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Verify Trade Finance Before Settlement.

JIL Trade Finance Integrity verifies counterparties, documents, invoices, shipments, sanctions exposure, beneficial ownership, and payment conditions before trade finance transactions settle.

Trade finance risk often hides in documents, entities, shell companies, shipment inconsistencies, and payment routing. JIL helps verify the facts before funds move - and produces a sealed evidence record suitable for examiner review, recovery counsel, and dispute resolution.

Business use

Built for high-risk trade and payment corridors.

Trade finance is exposed to invoice fraud, shipment/payment mismatch, sanctions evasion, UBO opacity, and shell-company routing. JIL provides the verification layer at the moment of trade authorization and the evidence record that backs the decision.

Documents
Invoice + shipment
UBO
Sanctions + ownership
Corridor
Payment route verification
Sealed
Settlement-readiness evidence

Six business outcomes

Where Trade Finance Integrity moves the needle.

01 · INVOICE

Invoice fraud detection

Invoice-to-PO match, duplicate-invoice detection, and pricing anomaly review at the moment of finance authorization.

02 · SHIPMENT

Shipment/payment match

Shipping document verification, port-of-origin/destination matching, and over-/under-invoicing detection.

03 · SANCTIONS

Sanctions screening

OFAC, EU, UN sanctions and named-party screening at the corridor and counterparty layer.

04 · UBO

UBO opacity reduction

Beneficial-owner graph for both sides of the trade, with shell-company and nominee pattern detection.

05 · LC

Letter-of-credit support

LC document review, compliance-condition checks, and payment-routing verification before drawdown.

06 · CORRIDOR

Cross-border corridor controls

Corridor-specific compliance, customs alignment, and high-risk-jurisdiction overlay before payment.

Use cases

Where the attestation lands.

BANK

Trade finance banks

Pre-finance verification on LCs, documentary collections, and supply-chain finance with sealed evidence.

COMMODITY

Commodity traders

Counterparty, UBO, and shipment integrity checks across high-risk commodity corridors.

EXPORT

Export/import finance

Document review and corridor compliance for export credit and import financing.

CUSTOMS

Customs & agencies

Shipment integrity attestation aligned with customs and trade-control requirements.

INSURER

Trade credit insurers

Counterparty risk, UBO chain, and shipment integrity as underwriting inputs.

DEV

Development banks

Sovereign-funded trade finance with integrity controls, sealed evidence, and audit retention.

Technical deep dive

How verification becomes evidence.

  • Invoices and purchase orders
  • Bills of lading and shipping manifests
  • Letters of credit and documentary collections
  • Customs declarations
  • Counterparty KYB records
  • Payment instructions and bank routing

Identity, beneficial-owner graph, sanctions and PEP overlay, shell-company pattern detection, address and registration overlap, and prior dispute history.

Quantity, value, port, vessel, and timing reconciliation across invoice, BoL, and customs records. Over-/under-invoicing and phantom-shipment detection.

Sanctions and named-party screening, hop-distance to sanctioned entities, beneficial-owner chain, and high-risk-jurisdiction overlay.

Payment-route verification, corridor-specific compliance checks, and intermediary-bank screening before drawdown or payment authorization.

CREB packages document evidence, counterparty graph, shipment reconciliation, sanctions and UBO checks, payment-route verdict, and cryptographic timestamp. CourtChain seals the bundle under FRE 902(13).

API integration with trade finance platforms, SWIFT MT/MX feeds, customs portals, and bank back-office systems. Snowflake share for batch counterparty and corridor review.

What this is not

Scope, plainly.

  • Not a bank
  • Not a letter-of-credit issuer
  • Not a customs authority
  • Not a shipping company
  • Not a guarantee that goods exist
  • Not legal advice

Verify the trade before the funds move.

Brief your trade finance, compliance, or corridor risk lead. We will walk the document model, the counterparty checks, the shipment reconciliation, and the integration path with your trade platform.

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