Context. An APAC-based trade finance company providing working capital to SME suppliers in data-opaque emerging markets across multiple countries. The customer is anonymised.

The problem

Unstructured documents in local languages. Every file arrived in a different format and language. Validation was manual and slow.

Deal flow slowed by KYC. Compliance work sat on the critical path of every transaction. Operational cost rose with volume.

Spreadsheets could not satisfy funders. Institutional funders required bank-grade, audit-ready evidence. Manual records did not meet that standard.

What we did

The AI Data Room. Read and translate the file automatically. Unstructured documentation was ingested and translated, then assessed against the checks the team defined.

Ingest and translate documents in multiple local languages.

Run sanctions and ultimate-beneficial-owner checks on every case.

Return each check as pass, flag or fail with the evidence attached.

Market Watch. Monitor the supply chain continuously. Threat monitoring ran continuously rather than at the point of onboarding.

Scan news and regulatory feeds against the counterparty list.

Score each signal for relevance to the book.

Surface supply chain threats before they reached the portfolio.

Audit-ready cases. Produce the evidence funders asked for. Structured investor cases were produced automatically as the work happened.

Build a structured case for each transaction automatically.

Keep the evidence and reasoning attached to every decision.

Present a consistent, auditable process to institutional funders.

The impact

50 percent reduction in analyst workload. Analysts moved from document validation to credit judgment.

24/7 supply chain threat monitoring. Counterparty signals were picked up continuously rather than at review.

$75m-plus institutional facility secured. Audit-ready cases met the standard the funder required.

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