Cross-border agri-trade operates across fragmented systems with limited shared visibility. Identity checks
are inconsistent, documents are manual, and financing decisions are often made before goods move.
These gaps enable misrepresented counterparties, forged documents, and phantom shipments — with
risks discovered only after capital is deployed.
Fraud persists not because trust is missing, but because trust isn’t measurable or continuous.
In most cross-border trades, buyers, sellers, logistics providers, and financiers
operate in different countries, legal systems, and data silos.
Fraud Risk
Fake counterparties, falsified documents, and misrepresented shipments often go undetected
until it’s too late.
Reason For Fraud
Many agri-traders are SMEs operating in regions where:
Fraud Risk
Shell companies, impersonation, and recycled business identities are common — especially in first-time cross-border relationships.
Reason For Fraud
Fraud Risk
Document forgery, double financing, invoice manipulation, and shipment substitution thrive in paper-based workflows.
Reason For Fraud
Cross-border agri-trade relies heavily on
These documents are often
Agricultural commodities move slowly across borders and oceans.
Fraud Risk
Phantom shipments, under-delivery, quality substitution, and false confirmations are difficult to detect in real time.
Reason For Fraud
Banks and financiers typically
Fraud Risk
Capital is extended against paper confidence rather than trade reality, increasing exposure to trade-based money laundering (TBML) and default fraud.
Reason For Fraud
Today’s global agri-trade ecosystem lacks
Fraud Risk
Each transaction is treated as an isolated event, allowing repeat offenders to move undetected across markets and platforms.
Reason For Fraud
Fraud Risk
The cost of fraud is not just financial — it erodes confidence in cross-border trade itself.
Reason For Fraud
In agri-trade
A single fraudulent transaction can