Trade and Supply Chain Finance

Trade and Supply Chain Finance

Power your growth with innovative global trade and supply chain finance solutions

Trade and Supply Chain Finance

Power your growth with innovative global trade and supply chain finance solutions

At a glance

DBS offers a range of award-winning trade and supply chain finance services to help you enter into new markets, capitalise on existing sales and supply chains, improve key relationships, mitigate risk and optimise your working capital.

We seek to fully understand your specific needs before crafting customised solutions that leverage our digital leadership in international trade and supply chain finance.

Co-create your future-ready trade and supply chain finance solution with us today.

Our award-winning services and solutions allow you to:

  • Accelerate your expansion into new and existing markets to drive revenue and market share
  • Free up cashflow to reinvest into the business
  • Mitigate payment risks for your buyers and sellers
  • Provide financing support to your key counterparties to improve relationships
  • Fast forward your collections and enhance reconciliation to unlock cash and drive further sales
  • Digitalise document handling and supplier onboarding to save cost and improve turnaround times
  • Connect via our range of connectivity solutions, including seamless and interoperable online, host-to-host and API solutions

For a full run-down on how we co-create customised digital trade and supply chain financing solutions, including how we integrate with trade platforms and leverage ecosystems partnerships, click here.

Products and solutions
Import financing
Our customised import financing solutions will help you free up your cashflow.
Export financing
Improve your cashflow and accelerate your expansion with our comprehensive range of export financing products.

Letter of credit advising & confirmation
Letter of Credit Advising & Confirmation.pdf (281.2 kb)
Export letter of credit negotiation/discounting
Export Bills under Letter of Credit (LC).pdf (280.6 kb)
Export bill under collection & financing (DA/DP)
Export Bills Under Collection and Financing.pdf (281.1 kb)
Banker’s guarantee
Mitigate payment risks for your buyers or sellers with our banker’s guarantees.

Banker’s guarantee / Standby Letter of Credit
Banker's Guarantee Advising.pdf (268.5 kb)
Electronic Banker's Guarantee with eGuarantee@gov
Supply chain finance for buyers
Enhance your cashflow whilst extending payment terms to your key suppliers.
Supply chain finance for sellers
Manage your receivables effectively and enjoy faster payments with our suite of supply chain financing solutions.

Accounts Receivable Purchase (ARP) + Digital Accounts Receivable Purchase
Accounts Receivable Purchase (Non-Recourse).pdf (291.2 kb)
Trade services
Client stories
China Capital Logistics

Enhancing transparency in the supply chain

"The blockchain solution enables participants to improve efficiency and deliver innovative supply chain financing services."

BAIC CCL


KPIT

Improving cashflow through ARP

“DBS managed to implement it in just 30 days. It has significantly improved the DSO in our last quarter.”

KPIT


Awards
AAA 2023 Treasure and Trade

The Asset

Triple A Treasurise (Treasury, Trade, Supply Chain, Risk, ESG) Awards

  • Best Transaction Bank, Asia Pacific, 2023
  • Best Supply Chain Finance Provider, Taiwan, 2023
Leaders in Trade

Global Trade Review

Leaders in Trade

  • Best Bank for Digitalisation, Global, 2023
Global Finance

Global Finance

The World’s Best Trade Provider

  • Best Trade Finance Provider, Asia Pacific, 2022-2024
  • Best Trade Finance Provider, Singapore, 2010 – 2024
  • Best Trade Finance Provider, China, 2023-2024
  • Best Trade Finance Provider, Taiwan, 2024
     
Global Finance

Global Finance

The World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Provider

  • Best Supply Chain Finance Provider, Asia Pacific, 2024
Greenwich Excellence

Greenwich

Greenwich Excellence Awards: Asian Large Corporate (Trade Finance)

  • Ability to Match Products and Services to Client Needs 
  • Ease of Doing Business  
  • Effectiveness at Reducing Paperwork 
  • Frequency of Contact  
  • Platform Capabilities for Trade Finance 
  • Speed of Error Correction  
  • Timely Follow-up 
  • Turnaround Time 
AAA 2023 Treasure and Trade

The Asset

Triple A Treasurise (Treasury, Trade, Supply Chain, Risk, ESG) Awards

  • Best Transaction Bank, Asia Pacific, 2023
  • Best Supply Chain Finance Provider, Taiwan, 2023
Leaders in Trade

Global Trade Review

Leaders in Trade

  • Best Bank for Digitalisation, Global, 2023
Global Finance

Global Finance

The World’s Best Trade Provider

  • Best Trade Finance Provider, Asia Pacific, 2022-2024
  • Best Trade Finance Provider, Singapore, 2010 – 2024
  • Best Trade Finance Provider, China, 2023-2024
  • Best Trade Finance Provider, Taiwan, 2024
     
Global Finance

Global Finance

The World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Provider

  • Best Supply Chain Finance Provider, Asia Pacific, 2024
Greenwich Excellence

Greenwich

Greenwich Excellence Awards: Asian Large Corporate (Trade Finance)

  • Ability to Match Products and Services to Client Needs 
  • Ease of Doing Business  
  • Effectiveness at Reducing Paperwork 
  • Frequency of Contact  
  • Platform Capabilities for Trade Finance 
  • Speed of Error Correction  
  • Timely Follow-up 
  • Turnaround Time 
Get in touch
Call

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From overseas: +65 6222 2200
In Singapore: 1800 222 2200
Operating hours: 8.30am to 8.30pm, Mon - Fri (excluding PH)

DBS Bank participating in Trade Finance Registry
To enhance lending practices and improve transparency to mitigate risks, The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has launched the industry utility - Trade Finance Registry (TFR) to tackle duplicate financing amongst banks in Singapore and to strengthen Singapore’s resiliency as a trade and financial hub.

Participating banks are required to submit a query of the underlying trade for eligible transactions through TFR. TFR is owned by ABS and records specified data points from trade transactions and supporting documents as defined by ABS and the industry to facilitate the participating banks’ due diligence checks.

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