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TradeCard News - January 2004
Optimizing Financial Processes in Your Global Supply Chain
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- NEWS: TRADECARD FOURTH QUARTER CLIENT WINS HIGHEST IN COMPANY HISTORY
- NEWS: TRADECARD HELPS SUPPLIERS COMPLY WITH CUSTOMER REQUESTS FOR LATEST AS2 TECHNOLOGY
- NEWS: GLOBAL FINANCE MAGAZINE SELECTS TRADECARD AS BEST ONLINE TRADE FINANCE PROVIDER FOURTH YEAR RUNNING
- NEWS: KURT CAVANO WEBCAST WITH HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
- HEADLINES: RECENT ARTICLES THAT HAVE FEATURED TRADECARD
- CONFERENCES: SEE TRADECARD'S UPCOMING CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
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- TRADECARD FOURTH QUARTER CLIENT WINS HIGHEST IN COMPANY HISTORY
TradeCard has signed up seven new buyer members for its Financial Supply Chain service in the fourth quarter
of 2003 alone, eclipsing the totals from any previous quarter in the company's history. Clients that signed up
or expanded their usage of TradeCard in the last quarter include Burton Snowboards, Linens'N Things and
Wolverine World Wide. Linens 'N Things, one of the leading large format retailers of home textiles, house
wares and home accessories in the United States, expanded their usage of TradeCard to include additional
services and Wolverine Worldwide signed up their upstream supply chain partner Wolverine Leathers.
- TRADECARD HELPS SUPPLIERS COMPLY WITH CUSTOMER REQUESTS FOR LATEST AS2 TECHNOLOGY
Recently a growing number of leading retailers, most notably Wal-Mart, have asked their trading partners to
start using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) over the Internet with AS2. TradeCard's web-based technology
platform supports a number of the latest messaging standards such as AS2 (EDIINT Applicability Statement 2),
as well as legacy communication methods including EDI VANs and FTP. By supporting all of these methods,
TradeCard allows the buyer and supplier to use different connectivity technologies whilst communicating with
each other. This allows suppliers to use older technologies (e.g. FTP, EDI, or simple Internet browsers) for
communication with their buyers even if those are already AS2-enabled. Not having to purchase and install yet
another new system helps especially the smaller suppliers.
- GLOBAL FINANCE MAGAZINE SELECTS TRADECARD AS BEST ONLINE TRADE FINANCE PROVIDER FOURTH YEAR RUNNING
Global Finance magazine has again named the "Best Trade Finance Banks and Providers" by category in an exclusive
survey to be published in the February 2004 issue. Global Finance editors - with input from industry analysts,
corporate executives and technology experts - selected the best trade finance providers, globally and in 42
countries or regions. TradeCard was identified as the best online trade finance system for the fourth year
running. Criteria for choosing the winners included: transaction volume, scope of global coverage, customer
service, competitive pricing and innovative technologies. To read more, go to
www.tradecard.com/languages/EN/news/articles/GlobalFinance4.pdf
- NEWS: KURT CAVANO WEBCAST WITH HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Listen to a webcast with TradeCard's Chairman and CEO Kurt Cavano. In an interview with Martin Evan-Jones of the
Hong Kong Trade Development Council, he discusses the benefits of electronic customs declarations. To listen to
the webcast go to webcast.tdctrade.com/031216_01/e.htm
HEADLINES * HEADLINES * HEADLINES * HEADLINES * HEADLINES * HEADLINES
New article on
www.tradecard.com/resources/newsArticles.html
- Crain's New York Business - Navigating through global supply orders
Other recent TradeCard headlines:
- Maintaining competitive edge through innovative online link - December 15 Hong Kong Trader
- TradeCard and Tradelink provide customs declaration services - December 10 Hong Kong Economic Journal
- Tradelink plans to spend 150 million to build DTTN platform - December 10 Ming Pao (in Chinese)
- TradeCard expects savings in new deal - December 10 South China Morning Post
- Hong Kong government owns 20% of DTTN share - December 10 Ta Kung Pao (in Chinese)
- Exporters save with online customs - December 10 The Standard
- Collaboration station - December 2003 Apparel Magazine
- Packaging and Scanning are New services in online trade - December 9 Economic Daily News (in Chinese)
- Kurt Cavano talks to Catherine Yang at Bloomberg TV about the US-China trade dispute - December 9
- Technology: dematerialisation is not a thing of the future - December 15 Les Echos (in French)
- E-commerce strengthens the Textile industry's competitiveness - December 16 Economic Daily News (in Chinese)
- Maintaining competitive edge through online link - December 15 Hong Kong Trader
- Mixing the trade services cocktail - December 2003 Trade & Forfaiting Review Magazine
- RFID, A New Technology To Trace Goods - December 23 Economic Daily News (in Chinese)
CONFERENCES * CONFERENCES * CONFERENCES * CONFERENCES * CONFERENCES
TradeCard is participating in several industry events in the coming months
- TRADECARD RETAIL WEB SEMINAR: coming in January 2004. Explore supply chain issues in the retail sector with
industry experts and TradeCard executives. Check www.tradecard.com for updates.
- HONG KONG, February 19. Kurt Cavano, TradeCard's Chairman and CEO will talk about "Optimizing the Financial
Supply Chain - Ensuring Hong Kong maintains a competitive edge in International Trade" at a luncheon organized by
the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
- MIAMI, February 26-27. 6th Annual Structured Trade and Export Finance in the Americas Conference - organized
by Euromoney Conferences. Kurt Cavano will talk about "Electronic Trade Platforms - Easing the Pain".
To find out how to register for some of the events TradeCard participates in, go to
www.tradecard.com/resources/events.html
If you have any questions about TradeCard or the above, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
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