Letters of credit
Sight, deferred-payment and confirmed credits that connect payment to compliant presentation.
Import · Export
Trade Finance
Confidence across every border.
Instruments and working capital aligned to the real movement of goods, documents and contractual obligations.
31
Trade corridors
€286m
Illustrative annual flow
1.7 days
Document review
93.4%
Compliant first review
Prototype figures are illustrative and do not represent actual bank results.
Transaction design
The right instrument for the commercial risk.
Payment risk, performance risk and funding need different answers. We structure each transaction around counterparties, shipping terms, documents and cash conversion.
Guarantees
Bid, performance, advance-payment and retention instruments for contractual obligations.
Contracting · Projects
Documentary collections
Documents against payment or acceptance where trading relationships are established.
Goods · Documents
Working capital
Pre-shipment, post-shipment and receivables facilities linked to the transaction cycle.
Funding · Cash conversion
Trade corridor view
Flows centred on the Eastern Mediterranean.
Illustrative transaction distribution, shown to explain service capability rather than actual bank volumes.
Illustrative flow by corridor
European Union34%
Middle East27%
Asia22%
North Africa17%
Cash conversion
Finance follows the trade cycle.
A facility can bridge the gap between supplier payment and customer receipt without disconnecting funding from the underlying transaction.
23 days
Illustrative cycle saved
74%
Advance rate
1
Purchase order
Facility agreed
2
Shipment
Documents checked
3
Presentation
Funding released
4
Settlement
Facility repaid
Document discipline
Fewer discrepancies. Faster decisions.
Pre-checking and clear documentary instructions reduce avoidable delays before presentation.
6.6%
Illustrative discrepancy rate
14 hrs
Priority document check
4 eyes
Review control
UCP 600
Documentary credit framework
Transaction path
One desk from structure to settlement.
01
Assess
Counterparties, countries, goods, terms and documentary risk.
02
Structure
Instrument, tenor, security and funding aligned to the contract.
03
Execute & monitor
Issue, advise, examine documents and track conditions to closure.
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