Webinar:How to avoid costly discrepancies in Export Letters of Credit and get paid faster
About the Event
This webinar explores the practical challenges exporters face when managing letters of credit, with a focus on avoiding costly discrepancies that delay payment. Aimed at exporters, treasury professionals and trade finance teams, the session unpacks why 70–80% of LC presentations globally contain errors, the hidden costs of compliance failures, and how experienced exporters conduct checks to catch problems before submission. The event then demonstrates how automation and AI-powered technology can reduce risk and accelerate cash flow by streamlining document preparation and discrepancy identification.
For trade and treasury professionals managing export finance, understanding LC compliance is critical to working capital efficiency. The webinar combines educational content on common pitfalls with a practical case study and a brief product demonstration, offering actionable insights for reducing delays and improving payment certainty.
Topics covered
- Export letter of credit compliance
- LC discrepancy identification
- Document preparation automation
- AI-powered trade finance
- Working capital efficiency
Topics Covered:
Section 1: Why Letters of Credit still matter in 2026
Why exporters still use letters of credit, growing uncertainty in global trade, why payment security matters, common misconceptions about LCs, and where exporters typically struggle.
Section 2: The hidden cost of discrepancies
70–80% of presentations contain errors globally, common discrepancy types, why banks refuse documents, impact on cash flow, and real examples of delayed payments. Covers the most common mistakes exporters make, which errors cause the biggest delays, how much working capital gets trapped by discrepancies, and what surprises exporters most about documentary compliance.
Section 3: How experienced exporters check an LC
Main educational section covering the general process: LC issued, reviewing terms, preparing documents, common red flags, and presentation process. Addresses what an exporter should do immediately after receiving an LC, what are the first things to check, and which documents create the most problems.
Section 4: Technology's role in reducing risk
Why manual checking creates problems, using automation and AI to reduce errors, digital document preparation, compliance checking, and workflow management. Includes a brief demonstration of uploading an LC, document checking, template generation, and discrepancy identification.
Section 5: Exporter case study
An existing user/client case study discussing challenges faced before, how often discrepancies occurred, impact of delays on the business, what changed, and advice for other exporters.
Featured Speakers
Rebecca Trotter
Lloyds Banking Group
Gary Collyer
Managing Director / Head of Product TradeSpeed
Collyer Consulting Global Ltd / Complidata