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TradeSpeed 2025 product highlights: Powering Operations with Intelligence and Control
This year has been our biggest year for TradeSpeed yet. Our product team delivered two major upgrade versions, expanded check coverage, new modules, and transformative features that give trade finance teams unprecedented visibility and control.
Dec 30, 20253 min read


Mitigram and Complidata enter strategic partnership to accelerate AI-driven transformation in trade finance
Mitigram, a leading digital platform for trade finance execution, has today announced a partnership with Complidata, a specialist in AI-driven trade finance automation and financial crime compliance.
Aug 26, 20252 min read


Developing Trade Finance Expertise: Programs and Initiatives Directory
The trade finance industry faces a critical challenge as experienced professionals retire and institutional knowledge walks out the door. But here's the good news: solutions exist—they're just scattered across the landscape. We've compiled the first TF initiatives directory!
Aug 5, 202513 min read
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Bridging the Gap: Global Perspectives on Trade Finance Operations Expertise Crisis [Webinar recap]
Our webinar 'Solving the Expertise Crisis in Trade Finance Operations brought together practitioners from across the globe to tackle one of the industry's most pressing challenges. We invite you to read some of the key takeaways, topics, and action points from the conversation.
Jun 3, 20257 min read


The Silent Crisis: Understanding the Expertise Gap in Global Trade Finance Operations
While the $2.5 trillion trade finance gap, has dominated industry discourse in recent years, an equivalent crisis looms and threatens to destabilize the foundations of the sector itself: the expertise gap.
May 13, 202510 min read


Complidata Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification, Demonstrating Commitment to Data Security Excellence
The comprehensive audit validates Complidata's robust security infrastructure and practices, offering enhanced assurance to clients and partners.
May 5, 20252 min read


Overwhelmed and Understaffed: TBML Compliance in a Time of Expertise Shortage
Regulatory and AML burdens are growing, and banks are expected to screen transactions more thoroughly than ever. But the trade operations teams are shrinking, aging, or overwhelmed, creating new risks and a new kind of crisis.
Apr 29, 20253 min read


Complidata Elevates Trade Finance Operations Automation with TradeSpeed 4.0 Release
Complidata today announced the release of TradeSpeed 4.0, introducing significant enhancements to its trade finance compliance platform.
Apr 14, 20252 min read


The Global Shift to Paperless Trade: A Regional Breakdown
This article offers a regional breakdown of trade digitisation progress, focusing on the legal frameworks, and what it means for banks.
Mar 21, 20255 min read


Navigating the Changing Regulatory Environment in AML Compliance
This article look at regulatory changes, region by region, and how it is prompting banks to change their AML compliance processes.
Feb 26, 20254 min read


Fighting Trade-Based Money Laundering in a Transforming Global Landscape
Global trade and finance are transforming amid geopolitics, tech advances, and financial crime, challenging institutions and practitioners.
Feb 4, 20256 min read


The Lie Behind the Money: Key Insights from Jeffrey Robinson on Trade-Based Money Laundering
Last week, we had the privilege of hosting Jeffrey Robinson, the renowned financial crime expert and author of the seminal book "The Laundry
Jan 29, 20254 min read


Think Like A Criminal: How Nirav Modi Exploited Global Finance for a Multi-Billion Dollar Fraud
Introduction “To be a jeweller, it’s all about having trust.”. These are the words of Nirav Modi, a man who once dreamt of creating...
Jan 14, 20255 min read


Financial Crime Compliance AI Leader Complidata Recognized in RegTech100 2025
Brussels, Belgium - Complidata, a leading provider of AI-driven financial crime compliance solutions, has been selected for inclusion in...
Dec 11, 20242 min read


Paperless trade finance with Pamela Mar: Key Insights from Sibos 2024
A conversation between Ben Arber (CEO, Complidata) and Pamela Mar (Managing Director, ICC Digital Standards Initiative) at Sibos 2024
Nov 18, 20244 min read


Insights from Across the Globe: Navigating Sanctions, Compliance, and Maritime Risks in Trade Finance
It has been a whirlwind of an event season for us this October, with our team representing Complidata across multiple cities—Bratislava,...
Oct 30, 20244 min read


Bridging the Trade Finance Gap: How Technology is Empowering SMEs in Global Markets
Read on to learn about the gap from a regional perspective, the drivers of the gap, and what has been done (and can be done) to narrow it.
Sep 30, 20246 min read


Wolfsberg MSA Guidance: Practical Approaches to Monitoring Suspicious Activity
On the 1st of July, the Wolfsberg Group issued a Statement on Monitoring for Suspicious Activity . In line with the Wolfsberg Factors...
Jul 25, 20243 min read


Complidata/Huron Panel Discussion: Navigating TBML Risks Using AI and Machine-Learning
A few weeks ago, our CEO Ben Arber got together with our good friend and partner, Huron Consulting's Head of Anti-Financial Crimes and...
Jul 1, 20241 min read


Think like a criminal: How one person stole 13 billion USD from a Vietnamese bank
One of the most talked about fraud cases in the past few months is perhaps the case of Truong My Lan, a property tycoon who stole over...
Jun 4, 20246 min read
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