Analyses

  • The State of the Industry Report 2024 – Insights on Digital Evolution in Container Shipping

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    Discover ‘The State of the Industry 2024 – Insights on Digital Evolution in Container Shipping’ report, a milestone in the industry’s digital transformation journey. This comprehensive study explores the progress made, the challenges faced, and the role of standards in driving change. Through insights from 400 senior decision-makers and 35 in-depth interviews, the report provides a… Read more

  • In Wallet We Trust: Bypassing the Digital Wallets Payment Security for Free Shopping

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    Digital wallets are a new form of payment technology that provides a secure and convenient way of making contactless payments through smart devices. In this paper, we study the security of financial transactions made through digital wallets, focusing on the authentication, authorization, and access control security functions. We find that the digital payment ecosystem supports… Read more

  • UK – Southeast Asia Trade Digitalisation Pilots

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    The UK – Southeast Asia Trade Digitalisation Pilots (TDP) is a public-private funded project that has facilitated digitalised shipments between the UK, Singapore, and Thailand. The UK government appointed the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore, with support and co-funding from industry partner LogChain, to deliver the project. The TDP builds on the success of the first… Read more

  • The EU Digital Identity Wallet: a New Tool for Remote Signing with Qualified Electronic Signatures

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    The Cloud Signature Consortium welcomes changes to the eIDASRegulation that pave the way for a new and ambitious European digitalidentity framework. At its core is the European digital identity wallet.This will provide EU citizens and residents with a secure and convenient formof digital identification to access public and private sector services throughoutthe entire EU bloc.… Read more

  • +25 projects for EBSI use cases, active in +10 sectors

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    Together, they experiment with EBSI to make information easy to verify and almost impossible to fake. This for better mobility of our citizens, better quality of our products, and better economic development of our enterprises. Source: EBSI, European Commission Read more

  • Key Trade Documents and Data Elements on the Frontlines

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    The Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is on a mission to digitalise global trade by addressing some of the biggest challenges facing governments, businesses and people today. Among the four challenges1we have identified, perhaps the steepest one is around standards for interoperability. With hundreds of electronic and digital standards… Read more

  • Achieving Growth Through Trade Digitalisation

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    With trade in goods valued at £1.7 trillion and services valued at £896 billion, trade matters to the economy. The UK has a unique opportunity to drive economic growth and improve productivity, by digitalising international trade, reducing bureaucracy, and leveraging the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 (ETDA). As the first G7 economy to remove legal… Read more

  • Enabling Standards Development Through Public-Private Partnerships

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    In May 2024, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) began work on a project aimed at enhancing the practical understanding of public-private partnership (PPP) models. The work included examining their use to support standards development for CETs, the role of government in the related activities, and identifying key elements of effective collaborative mechanisms for addressing… Read more

  • Port Community Systems – Lessons from Global Experience

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    The emergence of the Port Community System (PCS). The PCS represents a pivotal development in the world of maritime trade facilitation and logistics. These sophisticated digital platforms enable seamless exchange of information, coordination, and collaboration among the port community stakeholders. By streamlining communication and automating data exchange, the PCS drives efficiency, transparency, and security in… Read more

  • The Use of Insurance Documents in International Trade – Enabling Digitalisation

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    For the past few years, work has been underway to harness emerging technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the insurance industry. The technologies can be harnessed to digitalise cargo insurance documentation. However, one of the barriers to adopting and using digital alternatives is the legal… Read more