Dr Barry Childe
Chief Information Officer
A distinguished engineer with over 44 years’ experience in computing, Barry has extensive knowledge of banking technology solutions across all asset classes.
Inefficient paper-based instruments are being replaced with Digital Negotiable Instruments: their global adoption is underway - improving liquidity, lowering risk and reducing cost.
New SCF programmes make it easier for companies to access their capital and financial assets. The instantaneous creation and acceptance of digital instruments improves cash flow, helping businesses of all sizes.
TradeSecure® has been developed to meet the needs of the UN’s Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR), and is fully compliant with new MLETR-based legislation. Our service allows users to benefit from new legislation that permits the use of digital trade documents.
Arqit protects you against disruption and fraud, and offers you quantum-safe cybersecurity, protecting you and your business from both current and future cyber threats.
The paper-based processes used by current supply chain financing programmes are slow and at risk of fraud. Bloomberg estimates that between 2014 and 2020, the losses to banks from trade finance defaults linked to fraud totalled $9.26 billion (£7.67 billion).
TradeSecure® generates and distributes digital trade finance instruments, protecting finance supply chains against disruption and fraud and improving their cash flow at the same time. Our first-of-its-kind technology can be deployed into any trade financing platform, giving our customers quantum-safe security against all current and future cyber threats.
Using distributed ledger technology, we provide customers with a unique referenceable and transferable digital finance instrument - which is easier to manage than paper-based alternatives.
Arqit TradeSecure® can mint and secure Digital Negotiable Instruments including:
TradeSecure® delivers both a provable digital original on a ledger and a Quantum Seal - meaning that digital instruments cannot be tampered with and their ownership is securely recorded. By creating a highly secure legal instrument that recognises promises to pay for goods or services, we make it easier and more efficient for supply chain participants to conduct trade. TradeSecure’s® DNIs greatly enhance both access to trade finance and supply chain efficiencies, giving our customers faster transaction times, reduced costs, and provably secure transferability of digital finance assets.
Arqit is the first company in the world whose technology meets the UN’s MLETR provisions on the identity, integrity and control of electronic transferable records. Our software is fully compliant with MLETR-based legislation, and allows our customers to secure their supply chains and increase their liquidity.
TradeSecure® uses QuantumCloud™, our unique symmetric key agreement software, which is designed to protect users from the growing quantum threat. An independent review confirmed QuantumCloud™ is zero trust and quantum-safe, and we’ve already provided services to organisations and governments around the world.
A distinguished engineer with over 44 years’ experience in computing, Barry has extensive knowledge of banking technology solutions across all asset classes.
A Board Member of the Institute of Export and International Trade, Dominic has worked in financial services for over 30 years, helping financial institutions optimise their working capital.
Roger has worked in the financial services industry for the last 25 years, creating market-leading technology applications for the trading, credit and insurance industries.
An experienced IT professional, Guillermo spent 20 years at IBM. He is working to build solutions to the quantum threat, and modernising finance and trading, making them safe and seamless.
Imran has over 25 years of investment banking and capital markets experience, working at global institutions including Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Howard’s main focus is on working capital for mid and large corporates, with particular expertise of Bills of Exchange and Promissory note lending, having 40 years’ product experience with large Trade Finance banks.