Envoy is pleased to announce its newest members, and welcome them to her growing teams. Josef Afram: Advisor He is a writer, sportsman and Spanish trader. In 2000 he founded the company Caltal promotrading

What’s the point of fancy new technologies if they can’t make your life easier, more productive or maybe even both? Envoy uses blockchain to accomplish this in several ways: No more paper: Trade finance

Imagine a bridge that could only be crossed from one side. People on the opposite bank of the river can’t cross the bridge and don’t get to experience any more mobility across the river than they ever

Trade finance goes back way farther than you might think. Try 5,000 years in ancient Mesopotamia. Babylonian clay tablets dating back to that time give us the very earliest known examples of promissory

Want to build spaceships? You won’t get very far without understanding terms like Einstein’s theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics… and others. We aren’t rocket scientists, so how should we know?

Why do you need to know what type of oil fuels your car? Trade finance is a major type of fuel, but it runs the global economy rather than your car. In fact, a significant portion of global trade wouldn’t

Envoy is all about changing the way trade finance is conducted, from allowing multiple financiers to fund the same contract to giving the gift of full transparency to cut off funding to armed groups and

There are several different types of stakeholders that are a part of the trade finance ecosystem. Buyers, sellers and financiers are the broadest terms that can possibly be used to describe these parties

Importers, exporters, banks, syndicates, trade finance houses, export credit agencies, insurers and many others have a huge stake in the business of trade finance. It drives global trade by mitigating

Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road… well, it would be nice at least if developing a revolutionary new business were as easy as strolling down a prettily paved path. But businesses

Trade finance and the entire supply chain industry are overdue for an upgrade, perhaps even a little disruptive unrest — anything to change the status quo and shove operations into the 21st Century with

Though most well-known for supporting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin that have seemingly little use in the real world, blockchain is in fact set to upend the status quo in any number of unsuspecting industries,

Envoy is all about creating opportunity. Where the traditional trade finance industry is limited by its excessive use of rubber stamps and paper as well as its entrenched culture of funding big powerful

The trade finance system isn’t quite obsolete, but it’s definitely antiquated. Inefficiencies within this process are holding back the global economy and the entire system is failing to meet the demands

How many of us have ever wanted to change the world? There is a wide range of activities and projects we can pursue to follow that ambition, from going into politics or journalism or working on the ground