TFA is a multi-agent AI system for trade finance operations. It does the overnight groundwork — reading, vetting, briefing — so your morning opens to one page and a decision. The groundwork is machine. The judgement is yours.
The judgement is the easy part. Everything around it isn't.
Most of a trade finance day disappears into assembly — pricing, screening, document checks, line tracking — by hand, across separate systems, against the clock. TFA takes the assembly. Your team maintains the oversight and decisions.
At 08:00 each weekday, before anyone is in, TFA begins on its own — no one needs to start it.
TFA picks up the deals that arrived overnight and structures them for processing — no manual data entry, no re-keying between systems.
Before a deal reaches a human, it is priced, screened, document-checked and matched to a facility. Consistent, and never skipped.
The desk arrives to a single page: the new deals, what to approve, what to issue, the margin so far, and anything urgent today.
TFA prepares and recommends — it does not approve. Each deal is confirmed by a named person in one action, recorded with a full audit trail.
New and ongoing buy and sell legs are monitored. TFA tracks the matched trades, and margins stay visible in real time with price feeds.
Upon settlement, the buy-side credit instrument closes, the sale payment lands, and credit-line headroom returns automatically — ready for the next cargo, no manual reconciliation.
New deals, approvals pending, LCs to issue, running margin, and same-day alerts — consolidated into a single view the moment the desk opens.
A mandatory human approval gate on every deal. Designed with system and internal controls in place.
Every recommendation, approval and state change logged. Each deal reconstructable, end to end.
Designed to run privately on your own infrastructure — your data stays inside your environment, with nothing shared out.
At close, the day is compiled into a single end-of-day report — positions, running margin, exceptions and tomorrow's watch-list — on the CFO's desk before the lights go off.
TFA explores how multi-agent AI can take on the overnight groundwork of a trade-finance desk — reading, vetting and briefing — while every decision stays with a person. It's built at The Arc, the lab behind the JEPX Bid Optimisation System. If it speaks to your desk, I'd be glad to walk you through it.