DNI Initiative Workshop, London, 2023

You have been quite fast to register to our full-day MLETR experience sharing workshop of July 12th. On that day, we will gather at SMBC in London where banks, trade solution providers, working capital platforms and web3 technologists will share their recent progress on policy and product developments related to MLETR, and how to grow SCF origination.

We are now ready to share the agenda and speakers:

09:00   Arrival coffee
 
09:30   Welcome by ITFA Board
Sean Edwards and André Casterman

09:40   Legal keynote – Preparing for the new Act
Sean Edwards, Chair, ITFA

10:00   Business keynote – Raising client satisfaction with digital negotiable instruments
Merisa Lee Gimpel, MD, Solution Development, Lending & Working Capital, Lloyds Bank

10:30   Technology keynote – Putting DLT to work in trade finance
André Casterman, MD, Casterman Advisory and ITFA Board Member
 
11:00   Coffee break
 
11:30   Early adopters on stage: how MLETR supports digital trade
Jon Boran and Poppie Simmonds, Lloyds Bank; David Stafford, Mercore; Richard Fossett, TradeRiver; Mark Abrams, Trade Finance Global Moderated by André Casterman, ITFA

12:30   The role of the e-bill of exchange in expanding Supply Chain Finance 
Moez Thameur, VP Product, Working Capital, Kyriba and André Casterman, ITFA Moderated by Deepesh Patel, Editor, Trade Finance Global
 
13:00    Lunch break
 
14:00   Digitising e-bills of lading as per MLETR and ITFA dDOC – a Corporate case study
Alex Waites, Executive Director, Enigio
 
14:30   Integrating e-bills of lading with trade back-office systems
Ofer Ein Bar, VP Business Development, WaveBL and Gregory Duval, SaaS Sales Director, Surecomp
 
15:00   Coffee break
 
15:15   Multi-bank digital trade technologies – how will they integrate MLETR instruments?
Simon de Monte, Executive Director, Mitigram; Joel Schrevens, Global Solutions Director & Head of European Operations, China Systems Moderated by André Casterman, ITFA
 
15:45   Trading using digital warehouse receipts and looking at interoperability
Udo Klein, CEO, IMP
 
16:15   The Accounting Treatment of Digital Negotiable Instruments – DNI Initiative paper
Wayne Mills, Founder and MD, Atom Advisory
 
16:30   Wrap-up and next steps by ITFA Board Members
 
17:00    Close

We kindly ask you to submit your registration through here, by no later than 5th July.