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Commodity trading, a multitrillion-dollar industry that still uses pen and paper, is about to be turned on its head

Commodity trading is on the cusp of digital disruption — something that has largely eluded the multitrillion-dollar industry for years. Trading firms and the banks that finance them want to reduce risk in document fraud. Blockchain is one of the technologies that commodity firms want to leverage on to improve tracking.