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- Trade Finance Platform
- Who it's for
- Bank trade finance desks
Bank trade finance desks
A bank's trade finance desk serves importers and exporters with letters of credit and short-term trade loans. Relationship managers bring the deals, credit approves them and trade operations handles issuance and presentations. Every step must show who decided, on what evidence and when.
How Trade Finance Platform is set up for you
Applications with evidence
Contracts, invoices and credit reports are logged with expiry dates before credit decides.
Independent approval
The approver is never the officer who prepared the case.
Issuance from the bank's receipt
A credit is recorded as issued only when the issuing bank confirms it.
Presentations within limits
Each drawing records the document set and the bank's decision, and drawings never exceed the limit.
A bank's trade finance desk serves importers and exporters with letters of credit and short-term trade loans. Relationship managers bring the deals, credit approves them and trade operations handles issuance and presentations. Every step must show who decided, on what evidence and when.
Start with letters of credit for one client segment. Load approved borrowers, migrate open credits with their drawings and run new applications through underwriting for a month. Reconcile outstanding limits with the core banking system before adding trade loans.
[Plan the rollout](/trade-finance-platform/implementation), [review the modules](/trade-finance-platform#modules), and [compare the source data](/trade-finance-platform/data-model).
Features to start with
Letters of Credit
Approve the credit instrument, record the letter of credit from the bank's receipt and settle documentary drawings.
Financing Applications
Record each borrower's financing request with terms and evidence, ready for independent underwriting.
Underwriting Review
Record independent decisions on each application, credit instrument and servicing change.
Roles on the team
- Credit Officer
- Records financing applications and evidence, submits credit instruments and opens loan accounts with their disbursement and schedule.
- Credit Approver
- Independently approves, declines or returns applications, credit instruments and servicing changes.
- Trade Operations Officer
- Records letters of credit from the issuing bank's receipt and records documentary drawings and their settlement.
- Admin
- Maintains organizations, borrowers, team members and access without taking credit decisions.
Set up Trade Finance Platform your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.