March 2025
The Insights Forum roundtable, titled From Data and Models to Impact: Inclusive Digital Trade and Finance, brought together key industry leaders and policymakers on November 4, 2024, under Chatham House Rules. Hosted by Pamela Mar, Managing Director, ICC Digital Standards Initiative, and Ivan Mortimer-Schutts, Financial & Digital Markets Advisor, Dataswyft, the session explored strategies to harness secure and interoperable data flows to drive inclusive trade and finance, particularly for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and underserved markets.
Structured around three core themes—integrating digital trade and finance, leveraging technology for inclusion, and the policymaker's role in promoting interoperability—the discussions aimed to identify inclusive, sustainable solutions. This report synthesises key insights and proposed actions to unlock the potential of digital trade and finance for SMEs while fostering innovation and mitigating associated risks.
*The roundtable participants included discussants from Swift, FNA, Proxtera, Magnati, Siemens, BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong, BlueOnion, and PingCap / TiDB.
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