Trade-Based Money Laundering is the hardest typology to detect. Here's how we find it.
CorridorShield™ is FinComp's flagship methodology for trade finance and commodity businesses — developed through hands-on experience building TBML screening capability inside regional banks, and engaging with Auditors and UAE regulators on control frameworks.
Long before a fine, there's an opportunity to protect business continuity.
Strong compliance isn't just about avoiding regulatory enforcement. It's about keeping business moving. When banks strengthen their AML/CFT and sanctions controls, trading businesses benefit from being prepared: fewer RFIs, smoother payment processing, stronger access to trade finance, and greater confidence from banking partners.
As CBUAE and FATF expectations continue to evolve, clean, well-governed compliance becomes a competitive advantage — helping businesses protect their banking relationships, maintain access to credit and keep transactions moving. Compliance isn't simply a regulatory obligation. It's an enabler of business continuity, trust and growth.
That's what it means to transform compliance into a strategic business advantage — in practice, not just in theory.
If your business touches physical trade, TBML risk is part of the business.
Trade finance compliance risk doesn't stop at a border, a shipment or a single transaction. It sits across the supply chain and payment flows. Our methodology is built for businesses and banks that need to identify these risks early, strengthen controls and keep legitimate trade moving.
Commodity trading & import/export houses
DMCC, JAFZA and DAFZA-based traders with exposure to cross-border commodities, complex supply chains and higher-risk trade corridors.
Banks & financial institutions — trade finance teams
Independent capacity to support TBML reviews, complex trade transactions, RFI responses and enhanced transaction-level analysis.
DPMS with cross-border trade exposure
A natural extension of our BullionShield™ methodology, combining commodity, counterparty, transaction and supply-chain risk assessment.
Freight, logistics & shipping companies
Vessel screening, documentation review and maritime risk controls across complex routes, trans-shipment points and evolving geopolitical corridors.
Where physical trade moves, compliance risk moves with it. Our role is to make that risk visible, actionable and manageable.
Five capabilities. One integrated TBML methodology.
From reviewing a single high-risk shipment to establishing continuous enterprise-wide monitoring, our methodology connects the critical elements of trade-based financial crime risk into one consistent control framework.
TBML framework development
— define risk parameters, red flags, thresholds and corridor-specific controls.
Trade document review
— assess invoices, bills of lading and related trade documentation for pricing, quantity, routing and documentation anomalies.
Commodity pricing assessment
— identify potential over-invoicing, under-invoicing, unusual pricing and commodity mispricing risks.
Vessel & maritime screening
— assess port calls, vessel activity, sanctions exposure and trans-shipment risks.
Transaction analytics & monitoring
— translate risk indicators into monitoring scenarios, escalation triggers and ongoing surveillance.
One methodology. Multiple layers of intelligence. A stronger TBML control environment.
Stronger safeguards, shared responsibility.
Regulators hold banks and businesses to the same standard — AML/CFT compliance isn't the bank's job alone. As enforcement tightens, that shared responsibility shows up on trade finance files as slower approvals and more queries.
Ongoing advisory, or a focused inspection-readiness engagement.
CorridorShield™ Advisory
Delivered through our standard Specialist Advisory™ and Compliance Monitoring Programme™ plans — from AED 1,500/month, scaled to your trade volume.
RegReady™
A focused, time-bound engagement that pressure-tests your TBML control framework and keeps it inspection-ready — not scrambled together before an audit, inspection or Board review. The payoff: faster turnaround times, fewer RFIs from banks and auditors, and a compliance record that strengthens your standing with banks and customers alike.
Trade Corridor Readiness Check
A fast, one-off review of a specific shipment's documentation — bill of lading, vessel and route status, insurance certificates and LC terms — before it goes to the bank, so it clears the first time instead of triggering a hold. Available alongside either engagement above, or on its own.
We already have an in-house compliance officer — what does CorridorShield™ add?
Independent, banking-grade overflow capacity — most useful ahead of a banking RFI or Board review, where an outside opinion carries more weight.
Is this only for large trading houses?
No — the same framework scales down for SME traders, starting lean and extending into continuous monitoring as volume grows.
Can you review a single shipment before it goes to our bank?
Yes — the Trade Corridor Readiness Check is built exactly for that: a fast, one-off review of a specific shipment's documentation, done in time to catch issues before submission rather than after a hold.
Know a trading house, forwarder or shipping line that needs this? Send them here.
Tell us a little about the business — trade corridors, products, current controls — and we'll give you a plain, practical read on where CorridorShield™ would help most.
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