Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 Winners Edition

Trade Finance Firm of the Year CGI 7 Hanover Square, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10004, United States Tel: +1 212 612 3600 | Fax: +1 212 612 3636 | Webiste: www.cgi.com Frank Tezzi - Vice-President, Trade and Supply Chain Finance Tel: +1 704 821 1715 | Email: frank.tezzi@cgi.com FIRM PROFILE CGI Trade360 is the only front-to-back, end-to-end trade and supply chain platform with fully integrated traditional trade, payables, receivables, collateral management and cash management solutions delivered from a private, highly secure community cloud. CGI Trade360 delivers all the software, infrastructure and support resources necessary to power a bank’s global trade business. As a result, banks can provide the full range of trade and supply chain services to their corporate customers anywhere, anytime, with superior customer service and dramatically improved management capabilities and processing efficiency. CGI Trade360 supports banks’ trade business in over 80 countries from 130 locations throughout Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania, as well as 30,000+ corporate users. CGI Trade360 is composed of a world- class corporate portal, a supplier portal, and a transaction processing system that unites the bank’s front, middle and back-office into a high performance and paperless workflow. Advanced real-time reporting and clean XML-based integration architecture deliver global visibility and ease of integration. All aspects of traditional trade are supported, including documentary LCs, standby LCs, guarantees, collections, banker’s acceptances, deferred payments and more. The supply chain/open account capabilities include nearly 20 payables and receivables solutions. The payables solutions include integrated payables (approved payable finance, buyer discounted payments and invoice payments), bank assisted open account, standalone approved payables finance, open account payments, trade loans and buyer finance. The receivables solutions include integrated receivables (invoice financing and payment/invoice cash application), pre-shipment financing, standalone receivables financing, export financing, post-shipment financing, and trade loans. CGI Trade360 provides amulti-functionpurchaseorder and invoiceportfolio manager that supports the solutions above, including invoice to purchase order matching. The integrated receivable management solution provides customers with highly efficient accounts receivable payment-to-invoice matching and working capital improvements through invoice financing. The cash management solution provides account balance and activity queries, funds transferred between accounts, domestic single and bulk payments, cross border payments, distribution of direct debit authorisations and real-time FX contract booking. The collateral management solution supports commodity finance and structured trade finance in conjunction with the other trade products on the platform. M A & AWARDS 2015 50 Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 www.finance-monthly.com USA