The CEO of trade finance digitisation provider Bolero has written an article on risk mitigation in which he says that opportunities for fraud exposed by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic add weight to a growing body of opinion in support of the argument for paper-based trade finance to be ditched in favour of digital alternatives.

Andrew Raymond says banks struggled in 2020 with increased fraud, pandemic dislocations and long term trade frictions with China.

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