CGI’s Trade360 platform has received three industry recognitions for trade finance technology, highlighting the growing push by banks to modernize trade operations through cloud infrastructure, data, interoperability and automation. The platform supports trade finance, payables, receivables and cash management, and CGI says it processes more than 15.5 million transactions annually across 98 countries.
Trade finance is becoming an increasingly technology-intensive part of banking as institutions look to automate document-heavy processes, connect fragmented systems and support businesses operating across more complex international supply chains. CGI’s latest recognition for its CGI Trade360 platform reflects that transition.
The platform has received three industry distinctions: Best Trade Finance Software Provider from Global Finance’s World’s Best Trade Finance Providers awards, Best Trade Technology Provider from Global Trade Review’s Leaders in Trade awards, and Best Trade Finance Software Provider, Highly Commended from Trade Treasury Payments. These are awards announced by the respective publications, rather than independently measured performance rankings.
The recognition comes as banks increasingly treat trade finance modernization as part of a broader banking technology strategy. Trade finance involves processes such as letters of credit, guarantees, documentary collections, receivables and supply-chain financing, many of which historically depended on manual documentation and multiple systems.
CGI Trade360 is designed as an integrated platform covering traditional trade finance alongside payables, receivables and cash management. CGI offers it through a software-as-a-service model and also supports on-premises deployments for global institutions. Its architecture is designed for multi-bank, multi-currency and multi-time-zone operations.
According to CGI, Trade360 currently supports operations in 98 countries and 348 bank locations, serves more than 247,000 corporate portal users and processes more than 15.5 million transactions annually. Those figures are company-reported and provide an indication of the scale at which the platform is being deployed.
The larger market challenge is substantial. The Asian Development Bank’s latest Global Trade Finance Gap Survey estimates that the global trade finance gap remained at $2.5 trillion in 2025, equivalent to about 10% of global trade. The survey incorporated responses from more than 110 trade finance providers and found that 80% of banks expect demand for trade finance to increase as companies diversify markets and reorganize supply chains.
Digital infrastructure is one part of the response. ADB specifically identifies accelerating trade digitalization as one of its recommendations for addressing unmet demand. Electronic workflows can help financial institutions reduce manual processing, improve information sharing and connect trade transactions more efficiently across counterparties.
For banks, the modernization challenge is not simply moving existing applications to the cloud. Trade finance platforms must connect corporate customers, bank operations, risk systems and external participants while maintaining controls around compliance, security and transaction integrity.
This is where interoperability becomes increasingly important. International trade transactions can involve exporters, importers, logistics providers, insurers, banks, customs authorities and financing institutions. Data that remains isolated between these participants can create delays and additional operational costs.
AI adds another layer to the transformation. Financial institutions are experimenting with AI for document processing, data extraction, fraud detection, risk assessment and workflow automation. In trade finance, where large volumes of structured and unstructured documentation are involved, these applications can potentially reduce the amount of repetitive work performed by operations teams.
The shift is also taking place against a changing global trade environment. Supply chains are being reorganized around geopolitical considerations, regional diversification and resilience. That can create new financing requirements as companies establish relationships with new suppliers, buyers and markets.
CGI says its own 2026 Voice of Our Clients research found that 99% of corporate and transaction banking leaders prioritize modernization, cloud and architecture. Because this is CGI’s proprietary research, the figure should be viewed as a company-reported survey finding rather than a universal measure of the banking industry.
The platform’s recognition also comes alongside awards received by banks using Trade360. CGI says seven institutions—including ANZ, Barclays, Bladex, Comerica, NatWest, RBC and TD Bank—collectively received nine additional trade-finance recognitions in 2026. Those awards demonstrate customer activity around the platform, although they do not independently establish that Trade360 caused the institutions’ recognition.
For CGI, the strategic opportunity is to position Trade360 as infrastructure for a broader digital trade finance ecosystem, rather than as a standalone transaction-processing application. The platform’s combination of trade finance, cash management, payables and receivables creates a foundation for banks seeking to consolidate workflows and expose more digital services to corporate clients.
That direction also places trade finance closer to other areas of financial technology, including open banking infrastructure, embedded finance and banking-as-a-service. Corporate customers increasingly expect banking services to connect with their treasury, accounting, procurement and supply-chain systems rather than operate as isolated banking applications.
The competitive landscape includes specialist trade finance platforms, core banking vendors and large technology providers building cloud and AI capabilities for financial institutions. The differentiating factors increasingly include integration depth, deployment flexibility, regulatory controls, transaction scale and the ability to support international operations.
CGI’s three recognitions therefore arrive at a time when the underlying trade finance market is facing both a technology modernization cycle and persistent unmet financing demand. The longer-term test for platforms such as Trade360 will be whether digital infrastructure can help banks process trade more efficiently while expanding access to financing across increasingly complex global supply chains.
Market Landscape
The global trade finance market continues to face a substantial financing shortfall. ADB estimates the unmet global demand at $2.5 trillion for 2025, with the gap representing roughly 10% of global trade. The organization says supply-chain realignment and market diversification are expected to increase demand for trade finance.
This creates a technology opportunity around digital trade finance platforms, banking automation, interoperability, AI-enabled processing and supply-chain finance. The direction of travel is toward connected workflows that can move trade information between corporate clients, banks and broader financial ecosystems.
For financial institutions, modernization is increasingly tied to the ability to process higher transaction volumes, integrate external data and provide corporate customers with digital services without rebuilding every component independently.
Top Insights
- CGI Trade360 has received three 2026 industry recognitions as banks accelerate modernization of global trade finance infrastructure.
- The platform supports trade finance, payables, receivables and cash management across multi-bank, multi-currency and multi-time-zone environments.
- ADB estimates the global trade finance gap remained $2.5 trillion in 2025, underscoring persistent unmet financing demand.
- AI and interoperability are becoming important components of trade-finance modernization as banks automate documentation and connect digital ecosystems.
- CGI reports that Trade360 processes more than 15.5 million transactions annually across 98 countries and 348 bank locations.
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