International trade has become crucial to achieving and propelling explosive growth and profitability for multi-national corporations around the world.
Sound knowledge of trade financing facilities will certainly help you to stay ahead and remain viable in today’s complex and competitive environment.
Having good knowledge in this field will also serve as an invaluable asset in improving your company’s business and competitive edge.
DocCredits has more than 20 years of extensive experience in handling Documentary Credits, Documentary Collections, Bank Guarantees, Standby Letter of Credits, Trade Based Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing etc., including measures to mitigate risks, structuring risks, and problems. We currently provide these services to banks, and international and local corporations.
Activities 1: Business and Management Consultancy Services
Activities 2: Outsourcing Services in handling Lcs checking / preparation of shipping documents / presentation of documents to Banks.
Activities 3: Convention/Conference Organisers
DocCredits has conducted numerous successful and highly sought after Trade Based Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing/Trade Seminar courses for Financial Institutions, Banks, Traders, MNCs, Trading Companies, Commodity Companies, Auditors etc. for both local and international participants, such as:
We provide consultancy / outsourcing services for all Letter of Credit transactions such as:
We conduct ongoing seminars and courses, so stay tuned for upcoming courses, or drop us your email address to keep updated of upcoming seminars.
You may also contact us to arrange for seminars or training for your organisation executives and personnel in banks, commodities, trading and shipping companies involved in the opening and negotiation of LCs, and those managing import and export trade functions.
Trade Finance Courses:
We undertake the outsourcing of project works from banking, multi-national corporations and private individuals for issuing of LCs and Contracts, handling/checking Exports LCs, preparation of shipping documents, Collection of invoice services etc.
Undertake outsourcing of project works from banking, corporate and private individuals as follows:
You may also contact us for more information.
Peter TL Koh has over 35 years of extensive trade knowledge, and experience in International Trade Financing, Structured Trade and Commodity Finance, Bank Guarantees, and Standby L/C. He has worked with major local and foreign banks such as BTMU (formerly known as BOT), BNP, Daiwa Bank, Bank Mandiri, Nordea Bank, Citibank NA, RZB-Austria and OCBC Bank Ltd., Singapore.
His portfolio includes multinational corporations in Singapore, with an active involvement in international trade. Locally, he has worked with OCBC as Senior Trade Advisor (Executive Director). He was previously the Head of Trade Operations in Daiwa Bank, Bank Mandiri, Nordea Bank & RZB-Austria (now known as Raiffeisen Bank International AG).
He is currently based in Singapore / Yangon, Myanmar since 2015 for CB Bank PCL as Deputy Managing Director. He has also worked for KBZ Bank, Yangon as Senior General Manager.
He has won numerous International Trade Finance / Structured Trade Finance inclusive of Cash Management Awards from “The Asset Triple A” and “Asian Banking & Finance”, since 2015 to 2023 for both Myanmar Banks.
Over the years, Peter TL Koh has conducted many Trade courses and seminars on International trade for bank staff, and clients. He has also held public seminars at several Universities – The Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), SIM University , Singapore and internationally in Bangkok University, Thailand, China, Myanmar, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Mr. Poh brought with him over 40 years of broad and in depth Corporate, Commodity and Trade banking experiences, holding senior and leadership roles in Local and major International Banks covering origination, development, structuring and financing to support banks’/clients’ growth strategies in Singapore & regionally as well as credit and risks management.
During his banking career with Tat Lee Bank, Barclays, UBAF, Paribas, SG, Credit Agricole and former Managing Director and Regional Head for Institutional Banking Group, Commodity in DBS, his main duties involved Commodity & Trade Financing and in supporting specialised teams in Risk and Credit Management, Operational/Middle Office, Legal & Compliance. Closely collaborating with various Product Banking Specialists -jointly and actively cross selling with teammates in Loans Syndications, Derivatives, Capital Markets (DCM & ECM), M&A, Financial Institutions, SME, Projects Financing, Shipping and Trade/Cash Management and Private Banking, providing a wholesome banking service to clients and strengthening the connectivity amongst Banking regional offices.
He was Co-Chairing a Committee, jointly developed a Code of Best Practices for Commodity Financing with the support of Association Banks of Singapore, Enterprise Singapore and MAS in 2020
Mr Poh had navigated through down cycles, volatile and challenging market conditions avoiding and experiencing difficult credits and headwinds over past decades
Mr. Poh received his graduation Diploma in Management Studies from University of Chicago, USA, MBA from University of Hull, UK and Accredited member of The Institute of Bankers (UK), the Institute of Banking and Finance , Singapore and The Chartered Governance Institute UK.
Clara currently sits on the panel of Consultants at DocCredits.
In 2016 , she founded eFundSME Global Pte Ltd . As CEO, she is responsible for providing commercial, operations and people leadership underpinned by a stringent focus on risk management, corporate governance and compliance.
Clara is a multiple award winning banker. She has more than 30 years of regional experience across large corporate and SME banking, institutional banking, as well as trade and commodity finance and syndication.
In the last ten years of her career (2005 to 2016) , Clara was Global Head of Trade Finance, driving and growing the trade business of a leading bank in Singapore. She has extensive and in-depth industry and product knowledge in trade finance, with robust emphasis on client relationship management and credit risk management. Clara has held various senior roles at OCBC, Natexis, ING and BNP.
She was on the list of prominent trade practitioners recognised by The Asian Banker for continually shaping the industry in the respective fields. Her views were often sought by the media, government agencies as well as at industry conferences and events as a thought leadership speaker.
Clara is impressively well networked and most updated with the latest in the trade finance world.
She holds a Bachelor of Business together with numerous accreditations from the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore Institute of Management and professional training.
Jimmy Phua, currently sits on the panel of Consultants at DocCredits.
His last employment was as the Trade Advisor (Vice President) with OCBC Bank Malaysia Bhd. He played an active advisory role on all aspects of OCBC Bank’s import and export Trade operations and Trade financing instruments. His job functions included the review and re-engineering of the Bank’s Trade Operations / Processes besides training staff (including pipeline interns) on all trade financing products and services.
Jimmy started his banking career with Malayan Banking Berhad as a new Graduate Trainee before moving to The Chase Manhattan Bank N.A (now JP Morgan Chase) to head Trade Finance and Services (Assistant Vice-President ). Positions which Jimmy had held before joining this major Singapore Bank were: Trade Advisor for AmBank (M) Berhad, Trade Advisor for EXIM Bank Malaysia Berhad, General Manager of Trade Finance for Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad, Vice-President and Head of Trade Services for Deutsche Bank (M) Berhad and Assistant General Manager and Head of International Trade Finance for Kwong Yik Bank Berhad ( now RHB Bank ).
Altogether, Jimmy has more than 30 years of banking experience where he had specific responsibilities for Trade Finance operations and marketing, structuring of Trade Finance deals, conducting in-house training programs and workshops for staff and customers and for the Banks’ trade fee and interest income budgets. He has also conducted numerous seminars on Malaysia’s Trade Financing products, Letters of Credit, Bank Guarantees and Auditing Trade Finance for Institute of Banks in Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia, local banks, ICC Malaysia and Management Training Companies.
Jimmy was a member of the EXIM Bank’s Export Credit Refinancing Working Committee, Bank Negara Malaysia’s New Trade Products Working Committees and ICC Malaysia Banking Committee and Task Group. He has been invited to present specific product and industry papers on Trade Financing and Trade Services in several Trade Conferences.
Jimmy is currently being engaged as a Trade Advisor by a Trade System Development Company, since June 2018, to provide his inputs, guidance and experience in the development of an in-house Trade Finance System for a “Special Purpose Government Bank”.
Simon currently sits on the panel of Consultants at DocCredits.
A well respected veteran in Trade Finance operations with strong regional experience. Simon is backed by 35 years of solid experience at Deutsche and Citibank:
Richard Yeo currently sits on the panel of Consultants at DocCredits.
Richard Yeo has been involved in teaching, training and consultancy in various institutions for over 20 years. He is able to provide real life examples which he draws from his rich management experience and holds a Masters of Business Administration from Manchester Business School. He also is a graduate member of the Institute of Exports, U.K. (MIEx grad), and numerous professional qualifications.
He has been a Trainer at the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) for many years, conducting training courses and workshops for the Public and ISCA’s members. He was also an invited speaker to conduct a seminar on “Risks and Frauds in Import/Export Procedures” to the Singapore and ASEAN Police Force held in the Commercial Affairs Headquarter, Singapore. Richard also conducted tutorial classes for the Master Degree Programme at the Manchester Business School.
Richard’s experience in Asahi Bank Ltd., Singapore Branch as a Deputy General Manager (Head of Operations and Head of Compliance) included overseeing Loans Administration, Back-office settlements, Remittances (Fund Transfers), Office Administration (including HR function) and Telecommunication (Including the Global Cash Management Systems) and the setting up of the Compliance Section.
He was also the Branch Operations Manager (Branch Manager) with HL Bank, Singapore responsible for the daily running of the branch operations.
Prior to that, he was with Armco Pacific Limited, a Merchant Bank, to assist in the establishment of a Trade Finance Department, drawing up guidelines, procedures and rules for the current and newly recruited staff and he was instrumental in promoting Trade Financing products to SMEs, and to establish Correspondent Banking relationship with Financial Institutions.
One of his roles as Head of Commercial Group in JP Morgan was to provide trade expertise to both new and existing customers by making joint marketing calls with the Relationship Managers and conducting in-house training for staff and Corporate customers.
Richard’s former role in Sapphire Corporation Limited, a public listed company, as a Consultant is to source for facilities and funding from banks to support in the numerous projects. Such projects included the US$72.8 million Collar Finance and also US$15 million LC Facilities.
Richard has a wide range of teaching experiences in various industries and institutions since 1990s:
Pardi Sudradjat currently sits on the panel of Consultants at DocCredits.
He holds Executive Management diplomas from the University of Michigan, and an MBA degree in Finance and International Business from Stern School of Business – New York University, USA (1994).
From 1998 to June 2012, Pardi was Head of Risk Management Group in PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, Jakarta, Indonesia covering as follows:
He was President Commissioner of PT Mandiri Sekuritas (2012 to 2018), & Head of Risk Monitoring Committee and Head of Audit Committee at Rabobank Indonesia (2015 to 2018).
He was also an Executive Director of BARa (Banker Association for Risk Management, Indonesia (2008 to 2015). He served as Risk Committee member at LPS (Lembaga Penjaminan Simpanan) from Sep 2019 to Sep 2021.
He delivered many speeches (offline and online) for his roles as consultant in Banking Industry and Non-bank Financial Institution.