Digital trade: A reality check

In the latest GTR Trade Insights podcast episode, we sat down with some of the leading voices in digital trade – Joshua Kroeker, CEO of Mitigram; Merisa Lee Gimpel, founder of Digital Trade Works and product enablement lead at Enigio; and Patrick DeVilbiss, head of product for trade and supply chain finance at CGI – for a candid discussion on why digital trade adoption has proved so difficult, what the industry got wrong and where the next wave of innovation may come from.

Read the full article: https://www.gtreview.com/magazine/gtr-issue-2-2026/digital-trade-a-reality-check

June 21, 2026

Digital trade: A reality check

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