Trade finance in the internet age

Trade finance debt totals $3 trillion a year.

But institutional investors largely ignore it.

Complicated, non-standardized documents that require physical delivery are enough to deter all but the most dedicated specialists. Now three former Deutsche bankers have re-emerged from obscurity to break that trend, with the world’s first internet trading platform for this asset class.

This time last year, if Richard Tull invited you to his office, you could be pretty sure of a gin and tonic in the plush surroundings of Deutsche Bank’s Bishopsgate building in London.