For Heads of Trade Finance & Trade Operations
Process more trade transactions with the team you already have.
Trade AI takes the manual document review and discrepancy loops out of your workflow — without adding operational risk.
Letters of credit, invoices, bills of lading and certificates still get read line by line. Every discrepancy triggers another repair cycle, and your most experienced specialists spend their day on documents that were fine. Trade AI reads the full document set, applies your checks consistently, and puts your specialists only on the exceptions that genuinely need judgement.
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
The throughput problem
Your capacity ceiling isn’t your team. It’s the manual work in front of them.
Trade finance teams are under pressure to process more transactions, run more compliance checks and handle growing document volumes — while holding accuracy and turnaround times. Four bottlenecks show up again and again in trade finance operations.
Manual document processing
Letters of credit, invoices, bills of lading and inspection certificates must often be reviewed manually. This creates delays and limits how quickly teams can process transactions.
High exception and discrepancy rates
Document inconsistencies frequently require investigation and escalation, creating additional work for your most experienced trade specialists — the people you can least afford to spend on routine review.
Scaling without adding headcount
As transaction volumes grow, many banks struggle to increase processing capacity without hiring more staff or accepting more operational risk.
Fragmented workflows across systems
Trade data moves between multiple systems, email threads and manual review steps, creating inefficiencies and increasing the risk of errors that surface late.
Each of those loops carries a cost. Conpend’s 2026 Trade Finance Value Leak Report finds €12 million in annual operating costs trapped in trade finance operations.
How Trade AI works
One workflow, from document intake through to a decision you can evidence.
Trade AI is a trade finance assurance platform: it structures the documents, orchestrates the workflow and embeds the checks, so every transaction is handled the same way and every decision leaves a record behind it.
01
Capture data and documents
Documents arrive from any channel and are classified automatically — LCs, invoices, bills of lading, inspection certificates and the rest of the set.
02
Structure and analyse
Unstructured files become structured trade data, ready to be compared field by field across the whole transaction.
03
Apply trade-specific decision logic
Document examination, discrepancy analysis, sanctions and counterparty screening, dual-use goods and vessel checks, and your own internal policy controls.
04
Capture evidence and audit trail
Every data point, decision, override and escalation is captured automatically as the case moves — not reconstructed afterwards.
What that replaces in your day
- Page-by-page document examination on transactions that have no issue
- Email chains to chase a discrepancy between two documents
- Re-keying trade data between the trade platform and your checking tools
- Manually assembling the evidence pack when audit asks about a decision
- Senior specialists reviewing routine cases because nobody else can
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 your team
Same headcount. More throughput. Same standard of decision.
01
Faster transaction processing
Automated document extraction and classification reduces manual review time and accelerates transaction handling.
02
Fewer operational bottlenecks
Structured workflows keep cases moving between teams, cutting the delays caused by email loops and manual handoffs.
03
Greater operational visibility
Dashboards and reporting give you clear insight into transaction volumes, processing times and workflow performance — by team and by corridor.
Proof
Trusted by trade operations leaders at global banks.
“The app has delivered more than we expected quicker than we expected.”
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 operations leaders ask us first
The fair questions, answered straight.
“AI won’t read our documents reliably. Ours are a mess.”
With the right training, Trade AI can achieve accuracy levels exceeding 90%, combining structured rules, large language models and trusted data sources — and it shows you the source document and field behind every extracted value. Where confidence is low, the case routes to a specialist instead of being auto-approved. That human-in-the-loop design is deliberate: the platform is built to remove routine review, not expert judgement.
“We are not replacing our core trade platform.”
You don’t have to. Trade AI is designed to extend existing systems rather than replace them, and integrates with established platforms including Finastra, Temenos, CGI and Iron Mountain. It adds the decision and assurance layer on top of the trade processing environment you already run.
“Our specialists won’t trust output they can’t interrogate.”
Every alert, discrepancy and approval is traceable to the document, extracted data point and rule that triggered it. Analysts see why a case was flagged, can override with a captured rationale, and the reasoning stays attached to the transaction long after it settles.
“We don’t have capacity for an eighteen-month programme.”
The review is deliberately short and runs against your own document set, so scoping starts in the first conversation rather than after a discovery phase. ING’s trade operations team put their own experience like this: “The app has delivered more than we expected quicker than we expected.”
“I need a business case before I can take this internally.”
That is exactly what the 30 minutes is for. We work through where your throughput is capped today — repair cycles, discrepancy loops, escalation volumes — and you leave with the numbers in a form you can put in front of your COO.
FAQ
Before you book
Trade AI reads and analyses the full set of documents involved in a transaction — including letters of credit, invoices, bills of lading and certificates — converting unstructured files into structured data that can be compared across the whole case.
No. Trade AI integrates with existing trade platforms and infrastructure including Finastra, Temenos, CGI and Iron Mountain. It is designed to extend those systems, letting you introduce advanced trade decision capabilities without disrupting your core trade processing environment.
Trade AI supports on-premises, private cloud or hybrid deployment, with role-based access control across operations, compliance and risk teams. Conpend holds ISO 27001:2017 certification for information security management.
Cases that need judgement are routed to a specialist rather than auto-approved. Policy overrides are captured with their rationale, and the full decision history stays attached to the transaction for audit and investigation.
Thirty minutes, online, with a Conpend trade specialist — not a generic sales overview. We look at where your throughput is capped, show Trade AI against a document set that resembles yours, and outline what a first phase would cover. No preparation needed.
Book your review
Find out where your throughput is actually going.
Thirty minutes with a Conpend trade specialist, online. Pick a slot below — you’ll have the calendar invitation straight away.
What the 30 minutes covers
- Where your capacity is capped today, against your own volumes
- Trade AI running on a document set that looks like yours
- How the assurance layer sits next to your existing trade platform
- Indicative scope for a first phase, and what it would take internally
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