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HypoVereinsbank
(HVB) to Offer Electronic Pre-Checking of Documents via @GlobalTrade
München, Toronto,
December 7, 2004 – HVB, the second largest private-sector bank
in Germany providing trade finance and trade services to a wide
variety of corporate clients and other financial institutions has
announced during Export 21 trade show in Frankfurt that it has
entered into an agreement with GlobalTrade Corporation (GTC) to
cooperate as an active partner bank in the process chain of
@GlobalTrade™ starting with electronic pre-checking of documents
under letters of credit.
@GlobalTrade™ enables exporters to
receive letters of credit electronically, share information with
their factories and other departments, create compliant documents,
collaborate on these documents with respective trade service
providers, and now submit them back to HVB for on-line checking.
“Our clients have told us that they
need to have better control over their operational risk, reduce
processing costs and improve their days sales outstanding especially
when exporting on letter of credit terms,” said Markus
Wohlgeschaffen, Managing Director and Head of Trade and Payment
Products. “@GlobalTrade™ satisfies the needs of corporate
customers that produce and sell globally. HVB will be an active
partner bank in the process chain of @GlobalTrade™ network in
order to present the full functionality of @GlobalTrade™ in a real
life environment,” added Wohlgeschaffen.
“We are delighted to work with HVB
that is striving to provide innovative eTrade services for its
corporate clients,” said Jacob Katsman, CEO of GTC. “Before
@GlobalTrade™ HVB document checkers would receive faxes of
commercial documents in their regional offices for pre-checking
prior to presentation. These documents were difficult to read due to
poor quality and the bank could not give its clients the level of
service that they wanted to. Now HVB with its clients will be able
to be on the same electronic page.”
About GlobalTrade Corporation
GlobalTrade Corporation (GTC) designs, develops and manages
innovative, collaborative products and services for global trade
services. The Company services producers and traders that require
multi-bank information exchange and document management systems for
controlling risk exposure and document creation, and financial
institutions that require document preparation solutions and secure
electronic data exchange with their corporate customers.
@GlobalTrade™ is a registered trademark of GTC.
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