Our Solutions
Faster, better-controlled trade finance decisions
Secro helps banks and trade finance teams check trade documents, control approvals and track tokenized documents of title through AI-assisted workflows - with clear evidence to support financing decisions.
The trade finance complexity trap
Every financing decision brings together document checks, counterparty risk, cargo integrity, legal exposure and data compliance. Banks need to establish whether documents are complete, consistent and authentic - and who controls documents of title.
When evidence is scattered across paper, PDFs, emails and systems, teams spend time reconciling discrepancies, chasing approvals and rebuilding audit trails - delaying decisions and making risk signals harder to spot.”
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Receive
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Check
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Reconcile
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Approve
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Finance
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Monitor
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Release
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Audit
What Secro enables
100%
of collateral managed through the platform
Inventory Financing
80%
lower document processing cost
eBL
100%
of LC clauses checked, every time
LC Checker
Streamlining LC review from draft to presentation
Client: A bank providing trade finance services to commodity trading clients in Switzerland.
Their Challenge
A bank supporting commodity trade clients faced recurring friction across the LC lifecycle. Draft credits arrived in different formats, client instructions did not always align with the bank’s requirements, and discrepancies in shipping documents, invoices, and certificates were often identified only during formal examination. Trade finance teams spent hours cross-checking documents against LC terms, managing amendment requests, and corresponding with clients and counterparties—slowing decisions and increasing the risk of late presentation and discrepancy-related costs.
The Change with Secro
Instead of rebuilding checks for every transaction, the bank applied its review requirements and examination rules consistently across LC drafts and presentations. Potential issues in clauses, dates, quantities, tolerances, named parties, and document requirements were surfaced earlier – before they created amendment cycles or delayed formal examination.
Trade finance teams moved from line-by-line manual checking to an exception-led review model, with findings, supporting evidence, decisions, and communications captured in one controlled workflow. This gave the bank a clearer basis for decision-making, reduced avoidable rework, and helped clients submit cleaner document sets.
The Secro flow
Bank requirements and review rules configured in Secro
Draft LC uploaded and compared against approved transaction terms
Deviations and risk points flagged for review
Recommended amendments shared with the client and relevant counterparties
Agreed LC saved as the approved reference
Presentation documents uploaded
Secro’s AI-driven checker compares each document against the LC terms and across the full document set
Discrepancies surfaced with supporting evidence
Bank team reviews and resolves exceptions
Examination report and audit record generated
Modernizing inventory financing with tokenized collateral
Client: A commodity finance bank based in Switzerland.
Their Challenge
A bank financing commodity inventories relied on PDF copies of warehouse receipts and holding certificates as collateral evidence – documents that could be duplicated, amended, or presented to multiple lenders without a reliable way to verify authenticity or current status. Tracking which portion of a receipt was pledged, released, or still available as collateral required manual reconciliation between the bank, the warehouse operator, and the borrower, creating exposure to double-financing risk and slowing release requests during active trading.
The Change with Secro
By replacing static PDF receipts with a single tokenized instrument, the bank gained a live, single source of truth for each unit of collateral, so the same receipt cannot be pledged twice or presented to two lenders inside Secro. Partial releases — releasing a portion of stock as it is sold or shipped — could be processed digitally against the token’s real-time balance, rather than requiring a full receipt substitution or a manual sign-off chain. Release requests that previously took days of email and courier coordination between borrower, warehouse, and bank moved to a controlled digital workflow with a clear audit trail and permissioning.
The Secro flow
Warehouse receipt or holding certificate issued and tokenized on Secro
Bank registers its security interest against the tokenized instrument
Borrower submits a full or partial release request
Bank reviews real-time collateral status and outstanding pledgeRecommended amendments shared with the client and relevant counterparties
Bank approves or rejects the release digitally
Warehouse updates physical release instructions
Tokenized record automatically reflects the remaining collateral balance
Connect every party behind financing decision
Connect banks, traders, logistics providers, warehouses and other counterparties around shared document evidence, title control and financing approvals - with clear roles and permissions.
Traders, importers, and exporters
Provide the trade documents, title evidence, financing requests, and counterparty actions banks need to review.
Logistics service providers
Create, check, amend, and exchange the operational documents that support financing and release.
Vessel owners and vessel operators
Provide verified cargo data and transportation documents that support financing and release decisions.
Warehouses and collateral holders
Support inventory, warehouse receipt, and collateral evidence where financing depends on goods or title control.
Technology and platform partners
Connect Secro capabilities into existing bank, client, and partner systems.
Ready to turn fragmented checks into controlled decisions?
See how Secro can help your team check trade documents, control approvals and manage title evidence for financing decisions.