Trade Facilitation Industry Competitors

That dark cloud of underperforming assets may have a silver lining. Argent Trading is a corporate trading firm that provides services to companies seeking to dispose of problem assets. Established in 1958, the firm works with midsized and large companies all over the world to help them restore value to challenging assets such as aging and excess inventory, distressed real estate, and underperforming loans....

Providing the tools of the trade for financial trading, CCH International (formerly EmdexTrade) supplies and manages a Web-based platform to facilitate trade transactions for its customers; the 24-hour-a-day platform is monitored for confidentiality and quality assurances....

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is the Scottish government's economic development agency for the communities of Northern Scotland (the Highlands) and the adjoining islands. HIE provides advice and grants to new and existing businesses, helping promote all sorts of commercial ventures....

The Scots are enterprising people, as anyone familiar with the lives of Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, and James Watt would attest. Scottish Enterprise taps into that legendary creativity, helping new and existing Scottish companies with funding and expertise....

Active Media Services, which does business as Active International, has turned corporate barter into an art form, and a profitable one at that. The corporate trading firm acquires underperforming assets, including surplus inventory, capital equipment, real estate, and receivables....

Savvy Casanovas claim a little Ravel can maximize the success of a rendezvous and minimize wasted time. Bolero International claims to do the same for international trading, providing a secure electronic platform through which clients can share information regarding inventories, logistics, and accounts payable and receivable....

Who says the barter system is dead? Not International Monetary Systems (IMS). IMS runs one of the world's largest trade exchanges, or barter networks, that can help businesses convert excess inventory into goods and services. Serving more than 18,000 business customers in some 50 US markets and Canada, the company operates the IMS Barter Network....

ITEX provides a business-to-business payment system for corporate members through a licensed broker network across the US and Canada. In lieu of cash, some 24,000 member businesses of the company's ITEX Marketplace barter time-sensitive, slow-moving, or surplus goods and services valued in ITEX dollars....

The TEP Exchange provides an advanced online exchange platform for the trading of Traded Endowment Policies (TEPs). The Exchange links 10 market makers with independent financial advisors (IFAs) in a secure environment where they can buy and sell TEPs. It contains the market makers' buying criteria and displays the best offers on the system....

The Clearing Corporation (CCorp) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continually matched throughout the day, CCorp substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts....

A shipment spoiling because of customs delays? Perish the thought! The Perishable Specialist, Inc. (P.S.I.) serves as a licensed customs broker, helping its clients cut through the maze of red tape strung up by such agencies as the US Customs Service, the Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration....

This company's more about imports and exports than it is about a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle. TradeCard provides domestic and international trade services, specializing in financial supply-chain management, including accounts payable and receivable management, purchase-order approvals, payment decisions, and settlement....