Trade finance on blockchain moves to full commercial production

A soybean trade between two arms of Cargill using letters of credit from HSBC and ING shows the R3 Corda platform is finally set to scale up.

 

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Last week, HSBC and ING Bank successfully executed a live trade-finance transaction for international food and agriculture conglomerate Cargill using R3’s Corda blockchain platform.

This was a bulk shipment of soybeans from Argentina, through Cargill’s Geneva trading arm to Malaysia, with Cargill’s Singapore subsidiary as the purchaser. A letter of credit (LC) was issued using Corda by HSBC to ING. The two banks were acting on behalf of the Cargill organizations.

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