Trade Finance

Clear the cargo before the letter of credit advances.

For trade-finance banks issuing letters of credit, performance bonds and standby instruments tied to maritime cargo. Sanctions-clean the vessel, the cargo and the counterparty before the funds move.

// the work today

From issuance to drawdown.

Three points in the trade-finance lifecycle where compliance and operations need the same sourced evidence - the vessel, the cargo and the counterparty, all on one screen.

01 · LC issuance

Sanctions-clean the cargo on issuance.

Screen the vessel, the applicant, the beneficiary and every party named on the bill of lading against 24 sanctions lists - beneficial ownership traversed up to seven layers. Time-stamped clearance record on file before the LC issues.

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02 · In-flight monitoring

Catch a sanctions hit mid-voyage.

The voyage is long and the lists move. Continuous monitoring on every named party - score drift, sanctions hits, ownership changes, dark-vessel signals - surfaces to compliance the moment they happen, not at presentation.

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03 · Presentation & drawdown

Defensible record at presentation.

When documents present and funds draw down, the audit trail has to reconstruct what was screened, when, and against which list. Replayable to any historical UTC timestamp. Regulator and internal-audit grade, ready by drawdown date.

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// what you use

Eight tools, one platform.

Every product in this stack runs off the same vessel and entity model - change a fleet, change a fuel mix, and every figure stays consistent.

01

Vessel Screen

14-domain dossier per IMO, exportable as branded PDF.

02

Company Report

AAA–D Entity Rating with fleet aggregation and valuation.

03

Entity Ratings

Six-component credit-style rating, fully sourced.

04

Portfolio Health

Continuous monitoring with score-drift and sanctions alerts.

05

ESG Suite

CII, FuelEU, EU ETS, Poseidon, CSRD - one dataset.

06

Valuations

Three independent methods, peer-benchmarked.

07

Ask Kai

Maritime templates: covenant tests, ESG memo drafts.

08

Data Rooms

Shareable diligence rooms for credit committees and audit.

// recommended

Fathom Pro for trade finance.

Pooled credits across the compliance desk, sanctions screening on every LC, three Data Rooms for committee handoff, and full Ask Kai for drawdown memo drafting.

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02 · Fathom Pro

Pro

£599/seat / month
15 Vessel Screens / seat, pooled across the compliance desk
Sanctions on every LC - vessel, applicant, beneficiary, BL parties
3 Data Rooms for compliance committee handoff
Replay back to 2018 - point-in-time evidence for audit

Start free, or
book a call.

The Free tier includes one vessel screen per month. Book a call when you want to walk through your portfolio with the team.

Trade Finance - TrueFathom