Innovate with Contour’s Future of Finance Lab

Contour’s Future of Finance Lab is shaping the future of trade finance using user-focused and data-driven techniques.

Through a collaborative process with our customers, we look to address your biggest challenges in trade finance today with user-centric, evidence-backed solutions.

Our Lab's Mission

Our mission is to research and develop new and innovative trade finance offerings that disrupt the trade finance landscape to make trade more accessible to all.

Our Process

All innovation ideas are assessed and tracked systematically from ideation to launch using a four-stage process.

This process takes the best practices from industry, incorporates lessons learnt from previous innovation initiatives and enables us to apply a laser focus to ideas with the highest potential.

Click on each of them to find out more.

Stage1: Ideation

Generate ideas through brainstorming workshops, open innovation competitions and surveys

Stage 2: Exploration

Dive deeper into each idea to test the underlying assumptions using user research, market, and competitor analysis

Stage 3: Conceptualisation

Translate and refine ideas to solutions via prototyping, design reviews, user testing and business case development

Stage 4: Development & Launch

Implement solution and prepare for production via development sprints, pilots, testing, and training activities

Our Approach

Collaborative

We believe that a cross-functional team of design, technology, and domain experts is essential to producing robust and practical solutions.

User-focused

We work directly with customers to address their pain points, formulating high-value solutions that simplify and streamline workflows.

Data-driven

In-depth data analysis and business intelligence assures that our digitally native solutions have a sound commercial basis and can achieve mainstream adoption.

Innovation News

The trade digitalisation journey – innovation at Contour

9 May 2022

FG’s Deepesh Patel met with Contour’s CEO, Carl Wegner, and Chief Product Officer, Josh Kroeker, to discuss their approach to innovating in the trade finance space.

Contour’s Next Phase: Tokenising digital trade assets

13 April 2022

Digital assets, like Central Bank Digital Currencies and tokenisation, have the potential to make global trade more efficient, but it must happen alongside the digitisation of trade communication, which is…