We.Trade Co-Founder Mancone Is Leaving the Enterprise Blockchain Firm

Roberto Mancone, the charismatic chief operating officer of trade finance platform we.

Trade, Mancone said he was proud to have led the platform as it became a legal entity and to have seen it grow from seven banks to 14.

During his time at the helm of the IBM-based platform, Mancone saw we.

Trade became one of the first enterprise blockchain projects to go live, out-flanking all its rivals in the busy trade finance distributed ledger space.

Trade's member banks for the progress they had made.

"I admire the courage of the banks for entering into something so innovative in a highly regulated environment," he said.

Trade could join forces with IBM and Maersk's Tradelense and other supply chain platforms.

When all the stakeholders belong to the same industry they are not fundamentally changing the business model, noted Mancone, they are just trying to make things more efficient than previously.

Trade at the end of April by Ciaran McGowan, who will take the title of general manager.

McGowan does not come from a trade finance or banking background, having previously held technical delivery management roles with Alcon/Novartis, Retail inMotion, Pharmapod, Bank of Ireland, KBCBank, Fineos and Eontec.