TradeEnabler Announces Strong Institutional Market Validation Following SIBOS 2026 and SWIFT Hackathon

Miami, Florida — October 2026 — TradeEnabler, a programmable financial infrastructure company focused on governance before settlement, announced significant market validation following its participation in SIBOS 2026 in Miami and the SWIFT Hackathon 2026.

Enable Trade. Prevent Fraud. Protect Privacy and Sovereignty.

The tagline reflects TradeEnabler's approach to programmable financial infrastructure: enabling legitimate economic activity while embedding trust, identity, compliance, and governance directly into transactions. It also reflects a core principle of the company's model — that trusted financial communities should be able to operate within their own jurisdictions while retaining appropriate control over identity custody, data access, and disclosure.

TradeEnabler was selected as one of the final ten SWIFT Hackathon 2026 finalists for its Business Challenge submission, “Programmable Trust: Governance Before Settlement.” The company did not win the competition, but reaching the final ten provided meaningful validation of its technology and approach alongside organizations with more than $2 trillion in balance sheets, hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, thousands of employees, and substantial institutional resources.

TradeEnabler participated as a focused startup built on decades of banking, compliance, and operational expertise, with a technology platform designed to address a fundamental challenge emerging across digital finance: how to bring institutional trust, identity, compliance, and governance directly into programmable financial transactions.

Each Hackathon solution presented a different approach to the technical and business challenges, and TradeEnabler's experience provided an important opportunity to demonstrate its TrustSignal Oracle™ approach to programmable governance.

More importantly, the company found that the strongest validation came not from the competition itself, but from the financial institutions and infrastructure organizations it met during SIBOS.

SIBOS Generates Significant Institutional Engagement

Through the SIBOS event application alone, TradeEnabler made hundreds of connections, almost all with financial institutions or individuals directly involved in financial infrastructure.

These were not passive impressions. They represented institutions and financial professionals who saw sufficient relevance in TradeEnabler's approach to actively connect with the company.

TradeEnabler also personally met with many financial institutions during the event.

Many of those meetings were conducted together with Treasury Core, TradeEnabler's first financial-institution founding partner and a Canada-licensed money services business (MSB).

The partnership provided a particularly valuable perspective because Treasury Core is evaluating how programmable governance and digital financial infrastructure can support real-world MSB activities, including:

• Payments associated with project financing, where transaction controls, counterparties, and payment conditions must be clearly governed.
• Identity and trust for emerging-market participants, where establishing trusted counterparties and appropriate compliance controls can be a significant challenge.
• Cross-border financial activity, where governance, identity, and transaction-level controls need to operate across multiple institutions and jurisdictions.

“For Treasury Core, our interest in TradeEnabler is very practical. As a regulated money services business, we see a growing need for greater trust, transparency, and control in cross-border financial activity, particularly when working with project-finance transactions and emerging-market participants. The ability to establish trusted counterparties, verify identity, and apply appropriate governance before funds move has significant potential to improve how these transactions are conducted. Our discussions with financial institutions at SIBOS reinforced that these are not isolated challenges — they are issues being considered across the financial system. We see TradeEnabler's approach as a potential foundation for addressing them while preserving the regulatory and jurisdictional controls that financial institutions require.”
— Peter Yeung, Director, Treasury Core

Treasury Core's participation also enabled TradeEnabler to demonstrate that the underlying infrastructure is not limited to banks. The same governance framework can support regulated MSBs and other financial institutions participating in increasingly digital and cross-border financial ecosystems.

Consistent Demand Across Financial Institutions

Across the meetings, TradeEnabler observed remarkably consistent requirements from financial institutions in multiple regions.

These included:

Correspondent banking.
Banks seeking improved access to correspondent relationships, cross-border payment capabilities, and mechanisms for extending trusted financial relationships into underserved markets.

Treasury, liquidity and deposits.
Financial institutions exploring improved treasury and liquidity management, including the ability to bring regulated bank deposits into programmable financial networks through tokenized deposits. Discussions also highlighted diaspora deposits and the broader opportunity to modernize deposit distribution, connecting capital from diaspora communities and other geographically distributed depositors with regulated banks while maintaining appropriate identity, jurisdictional, compliance, privacy, and disclosure controls.

Emerging and underserved markets.
Banks across Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean seeking greater participation in global financial infrastructure and improved access to international liquidity.

Development and project finance.
Development and multilateral institutions, including organizations such as the IFC, World Bank, IDB, and IMF, where programmable governance, identity, compliance, and transaction controls could be applied to project-finance and development initiatives.

Digital banking.
Technically sophisticated digital banks exploring programmable financial infrastructure and new models for moving regulated deposits and financial assets through digital networks.

These conversations also highlighted a broader opportunity around governed deposit distribution. In markets such as the United States, where brokered deposits already provide an important mechanism for distributing deposits across financial institutions, TradeEnabler sees potential to extend the model through programmable governance and tokenized deposits. Internationally, similar infrastructure could support diaspora deposits and other cross-border sources of liquidity while preserving the regulatory and jurisdictional controls of the receiving institution.

Taken together, these opportunities point to TradeEnabler's central thesis: the challenge facing institutional digital finance is not simply how to tokenize assets or move value. It is how to govern those transactions before settlement.

From Market Conversations to Commercial Opportunities

The SIBOS meetings have already translated into a number of specific commercial opportunities.

TradeEnabler is now engaged with financial institutions exploring practical implementation of tokenized deposits governed by programmable trust using TrustSignal Oracle™, as well as opportunities involving correspondent banking, treasury and liquidity, cross-border payments, development finance, and governed digital assets.

The company has also identified potential partners that could accelerate its international expansion and extend its reach into additional markets.

What is particularly significant is the consistency of the opportunities. Institutions operating in very different jurisdictions and serving very different markets are describing variations of the same underlying problems: how to establish trusted counterparties, satisfy regulatory and institutional requirements, manage identity and disclosure, control transactions, and move value efficiently across borders.

For TradeEnabler, this represents an important transition.

The question is no longer whether these problems exist or whether there is a market for solving them. The focus is now on converting identified institutional demand into structured opportunities, implementations, and recurring revenue.

From Connectivity to Governed Participation

TradeEnabler believes the next phase of financial infrastructure will require more than connectivity between institutions and digital networks.

Traditional financial systems work because participation is governed. Institutions know who their counterparties are, which rules apply, what authority exists, and what controls must be satisfied before a transaction is completed.

TradeEnabler's TrustSignal Oracle™ is designed to bring those principles into programmable financial infrastructure.

Rather than replacing existing banking systems, TrustSignal is intended to provide a governance layer across tokenized deposits, digital assets, real-world assets, wallets, and programmable settlement networks.

One emerging use case is diaspora deposits: enabling members of diaspora communities to place deposits with regulated financial institutions in their countries of origin through governed digital infrastructure. This could allow banks to mobilize diaspora liquidity while maintaining appropriate controls over identity, jurisdiction, compliance, privacy, and disclosure — connecting international capital with local banking and development needs without creating a parallel financial system.

In this model:
Blockchain can validate a transaction. TrustSignal validates whether the transaction should occur.

This creates what TradeEnabler describes as Governed Digital Finance — financial infrastructure in which identity, compliance, institutional policy, counterparty requirements, and other governance conditions can be evaluated before settlement.

The model also recognizes that trust is not necessarily centralized. Financial communities can establish trusted relationships within defined jurisdictions and governance frameworks while maintaining control over how identity is held, when information is accessed, and what information is disclosed.

This approach is particularly relevant to institutions seeking to participate in digital finance without abandoning the governance, sovereignty, privacy, and regulatory structures of traditional financial systems.

The Beginning of a Larger Institutional Pipeline

The organizations TradeEnabler met directly, together with the broader network generated through SIBOS, represent only the initial pipeline generated during the event.

The SIBOS ecosystem has effectively provided TradeEnabler with a highly concentrated network of financial institutions, infrastructure providers, and decision-makers across the global financial system.

The company is now focused on converting those relationships into structured opportunities, pilot implementations, and recurring revenue while continuing to develop its underlying platform.

“SIBOS changed the nature of the conversation for us,” said Joseph Perry, CEO of TradeEnabler.
“We are no longer trying to determine whether there is a market for what we are building. We are seeing the same underlying problems repeatedly across banks, MSBs, and other financial institutions in multiple markets — and, importantly, we are now speaking with identifiable institutions that are asking how these problems can be solved.”

“The SWIFT Hackathon provided meaningful validation of our technology and the problem we are addressing. SIBOS provided something different: direct market validation. The conversations with financial institutions showed us that programmable trust is not simply a technology concept. It is becoming an increasingly practical requirement as regulated financial institutions move toward tokenized deposits, digital assets, and programmable settlement.”

Perry added:
“Our challenge now is execution — converting these relationships into structured opportunities, implementations, and recurring revenue while continuing to build the infrastructure required for the next generation of programmable banking.”

About TradeEnabler

TradeEnabler is building programmable financial infrastructure designed to Enable Trade. Prevent Fraud. Protect Privacy and Sovereignty.

Its platform combines identity, compliance, transaction governance, and programmable controls to support financial institutions participating in tokenized deposits, digital assets, real-world assets, cross-border payments, correspondent banking, and other emerging digital financial ecosystems. At the center of the platform is TrustSignal Oracle™, a governance layer designed to evaluate identity, policy, compliance, counterparty, and transaction conditions before settlement occurs.

TradeEnabler's objective is to extend the governance principles of traditional financial infrastructure into programmable digital finance — enabling trusted communities to participate in global financial networks while preserving appropriate control over identity, data, privacy, sovereignty, and regulatory accountability.