Trade
Management
Platform
Trade
Management
Platform
The digital alternative for the
Letter of Credit and Guarantee
The digital alternative for the Letter of Credit and Guarantee
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Mercurion Trade Services
Mercurion Trade Services offers essential trading services through a single platform with a user-friendly interface. Digital interfaces reduce the need for cumbersome administrative processes and offer simpler, safer and more transparent ways of doing business. Mercurion Trade Services hence stands for secure, paperless and cost-efficient easy-to-access cloud based trade-solutions.

The digital alternative
Existing trade
security instruments
like the L/C or Guarantee
Mercurion’s platform
The digital alternative
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Complex
Difficult to meet all requirements
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Easy to use
Efficicient and accessible online
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Bureaucratic
Variable processes of multiple banks
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Simple
Convenient and efficient compliance process
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Time consuming
Processes take too much time to complete
03
Efficient
Faster settlement of transactions
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Expensive
Non-transparant and many variable costs
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Affordable
Transparent and cheaper than existing services
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Risky
Risk of theft, fraud or loss of original documents
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Completely digital
No risk of losing documents
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Insecure
Dependent on financial strength of issuing bank
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Baltic Exchange
The service is excuted by Baltic Exchange
The digital alternative
Existing trade security instruments
like the L/C or Guarantee
01
Complex
Difficult to meet all requirements
02
Bureaucratic
Variable processes of multiple banks
03
Time consuming
Processes take too much time to complete
04
Expensive
Non-transparant and many variable costs
05
Risky
Risk of theft, fraud or loss of original documents
06
Insecure
Dependent on financial strength of issuing bank
Mercurion’s platform
The digital alternative
01
Easy to use
Efficicient and accessible online
02
Simple
Convenient and efficient compliance process
03
Efficient
Faster settlement of transactions
04
Affordable
Transparent and cheaper than existing services
05
Completely digital
No risk of losing documents
06
Baltic Exchange
The service is excuted by Baltic Exchange
Baltic Exchange

The Baltic Exchange, which is headquartered in London, is the world’s leading source of freight market data for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative freight contracts.
The Baltic Exchange is wholly owned by the Singapore Exchange (SGX), a listed company which is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as the operator of the securities and derivatives markets in Singapore.
The Baltic Exchange (Asia) Pte Ltd (BEA), a Singapore-registered wholly-owned subsidiary of the Baltic Exchange, acts as an escrow agent for a variety of transactions, including asset sales and purchases, disputes, security payments and trade finance.
The escrow service in a nut-shell

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The buyer makes the payment to the restricted 3rd party account managed by Baltic Exchange.
Once the funds are received, the seller delivers the goods to the buyer as agreed in the Escrow Agreement.
Once the goods are received by the buyer, the funds are released to the seller by Baltic Exchange.
The escrow service in a nut-shell

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The buyer makes the payment to the restricted 3rd party account managed by Baltic Exchange.
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Once the funds are received, the seller delivers the goods to the buyer as agreed in the Escrow Agreement.
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Once the goods are received by the buyer, the funds are released to the seller by Baltic Exchange.
The escrow service completely digitalised
Through its platform Mercurion offers easy access to a secure payment service for buyers and sellers, whether importers or exporters. This digitalised Escrow service is executed by Baltic Exchange. A digitalised Escrow service is easier to access, reducing cost by eliminating needless bureaucracy typically involved with traditional trade security products offered by banks, such as Letters of Credit. The result is a service that can efficiently cater for smaller as well as larger consignments, shipped by ocean container, air or truck.
The extent of the bureaucracy involved in traditional banking products is such that it can discourage parties from completing the required processes, or even sway them to decline potential business altogether. Additional complications can arise when attempting to mitigate financial weakness of an issuing bank, leaving aside the conditionality contained in the document itself potentially making it unenforceable. The Escrow service is hence simpler and safer.
As a highly trusted and respected institution Baltic Exchange facilitates an alternative way to settle payments against delivery of goods purchased as soon as both parties have performed in line with the transaction entered on the Mercurion platform. Parties can be confident that their interests are well protected.
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Transaction details

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Compliance

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Agreement

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Send funds

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Deliver goods

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Release funds

Value proposition

Faster
An up to 80% faster transaction process means funds and goods are received earlier

Revenue increase
Increase of sales, revenues and working capital for buyer as well as seller

Opening doors
Replacing the complex L/C removes a barrier for new business development

Control
Transparent pricing, a smoother compliance process and no lost documentation head aches
Contact
Interested in our services? Do not hesitate to contact us for more information or request a demonstration of the platform.
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Hofplein 20, 3032 AC Rotterdam
The Netherlands