Letters of Credit document checking support for a top Dutch bank

  • 40%

    reduction in cost

  • 100%

    improvement in turnaround time for SLAs

  • 100%

    adherence to regulatory compliance and ICC rules


CLIENT CHALLENGES
  • Capacity constraints in managing day to day volumes and unforeseen spikes
  • Complexities in managing operational efficiency due to non-standardised operating procedures and manual processes with legacy systems
  • Knowledge retention and cross training challenges resulted in additional cost and time
  • Brain drain due to frequent attrition and scarcity of skilled workforce
OUR APPROACH
  • Reviewed and analyzed the existing trade finance process maps to understand the gaps and associated risks in the process
  • Deployed a pyramid-based offshore team of SMEs, based on the complexity of work, to design end-to-end process maps effectively
  • Created standard operating procedures for various tasks and processes inline with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
  • Team has been assigned with clear delegation of authority to handle various tasks for clear visibility and control over each transaction.
  • Initiated support for import document checking for EMEA and APAC and then scaled up to the export document checking in a systematic approach
IMPACT DELIVERED
  • 100% improvement in turnaround time, in line with new SLA, completing all transactions within the day, vs turnaround time of T+1 in the previous SLA
  • 40% reduction in cost through standardization, improving efficiency and quality of the process
  • 100% adherence to ICC rules and regulatory compliance
  • Deployed skilled and certified workforce along with stringent quality control mechanism to manage operational risk at transaction level
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What we have done

Streamlining trade operations for US based multinational conglomerate
What we are proud of

100%

Improvement in trade documents management

90%

Reduction of discrepant documents on 1st presentation under export LCs

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LCs examined Trade finance support to a US-based Bank
What we are proud of

40%

reduction in cost

100%

adherence to ICC rules