The "KYC Nightmare" in Emerging Markets

Context: A Trade Finance company bridges the $2.5T trade finance gap, providing critical working capital to apparel suppliers in data-opaque regions like Vietnam and India.

Financing thousands of SMEs in volatile markets like Bangladesh required "bank-grade" compliance at fintech speed. Manual KYC was a bottleneck.

Problem: Onboarding a single supplier involved manually validating unstructured documents in local languages. This operational friction slowed deal flow and increased the cost to serve.

The Challenge: Partnering with institutional funders like the IFC required rigorous, audit-ready ESG compliance that manual spreadsheets could not provide.

The Solution: An Intelligent Risk Core

Deployed Risk Llama's Intelligent AI Data Room and Due Diligence Agent for instant verification, risk assessment, case-building, and Market Watch for 24/7 supply chain threat monitoring.

Automated Diligence

The Due Diligence Agent ingests and translates unstructured IDs and licenses instantly. It performs global sanctions checks in minutes, not days, slashing analyst workload by 50%.

Market Watch

An "Always-On" radar that monitors macro-threats 24/7. From labor strikes in Ashulia to port congestion, Air8 detects physical supply chain risks before they impact repayment.

Intelligent AI Case Building

Automated discovery and case building creates structured, audit-ready cases for investors.

Outcome

This transparency was critical in securing their $75M facility with the IFC, ensuring full ESG compliance.