #Complidata
- Next week, trade finance turns its attention to fraud. On 30 June, as part of ITFA Week, the seminar "Fighting Trade Finance Fraud: What eIDAS 2.0 and AI Mean for Risk, Operations and Compliance" takes place in London. Complidata's Alex Gray will present "AI for document scrutiny" in the Artificial Intelligence use-cases session: how AI can support examiners reviewing trade documents, surfacing manipulation and cross-document inconsistencies, strengthening operations and giving examiners a clearer basis for the judgement that
Alumni 2 went on to found or lead
Filip VerbekeFounding Partner→Co-Founder & CCO at Reform
Raoul UllensIntern→Co-Founder & CTO at Gratiago
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