For Heads of Financial Crime & Compliance Directors
Make every trade decision defensible — before anyone asks you to prove it.
Trade AI embeds sanctions, TBML and policy controls into the trade workflow itself, and evidences every decision as it happens.
Trade finance compliance sits at the intersection of complex documentation, evolving regulation and operational pressure. When controls live in separate systems and escalations run over email, the audit trail has to be reconstructed rather than read. Trade AI screens every transaction consistently and captures the evidence automatically — so the answer to “show me how you decided this” already exists.
30 minutes, online · No preparation needed · Your systems, your scenarios
Conpend in numbers
- 40+global banking organisations trust in Conpend
- 50M+automated trade finance checks every year
- 10+years supporting global trade finance
Trusted by leading organisations in global trade finance
- BNP Paribas
- ING
- UniCredit
- Commerzbank
- Santander
- Belfius
- Danske Bank
- Maybank
- Intesa Sanpaolo
- BankABC
Why trade is harder to govern
Global regulators are asking harder questions about trade than ever.
Regulators and organisations such as the Financial Action Task Force are increasing scrutiny of trade-based money laundering risk, and the expectation now is a transparent, well-governed trade decision process. Even relatively small trade portfolios must meet the same standards of governance, screening and auditability as global institutions.
Fragmented compliance checks
Sanctions, TBML, KYC and policy controls often operate across separate systems and teams, creating inconsistent decision-making between desks and jurisdictions.
Limited visibility into trade workflows
Compliance teams often see transactions only after an issue has surfaced, rather than having oversight built into the process itself.
Weak or inconsistent audit trails
Manual processes and email-based escalation make it difficult to reconstruct decisions during internal or regulatory reviews — sometimes years later.
Rising regulatory scrutiny around TBML
Authorities are increasingly focused on vessel activity, dual-use goods, sanctions circumvention and transaction behaviour patterns.
Without structured workflows and automated evidencing, compliance teams are forced to rely on manual judgement and reconstruction — increasing both operational cost and regulatory exposure.
How the controls work
Compliance inside the workflow, not a check after it.
Trade AI integrates compliance controls directly into the trade processing lifecycle, so every transaction is screened consistently and documented automatically. Instead of relying on after-the-fact checks, compliance becomes part of the operational workflow itself.
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Screen every transaction
Automated sanctions and embargo screening runs on every case, against the same rule sets and intelligence sources every time.
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Detect trade-specific risk
TBML red flags, vessel activity and maritime risk, dual-use goods checks, and counterparty ownership and risk classification.
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Route what needs judgement
Cases that require an analyst reach an analyst. Policy overrides are permitted — and captured with the rationale behind them.
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Evidence it automatically
Every action, decision and escalation is logged and time-stamped, traceable back to the source document, extracted data and applied rule.
Controls Trade AI applies on every case
- Automated sanctions and embargo screening
- Trade-based money laundering red flag detection
- Vessel activity and maritime risk monitoring
- Dual-use goods classification checks
- Counterparty ownership and risk classification
- Every decision and override in an auditable record
What a first session gives you
- Trade AI against your own documents and control rules — not a canned demo dataset.
- A deployment answer for your environment: on-premises, private cloud or hybrid.
- Where the platform sits against your security requirements — Conpend holds ISO 27001:2017 certification.
What it means for compliance
Consistent controls, defensible evidence, earlier detection.
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Consistent compliance controls
Every trade transaction is evaluated against the same rule sets and intelligence sources, reducing inconsistent decision-making across teams and jurisdictions.
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Defensible audit trails
Every action, decision and escalation is automatically logged and time-stamped — clear evidence during internal audits or regulatory investigations.
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Reduced TBML exposure
Automated checks across vessels, goods, counterparties and transaction behaviour surface potential trade-based money laundering risk earlier in the workflow.
Proof
Trusted by compliance and transaction banking leaders.
“Conpend’s Trade AI is our trusted business partner in automating and improving our trade related compliance processes.”
Recognition & certification
- GTR Leaders in Trade 2026 — shortlisted
- IBS Intelligence Global Innovation Award
- ISO 27001:2017
- GLEIF LEI registered
Integrations & platform partners
- Finastra
- Temenos
- CGI
- Iron Mountain
- Surecomp
Screening & intelligence sources
- OFAC, EU & UN lists
- Dow Jones
- Refinitiv
- LexisNexis
- Lloyd’s List Intelligence
- S&P Global
- MarineTraffic
- LEI databases
What compliance leaders challenge us on
The objections we hear in every first meeting.
“We already have an AML and sanctions platform.”
Trade AI complements existing compliance systems rather than replacing them, by embedding screening and policy controls directly into the trade workflow. The difference is that it was built for trade finance, not adapted from generic AML: it works at document level, and it checks vessels, dual-use goods, trade routes and counterparty structures that payment screening never sees.
“We can’t have software making compliance decisions.”
It doesn’t. Automated decision support handles classification, extraction, screening and routing; complex judgement calls, investigation of high-risk transactions and final sign-off stay with your team. Overrides are allowed by design — and captured with the rationale, which is often the part auditors care about most.
“Our audit trail has to survive a review years after the transaction.”
In regulated environments, decisions have to remain explainable long after processing. Each outcome traces back to the underlying source documents, the extracted data and the rules applied, so audit reviews, regulatory enquiries and financial crime investigations are answered from the record rather than reconstructed from memory.
“New technology has to clear our governance framework first.”
Trade AI is designed to operate inside regulated banking environments: on-premises, private cloud or hybrid deployment; role-based access control; segregation of duties across operational and compliance teams; and secure, audit-ready reporting. Conpend is ISO 27001:2017 certified and is registered with the Global Legal Entity Identifier system (LEI-72450003PQJAIXUI4X36).
“We already licence Dow Jones and Refinitiv — are we paying twice?”
No. Trade AI enriches each transaction using leading global compliance and trade intelligence sources, including the ones you already hold. It brings those feeds into the trade decision itself rather than duplicating them.
FAQ
Before you book
Automated sanctions and embargo screening, trade-based money laundering red flags, vessel activity and maritime risk, dual-use goods checks, and counterparty ownership and risk classification — applied consistently to every transaction.
Trade AI enriches every transaction using authoritative global sources including OFAC, EU and UN sanctions lists, Dow Jones, Refinitiv and LexisNexis for sanctions, adverse media and PEP screening, Lloyd’s List Intelligence, S&P Global and MarineTraffic for vessel and maritime risk, and LEI databases for counterparty verification.
No. It complements existing compliance systems by embedding screening and policy controls directly into trade workflows, and integrates with wider enterprise platforms including Finastra, CGI, Iron Mountain and Temenos.
Conpend aligns its models and decision logic with recognised global trade finance and financial crime authorities, including the Bankers Association for Trade & Finance (BAFT), the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Banking Authority (EBA). Conpend also holds ISO 27001:2017 certification.
Thirty minutes, online. We walk the control set against your own policy requirements, show what the evidence record looks like for a real case, and identify where your current audit trail would be hardest to defend. No preparation needed.
Book your review
See what a defensible trade decision record looks like.
Thirty minutes with a Conpend specialist, online. Pick a slot below — you’ll have the calendar invitation straight away.
What the 30 minutes covers
- Your control set, mapped against what Trade AI applies automatically
- The evidence record for a real case, end to end
- Where your current audit trail relies on reconstruction
- How the platform fits your governance and deployment requirements
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