by Jake ClaverISO 20022, blockchain payment APIs, and pacs.crypto: taking the paper out of global trade
ISO 20022, blockchain payment APIs, and pacs.crypto move trade paperwork onto digital rails. It names real organizations and documents, so the claim can be checked.
The Paperwork Layer
This material links the ecosystem to trade documents and paperless-commerce standards. Supporting material comes from the Tom Alaerts LinkedIn source post and the ISO 20022 Web APIs whitepaper. pacs.crypto GitHub repository, a technical reference from the organizations involved, states it directly:
> APIs: An Implementation Best Practices White Paper © 2025 – All rights reserved. ISO 20022 Registration Management Group iii Introduction The purpose of this document is to help implementers in the financial services industry define Web APIs, based on new and existing models in the Repository, as defined by the international standard: ISO20022:2013 Financial services — Universal financial industry information model and taxonomy. This document was developed in response to a resolution by the ISO 20022 Registration…
Why Trade Finance Matters For Market Infrastructure
For the broader institutional payments and tokenization stack, this matters because trade finance needs trusted records and interoperable workflows, giving distributed-ledger systems a practical role beyond speculation.
The Trade Finance Screenshot
