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Initiate Transactions Electronically

Letter of Credit Application
Documentary Collections

Direct Collections
Collections Notification and Response

Detrimental Notification and Response

Transfer Letter of Credit
Standby Letter of Credit and guarantees
Financial free format messages

Reports

Over 80 pre-formatted reports providing comprehensive information of your trade activity, a sample of which follows:

Amendments to Import Letters of Credit Pending Approval
Discrepant Import Bills
Import LC Payment Details
Outstanding Import Invoices
Outstanding Import LC
Invoice Payment Details
Discounted Bills by Transaction Reference Number
Export Bills Discrepancy Analysis
Export LCs Payment Details
Export LCs Charge Details
Export Letter of Credit
Outstanding Export Acceptances by Product Type
Settled Export Invoices
Outstanding Guarantee/ SBLC
Guarantee/SBLCs Charge Summary

Report Customizer

Gives you the ability to design reports according to your management reporting and operational tracking needs, allowing you to eliminate the need to build in-house report designs. You may design customized reports from 4 base templates:

Import Letter of Credit Details
Import Letter of Credit Payment
Export Letter of Credit Details
Export Letter of Credit Payment

Various output format supported in rich text, actuate, excel and PDF

Trade Authorization

The Mobile Authorization functionality allows you to view transactions, send them to repair, or approve them right from your mobile device – allowing you to manage your Trade activity even when you are away from your desk.

View transaction details, authorize transactions and send transactions to repair for the following service types:

Import Letter of Credit (LC) Issuance
Amendments to Import LCs
Guarantees/ Standby LC Issuance
Amendments to Guarantees/ Standby LC
Direct Collections
Export Documentary Collections
Response to Bill Discrepancy
Response to Import Collection Notification
Response to Open Account Trade – DAN (Clean)/ Discrepant

Automated Report Generation and Delivery

Enables you to schedule events to be triggered at a later date and time, allowing you to enhance your operational efficiency by automating report generation on a real-time basis, even on non-business days. Six events supported

Report Delivered via In Session Browser
Report Delivered to an Email
Export File Delivered to an Email
Report Delivered to a HTTPS server
Export File Delivered to a HTTPS server
Import File Delivered from a HTTPS server

Time interval – monthly, weekly, daily or intraday – as often as every 30 minutes. Exception e-mail alert when a scheduled file or report does not run.

Auto Print enables a scheduled report (PDF format) to be automatically printed at your default printer.

Host Integration for Straight through Processing

Gives you the capability to accept information from your Host system to Citigroup

File/Batch (via CitiDirect BE^®/CitiConnect^® for Files)

File delivery is automated
Acknowledgement via files/messages available Online (via CitiDirect BE^®)
Acknowledgement via browser

This will enable you to:

Reduce set up and implementation costs using industry standard formats
Increase operation efficiency through automation

Images Record Management

Allows you to store all the documents (presented to Citi) in images on a real-time basis and enable online retrieval for viewing, saving and printing. Available for letter of credit issued via mail, telex, or cable “Non Negotiable Imaged Copy” appears as a watermark on every page. Trade document images are also available on CitiDirect BE^®. Image storage up to 15 months after transaction is closed.