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Trade Finance Technology

Engineering for the full trade transaction lifecycle

Trade finance runs on documents, rules and multi-party workflows. We bring the domain depth to understand them and the engineering discipline to automate them reliably.

Our team has hands-on experience delivering complex trade finance modernization and integration work. We understand how a letter of credit moves from application to issuance, amendment, presentation, examination and settlement, and where manual effort and operational risk accumulate along the way.

We design and build workflow logic, validation rules, integrations and user channels around that lifecycle, working within the institution's existing trade platform and architecture rather than replacing it for the sake of change.

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  • Letters of Credit

    Import, export and inland LC workflows across issuance, amendment, presentation and settlement.

  • Bank Guarantees

    Issuance, amendment, claim and expiry handling, including wording review support.

  • Documentary Collections

    Import and export collections with document tracking and instruction handling.

  • Workflow automation

    Orchestration of multi-step, multi-role processes with clear audit trails.

  • Transaction validation

    Rules-based checks that catch inconsistencies before they reach an operator.

  • Lifecycle orchestration

    Event-driven coordination of transaction states across systems and teams.

  • Trade finance APIs

    Well-designed APIs that expose trade services to channels, partners and internal systems.

  • Corporate trade channels

    Front-end experiences for corporate clients to initiate, track and act on trade transactions.

Corporate Banking

Simplifying complex corporate operations

Corporate clients expect speed and transparency across payments, trade and liquidity. Behind that experience sit entitlements, approvals and integrations that have to be right.

We engineer the business logic that corporate banking depends on: multi-level authorization, entitlement models, maker-checker controls and the integration layer that connects channels to processing systems.

Our focus is on making these systems easier to change and safer to operate, so new products and client requirements can be delivered without destabilizing what already works.

  • Maker-checker workflows

    Configurable dual control and multi-level approval flows.

  • Entitlement-based authorization

    Fine-grained permission models aligned to corporate hierarchies.

  • Rules-based processing

    Business rules separated from code so operations teams can evolve them safely.

  • Transaction inquiry

    Consolidated, searchable views of transaction status across products.

Digital Channels

Corporate mobile and digital banking experiences

We build secure, API-driven digital channels that let corporate users review, approve and track transactions wherever they are.

Corporate mobile banking is not a smaller version of internet banking. Users are approvers, treasurers and operations staff who need to act quickly on high-value transactions with strong security and clear context.

We have experience integrating secure mobile SDKs into banking applications and building the surrounding experience: authentication, authorization, notifications and the API layer that keeps mobile and web channels consistent.

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  • Mobile application development

    Native and cross-platform applications engineered for regulated environments.

  • Secure SDK integration

    Integration of security, identity and banking SDKs within mobile applications.

  • Transaction authorization

    On-the-go review and approval with full transaction context.

  • Single Sign-On & IAM

    Integration with enterprise identity providers and access management.

  • Push notifications & deep linking

    Timely, secure alerts that take users directly to the task at hand.

  • API-driven architecture

    Shared services that keep every channel consistent and maintainable.

Financial Messaging

SWIFT and ISO 20022 integration

Messaging is where trade and payments systems meet the outside world. We engineer integrations that are accurate, traceable and ready for structured data.

The industry move to ISO 20022 brings richer, structured data, and with it new integration and mapping work. We build message generation, parsing, validation and transformation layers that connect internal systems to financial messaging networks.

We pay particular attention to traceability: every inbound and outbound message should be linkable to the business event that produced it.

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  • SWIFT messaging integration

    Generation, parsing and routing of trade and payment messages.

  • ISO 20022 readiness

    Mapping, enrichment and validation of structured message data.

  • Message transformation

    Reliable conversion between internal formats and network standards.

  • Monitoring & reconciliation

    Visibility into message status, failures and repairs.

Banking Integration

Connecting platforms, channels and core systems

Banks run many specialized systems. Value comes from making them work together cleanly, securely and observably.

We design and build integrations between trade platforms, core banking systems, channels, document systems and enterprise applications, using APIs, middleware and event-driven patterns as appropriate to each institution's architecture.

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  • Core banking connectivity

    Integration with account, limits, customer and accounting services.

  • Enterprise middleware

    Robust message flows with retries, idempotency and error handling.

  • Event-driven integration

    Loosely coupled systems that react to business events in near real time.

  • API security

    Authentication, authorization, encryption and auditing designed in from the start.

Modernizing a trade or corporate banking workflow?

Tell us about the challenge. We will respond with a considered view on how we could help, and who on our team would be involved.