TWIN Foundation

@TWINGlobalOrg

Open-source digital infrastructure for global trade. Developed by @TradeMarkAfrica, @iota, @wef, @InstituteGC, @IOExport & @GATFnews.

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TWIN Foundation
@TWINGlobalOrg
Jun 25
Global trade keeps the world moving, but it’s still trapped in paper. One transaction can involve 30 stakeholders, 240 paper copies and weeks of delays. TWIN is the trusted trade network built to fix that. Watch how in just over 2 minutes. #TrustedTrade
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TWIN Foundation
@TWINGlobalOrg
Sep 9
An exporter pays for the crop, the packaging and the freight long before the buyer pays for the goods. That gap can run for weeks or months. Wages and the next shipment both fall inside it. The more an exporter sells, the more of its cash sits inside that gap. Funding that gap
TWIN Foundation
@TWINGlobalOrg
Sep 7
A funder lending against a shipment needs to know who is holding the goods, and when that changed. Nine separate documents in a trade relate to that transfer of possession, and confirming them from another country means taking someone's word for it. Funders lend on the
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TWIN Foundation
@TWINGlobalOrg
Sep 4
$2.5 trillion of trade finance is requested and declined every year. The goods are real. The buyers are real. The paperwork is in order. Still rejected. Lenders fund what they can confirm for themselves, quickly enough to matter.
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TWIN Foundation
@TWINGlobalOrg
Sep 2
Around 70% of letters of credit are rejected the first time they are presented. The cargo has usually sailed by then, and the exporter waits while the documents go back for correction. The discrepancy is usually clerical. Even so, the exporter is paid weeks after the buyer has
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