Our company focuses specifically on the high-volume import and distribution of specialized industrial components. As a growing business, we have to be incredibly efficient with our overhead; we simply didn’t have the budget to hire a full-time trade finance expert with the necessary banking credentials. However, our business model relies entirely on letters of credit and complex bank guarantees.For years, we were trapped in a cycle of technical non-compliance and bank-level friction. Every time a document was rejected by the bank for a minor discrepancy, our shipments were delayed, our suppliers got nervous, and our bank fees skyrocketed. We were caught in a cycle of high costs and limited growth because our credit lines were stagnant.