How can banks identify new trade finance and supply chain finance opportunities?

Banks can analyze global trade flows, corridors, volumes, product categories, and sector trends to understand where cross-border activity is developing. Company-level supply chain intelligence can then help identify active importers and exporters, examine their trading patterns, and prioritize prospective customers whose activity aligns with the bank’s trade finance services. S&P Global brings these macro and company-level insights together through Global Trade Atlas and Panjiva.

How can relationship managers find companies that may need trade finance?

Relationship managers can use company-level import, export, and supply chain information to identify businesses with relevant cross-border activity. Panjiva from S&P Global converts transactional bill of lading data into company-level views that help users examine trading patterns, buyer-supplier relationships, and potential customer opportunities.

How can banks understand a corporate customer’s supply chain?

Supply chain intelligence can reveal a company’s trading patterns, counterparties, buyer-supplier relationships, and transactional activity. Panjiva from S&P Global helps relationship, operations, and compliance teams develop greater visibility into company-level supply chains without having to process large volumes of unstructured trade data manually.

How can banks assess the risk associated with a new trade corridor?

Banks can combine trade-flow intelligence with country-level economic, political, operational, and security risk analysis. Global Trade Atlas helps teams understand corridor activity, while Country Risk from S&P Global provides structured scores and specialist analysis across 211 countries to support market entry and exposure assessments.

How can trade finance teams screen goods descriptions against sanctions and export controls?

Trade Compliance Secure from S&P Global supports HS code and natural-language description-based screening against global sanctions and export controls. Its tuned matching logic helps trade finance compliance teams review goods descriptions, reduce false positives, document decisions, and apply a more consistent risk-based approach.

How can banks screen vessels and vessel owners in trade finance transactions?

Trade Compliance Secure combines trade, maritime, vessel, ownership, sanctions, and export controls intelligence within a single workflow. This helps compliance teams examine the vessels and owners connected to transactions and incorporate those findings into trade finance reviews.

How can banks check for potential over-invoicing or under-invoicing?

Historical trade data covering a wide range of geographies and product types can provide an independent reference for unit-price and economic sense checks. Global trade intelligence from S&P Global helps operations and compliance teams compare transactions with observed trade information when investigating potential over-invoicing or under-invoicing concerns.

How can banks bring commercial growth and trade compliance intelligence together?

S&P Global combines Global Trade Atlas, Panjiva, Country Risk, and Trade Compliance Secure. Together, these solutions support market analysis, client origination, relationship management, country risk assessment, transaction transparency, sanctions screening, vessel and ownership checks, and export control workflows.

Trade & Supply Chain Finance Intelligence

On this page

Overview
Benefits
Why S&P Global Market Intelligence
FAQs
Request Follow Up

Overview

Global trade and supply chains are being reshaped by geopolitical fragmentation, policy uncertainty, changing production footprints, and the diversification of sourcing and sales corridors. For commercial banks, these shifts create opportunities to support new cross-border activity, but they also increase the need for stronger visibility into underlying trade flows, company relationships, country risk, and compliance exposure.

S&P Global brings together macro-level trade intelligence, company-level supply chain transparency, country risk insight, and trade compliance screening. This integrated proposition helps commercial banks understand where trade finance demand may emerge, identify and engage prospective clients, strengthen customer due diligence, and support more efficient, consistent, and defensible compliance decisions.

Request a demo

aerial top view container ship crane Lifting container for Logistic by sea in warehouse

Who benefits?

Heads of Transaction Banking, Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance

Use global trade flows, corridor trends, and sector intelligence to inform product strategy, prioritize markets, and position trade finance services around evolving customer demand.

Corporate and Transaction Banking Sales

Identify prospective customers with relevant cross-border activity and prepare more informed conversations using intelligence on trading patterns, sectors, counterparties, and supply chain relationships.

Coverage and Relationship Managers

Develop a clearer view of clients’ trading activities, buyer-supplier relationships, and market environments to deepen customer engagement and support more advisory-led conversations.

Trade Finance Operations

Gain greater transparency into transactions, goods, vessels, ownership, and trading activity to support monitoring, economic sense checks, and operational reviews.

Financial Crime and Trade Compliance Teams

Screen transactions, goods, vessels, vessel owners, companies, and beneficial owners against relevant sanctions and export controls while supporting consistent, risk-based decisions.

Group Compliance, AML and Counterterrorist Financing Teams

Strengthen pre-onboarding due diligence and trade-related controls with company, ownership, supply chain, sanctions, maritime, and transaction-level intelligence.

How we support trade and supply chain finance workflows across your customer lifecycle

Make more informed trade finance decisions

Integrated intelligence that helps commercial, product, risk, operations, and compliance teams support trade finance workflows from market strategy and origination through transaction monitoring:

Why S&P Global?

Integrated intelligence across the trade finance lifecycle
Bring together macro trade flows, company-level supply chain relationships, country risk insight, and compliance-focused content to support connected commercial, risk, operational, and compliance workflows.

Extensive visibility into global trade
Access over 98% visibility into global trade flows through one source, supported by broad geographic and product coverage and extensive historical data.

Macro and company-level insights
Move from a global view of trade corridors and sector activity to detailed intelligence on industry trade trends, companies, trading patterns, counterparties, and buyer-supplier relationships.

Country risk coverage across 211 jurisdictions
Assess and monitor risk across major and emerging markets using structured country risk scores and concise economic, political, and security analysis from in-house specialists.

Connected maritime and trade intelligence
Use market-leading maritime and trade data to support the screening of goods, transactions, vessels, ownership, sanctions, and export control exposure.

More efficient and defensible compliance reviews
Combine HS code and description-based screening with tuned matching logic to support faster reviews, fewer false positives, better-documented decisions, and a consistent risk-based approach.

FAQs

Request Follow Up

Capture trade finance opportunities while managing cross-border risk

Whether you are evaluating emerging trade corridors, identifying prospective customers, deepening corporate relationships, assessing country exposure, or reviewing transactions for sanctions and export control risk, S&P Global helps your teams make more informed commercial, risk, and compliance decisions across the trade finance lifecycle.

Section
Section
Section
Section
Section
Comments
Section

Business Email*

First Name*

Last Name*

Company Name*

Phone Number*

Product or Workflow of Interest*

City*

What type of business challenges can we help you solve? (Optional)

Yes, I would like to receive promotional emails containing essential industry insights, event invitations, and relevant solutions from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Clicking 'Submit' means you agree to the Terms and have read and understand the Privacy Policy and acknowledge we use pixels and similar tracking technologies in our emails to confirm message delivery and to review your engagement with our communications (such as whether an email was opened); you may withdraw that consent at any time by updating your preferences.