Digital adoption in global trade is accelerating, and the industry is now confronting the three forces that determine whether new technology takes hold inside large organisations: compliance, speed to market and implementation. These pressures are reshaping how banks, corporates and logistics firms design the architecture that will carry the next era of digital trade.

To explore how these elements operate in practice, Trade Treasury Payments’ (TTP) Trade and Technology Editor spoke with Przemek Luniewski, Chief Technology Officer at Secro. Drawing on two decades of building and deploying systems across industries, Luniewski explains why trust, identity and security must sit at the core of any digital workflow, how configurability rather than custom development enables rapid change, and why the success of any implementation depends as much on people as on platforms.

His perspective provides a clear view of the technical, operational and human considerations that organisations must balance if they are to move beyond paper and build digital systems that are secure, adaptable and fast enough to keep pace with regulatory and commercial change.