# MonetaGo

> MonetaGo builds digital public infrastructure for trade and finance, best known for its Secure Financing system that detects duplicate financing fraud without exposing sensitive data. By turning trade documents into cryptographic digital fingerprints and checking them against a global registry inside a confidential computing environment, MonetaGo lets banks, TReDS exchanges and central banks verify that an invoice or bill of lading has not already been financed elsewhere - preserving privacy while closing a major gap in trade finance risk.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States (with operations in Singapore and India)
- **Founders:** Jesse Chenard (Founder, Executive Chairman (former CEO))
- **Team size:** ~34 employees
- **Products:** Secure Financing, Trade Finance Registry (TFR), Document Authentication / Validation
- **Notable:** Fraud Prevention Solution of the Year - Asia Risk Awards 2024, Most Innovative Technology Vendor of the Year - BCR Publishing RFIx24 Awards, Best Tradetech - Compliance & Risk - TFG Trade, Treasury & Payments Awards 2023

## Products & services

- **Secure Financing** — A global trade finance fraud prevention registry that creates a cryptographic digital fingerprint of key data from trade documents, registers it in a global registry, and performs real-time duplicate-financing checks inside a confidential computing environment - preserving data privacy. Integrated with the SWIFT API ecosystem.
- **Trade Finance Registry (TFR)** — An interoperable industry utility, built for the Association of Banks in Singapore, that bridges information silos between banks to detect duplicate financing and validate trade data across local and foreign institutions.
- **Document Authentication / Validation** — Registry-based validation services that verify trade documents such as invoices and bills of lading against trusted data sources, detecting tampering, re-ageing and fictitious documents.

## Achievements

- Fraud Prevention Solution of the Year - Asia Risk Awards 2024
- Most Innovative Technology Vendor of the Year - BCR Publishing RFIx24 Awards
- Best Tradetech - Compliance & Risk - TFG Trade, Treasury & Payments Awards 2023
- Best Fintech in Trade - GTR Leaders in Trade Awards 2023
- Best Fintech Startup in Trade - GTR Leaders in Trade Awards 2022
- Live in production since 2018; millions of trade financings secured across India's TReDS exchanges
- Selected by the Association of Banks in Singapore to build a national Trade Finance Registry

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Won Fraud Prevention Solution of the Year at the Asia Risk Awards 2024.
- **2022-10** — Neil Shonhard named CEO; founder Jesse Chenard transitioned to Executive Chairman.
- **2022-06** — Selected by the Association of Banks in Singapore to deliver the Trade Finance Registry.
- **2025-04** — India's TReDS ecosystem - which MonetaGo helps de-duplicate - processed a record $23.6bn in transactions in FY2024-25.

## Links

- Website: https://monetago.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/monetago
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Monetago
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MonetaGo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/monetago

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