The Marco Polo Network facilitates trade finance (payment, financing, risk mitigation, and provision of information for importers and exporters) among a consortium of banks and their corporate clients. TradeIX is the platform provider. Its technology handles all core functions within the network’s open-account trade infrastructure, which operates on the Corda open-source blockchain platform of enterprise software firm R3. Among the 25 banks currently in the consortium are BNP, NatWest, Standard Chartered, ING, Barclays, and Commerzbank. Consortium members pay a licensing fee to participat...