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  • What are the trade services cut-off times for these products? Imports & Exports Letter of Credits, Collections, Guarantees & Trade Loan (IF/BA/EBP/LBP/FCTF/TR)

    Support Department: Trade Finance Operations

    Services Cut-off Time for receipt of instructions Turnaround Time
    Imports – Issuance of Letter of Credit/ Letter of Credit-i (LC/LC-i)
    By 3pm on T Day
    By 5pm on T Day
    Application received: By 3pm: T day by 6pm

    By 5pm: T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T + 1 Day by 12 noon

    Import Bills under LC/LC-i
    -New

    Import Bills under LC/LC-i
    -Acceptance


    Import Bills under LC/LC-i
    -Payment
    By 12pm on T Day

    By 3pm on T Day


    By 5pm on T Day


    By 3pm on T Day


    By 5pm on T Day

    All documents received: By 12pm: T day by 6pm

    After 12pm: T + 1 day before 12pm


    Acceptance instruction received: By 3pm: T day by 6pm


    By 5pm on T Day By 5pm: T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T + 1 Day by 12noon


    Payment Instruction received: By 3pm: T day by 6pm


    By 5pm: T day by system processing window provided FX rate has been contracted

    After 5pm: T + 1 day by 12noon

    Inward Bills for Collection/ Inward Bills for Collection-i
    -New

    Inward Bills for Collection/ Inward Bills for Collection-i
    -Acceptance

    Inward Bills for Collection/ Inward Bills for Collection-i
    -Payments
    By 3pm on T Day
    By 5pm on T Day

    By 3pm on T Day
    By 5pm on T Day

    By 5pm on T Day
    All documents received: By 3pm: Within the T day by 6pm

    By 5pm: Within the T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T + 1 day by 12noon


    Acceptance instruction received: By 3pm: T day by 6pm

    By 5pm: T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T + 1 Day by 12noon


    Instructions received: By 5pm: Within the T day by system processing window provided FX rate has been contracted

    After 5pm: T + 1 day by 12noon

    Exports - LC Advising/ LC Advising-i/ LC Confirmation/ LC Confirmation-i/ Transfer of Export LCs



    Export Collection under LC/ LC-i
    - Documents Examination


    Export Collection under LC/ LC-i
    1. Creation
    (for Clean Documents and Documents not require document checking)

    Export Collection under LC/ LC-i
    1. Payment
    By 4pm on T Day

    By 4pm on T Day

    By 4pm on T Day

    By 3pm on T Day

    By 4pm on T Day

    By 3pm on T Day
    By 4pm on T Day

    By 10am on T Day

    By 5pm on T Day

    All inward LCs received: By 4pm: within T day by 6pm

    After 4pm: T + 1 day by 12noon


    Confirmation request received: By 4pm: within T day by 6pm provided issuing bank limit is available

    After 4pm: T + 1 day by 12 noon provided issuing bank limit is available

    Transfer request received: By 4pm: Within T day by 6pm

    After 4 pm: T + 1 day by 12noon


    Documents received: By 3pm: Within T day by 5pm

    By 4pm: Within T day by 6pm

    After 4pm: T + 1 day by 12noon


    Documents received: By 3pm: Within T day for courier same day uplift pick up time (range from 5:30pm to 6:30pm by branch)

    By 4pm: Within T day by system processing window

    After 4pm: T + 1 day by 4pm


    Proceeds/Funds received: By 10am: Within T day by 12noon

    By 5pm: Within T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T + 1 day by 12noon

    Export Bills Purchase/ Export Bills Purchase-i
    - Documents Examination

    Export Bills Purchase/ Export Bills Purchase-i
    1. Creation


    2. Settlement
    By 3pm on T Day
    By 4pm on T Day

    By 3pm on T Day

    By 4pm on T Day

    By 5pm on T Day
    Documents received: By 3pm: Within T day by 5pm

    By 4pm: Within T day by 6pm

    After 4pm: T + 1 day by 12noon


    Documents received: By 3pm: Within T day for courier same day uplift pick up time (range from 5:30pm to 6:30pm by branch)

    By 4pm: Within T day by system processing window

    After 4pm: T + 1 day by 12noon


    Funds/Proceeds received: By 5pm: Within T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T+1 day by 12noon

    Outward Bills for Collection/ Outward Bills for Collection-i
    - Creation


    Outward Bills for Collection/ Outward Bills for Collection-i
    - Payment
    By 3pm on T Day

    By 4pm on T Day

    By 10am on T Day
    By 5pm on T Day
    Documents received: By 3pm: Within T day for courier same day uplift pick up time (range from 5:30pm to 6:30pm by branch)

    By 4pm: Within T day by system processing window

    After 4pm: T + 1 day by 4pm


    Proceeds received: By 10am: Within T day by 12noon

    By 5pm: Within T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T + 1 day by 12noon

    Shipping Guarantee/ Shipping Guarantee-i (SG/ SG-i)
    - New

    Shipping Guarantee/ Shipping Guarantee-i (SG/ SG-i)
    - Cancellation
    By 2pm on T Day

    By 2pm on T Day

    Application received: By 2pm: Within T day by 4pm

    After 2pm: T + 1 day by 12noon


    Application received: By 2pm: Within T day by 4pm

    After 2pm: T + 1 day by 12noon

    Bill of Lading (BL)/ Air Waybill (AWB) Endorsement/ Bill of Lading (BL)/ Air Waybill (AWB) Endorsement-i By 5pm on T Day Request received: By 5pm: Within 1 hour from receipt of request at counter
    Banker's Guarantee/ Banker's Guarantee-i (BG/BG-i) & Standby Letters of Credit/ Standby Letters of Credit-i (SBLC/ SBLC-i)
    - New / Amendment

    Banker's Guarantee/ Banker's Guarantee-i (BG/BG-i) & Standby Letters of Credit/ Standby Letters of Credit-i (SBLC/ SBLC-i)
    - Cancellation
    By 3pm on T Day
    By 5pm on T Day

    By 5pm on T Day
    Standard format banker's Guarantees applications received: By 3pm: Within T day by 6pm

    By 5pm: Within T day by system processing window

    After 5pm: T + 1 day by 12 noon


    Request received: By 5pm: T + 1 day by 12 noon

    After 5pm: T + 1 day by system processing window

    All Trade Loans/ Financing: including Invoice Financing/ Invoice Financing-i (IF/IF-i)/ Banker's Acceptance / Accepted Bills-i (BA/ AB-i)/ Trust Receipts/ Trust Receipts-i (TR/TR-i)/ Foreign Currency Trade Finance (FCTF) / Account Receivable Purchase (ARP)
    - Creation

    - Settlement or Extension
    For RENTAS transactions by 12pm on T Day
    All other transactions by 3pm on T Day

    By 3pm on T Day
    Applications received: By 3pm: Within T Day by 6pm

    After 3pm: T day by system processing window on best effort basis latest by 12noon on T+ 1Day

    For applications with 50 pages or less supporting documents received: Same day per existing turnaround time

    For applications with more than 50 pages supporting documents received: T + 1 Day
    *Or T day, on best effort basis.


    Instructions received: By 3pm: Within T Day by 6pm

    After 3pm: T day by system processing window on best effort basis latest by 12noon on T+ 1Day

    Incoming communication from counter party bank, e.g. tracer, rebuttal, correspondence, acceptance, refusal By 3pm on T Day

    By 3pm: T day by system processing window

    After 3pm: T + 1 day by system processing window

    Remarks: T Day is transaction day

    Terms and Conditions:
    All RENTAS related transactions must be received by the Bank by 12noon. The turnaround time for such transactions is by 3pm on the same day.

Trade Services cut off times