Trade finance, accelerated: Harnessing the potential of agentic AI to spur digitization, decision-making, and growth

Trade finance continues to be hampered by mountains of paper documents and manual checks, slowing transactions by days and exposing banks to rising fraud and compliance risk. Agentic AI has the potential to change that by automating reviews, surfacing risk in real time, and allowing banks to scale operations without scaling headcount.

Commissioned by Oracle and authored by Celent, “The Quest to Digitize Trade Finance—Next Milestone: Generative AI and Agentic AI” distills how new tech breakthroughs could drive revolutionary improvements in trade finance, providing banks, financial institutions, and partners with a framework to help them move from pilots to production with confidence.

Read the report to explore:

• Where digitization stands today—and why paper-based processes, manual reviews, and fraud remain costly and hinder growth
• How banks can use GenAI and agentic AI to accelerate cycle times, sharpen pricing, and strengthen risk controls—without ripping and replacing
• The tech infrastructure prerequisites for an advanced, AI-enriched trade finance platform
• High‑impact use cases, such as real‑time entity and route screening, anomaly detection, and tighter integration between physical and financial supply chains
• Why investing in AI in trade finance now could help banks grow market share in the near term