Standard Chartered completes industry-first pilot of Trade Financing Validation Service provided by MonetaGo over SWIFT

SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Standard Chartered has successfully completed an industry-first pilot testing of the Trade Financing Validation Service provided by MonetaGo over SWIFT, to mitigate the risks of duplicate trade finance fraud on a global scale.

With a view to effectively detecting, deterring and preventing duplicate financing, the Trade Financing Validation Service powered by fintech MonetaGo’s Secure Financing system is the first natively global solution that is interoperable between markets.

Accessible via SWIFT’s global Application Programming Interface (API), the Trade Financing Validation Service provides checks on financing transactions to detect and thereby prevent duplicate financing frauds within domestic markets and cross-border.

Trade finance providers register select document information by sending the information via API. MonetaGo’s Secure Financing system cryptographically hashes the data to create document fingerprints that can be compared with already registered document fingerprints, to detect duplicates. All customer and transaction data are encrypted in compliance with global banking and data protection standards, and the document fingerprints created by the system cannot be reverse engineered to reveal the data that created them.

In addition to preventing duplicate financing between financiers by comparing transaction data and informing financiers of match results, the solution also verifies document data through automated validation against trusted sources such as government authorities and logistics databases.

“Secure Financing overcomes challenges created by information silos, private-private data sharing and data confidentiality within and between financiers, through the use of privacy-preserving technologies including confidential computing,” said Jesse Chenard, CEO and founder of MonetaGo. “A global solution is necessary because duplicate financing fraud occurs both domestically and across borders. The MonetaGo solution was architected to be natively global and interoperable between markets, different financing platforms and ecosystems, to effectively mitigate the risks of trade finance frauds within and across markets.”

During the pilot, which took place during the second quarter of 2022, Standard Chartered tested the deduplication solution using mock data with invoices, bills of lading, purchase orders and warehouse receipts. The platform returned the results of exact matches and suspiciously similar transactions in near real time.

“Through our enhanced SWIFT platform, we are harnessing the power of APIs to enable our community to quickly and easily offer a range of innovative solutions developed by SWIFT and by partners across the financial services ecosystem,” said Harry Newman, Global Head of Wholesale Payments and Trade Strategy, SWIFT. “The Trade Financing Validation Service from MonetaGo is a great example of how a single connection to our platform allows financial institutions to immediately access a wide range of third-party services that can unlock real benefits for their end customers.”

“The adoption of such a solution by key industry players will be key to mitigating fraud and reducing duplicate financing risk in trade finance,” said Samuel Mathew, Global Head of Flow and Financial Institutions Trade at Standard Chartered. “By presenting a global solution to a global problem, the combination of MonetaGo’s technology with SWIFT’s network enables cross-border comparison of transaction hashes to detect duplicates. We are excited by the potential of this solution, and hope to see broad adoption by banks and trade finance providers worldwide.”

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About MonetaGo

MonetaGo provides the first-ever global solution to duplicate financing fraud in trade finance, and is the world’s foremost provider of such technology to prevent both domestic and cross-border duplicate financing.

By reducing fraud in trade finance, MonetaGo’s business activities align with worldwide political and regulatory mandates that empower institutions to sustain supply chains and extend their books of business into new markets and to underserved sectors, all while maintaining privacy and enabling critical real-time decision making.

MonetaGo’s Secure Financing system is proven in production, having been live since March 2018 with substantial transaction throughput.

MonetaGo and its Secure Financing solution have won numerous accolades including Best Fintech Startup in Trade at the GTR Leaders in Trade Awards 2022, Best Solution in Trade Finance at the AMTD DigFin Innovation Awards during the Hong Kong Fintech Week 2021 and Most Effective Bank-Fintech Partnership at the IBS Intelligence Global Fintech Innovation Awards 2021.

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