We provide lender-ready capital raise packaging and debt or equity placement support for business owners and buyers looking to secure serious term sheets and close funding on a defined timeline.
For business owners and acquirers pursuing private debt submit your deal for review. We revert within one working day with next steps and either a quote for our services.
Finance your next trade, project or acquisition.
Debt structuring, targeted lender outreach and negotiation support through closing.
Paid advisory. Upfront retainer applies.
No standby, no signature. That is the line most applicants get in writing, and it is where the tender, the shipment or the advance payment stops.
We issue the standby in about seven business days, under ISP98 or URDG 758, from $10,000 flat. The outcome is a signed contract, a released advance or an accepted bid, delivered by a bank your beneficiary already recognises. Not a drafted instrument waiting in a queue.
The value is not the document. It is what the document unlocks. Here is what actually changes when the instrument lands in the beneficiary's bank.
"Subject to SBLC" comes off the contract. Signature, shipment and payment stop waiting on a bank queue, and your counterparty loses the reason it was using to hold. The commercial conversation moves to delivery, not to whether the paperwork will ever arrive.
Whether you are releasing an advance, extending payment terms or guaranteeing performance, the exposure moves onto a regulated bank's paper. The beneficiary can see it, their bank can verify it, and your cash is no longer the thing standing between the deal and signature.
The instrument matches the beneficiary's template under the ruleset their bank accepts. There is no rejection on presentation, no re-draft, and no renegotiated shipment window two months after the deal was supposed to start.
A named adviser runs your file from intake to delivery, answers the wording and bank questions directly, and stays on through amendments and extensions. The date agreed at review is the date we plan against, and you are never re-explaining the transaction to a new team.
Each category unlocks a different outcome. Select one to see what we issue, what we underwrite and what your counterparty actually receives.
The outcome is a signed supply, service or EPC contract. Your client was never refusing to proceed because they doubted the work. They were refusing because performance risk sat entirely with them, and the standby is what moves it.
The outcome is goods moving without cash leaving your account first. Your supplier wants assurance that the invoice will be paid, and the standby gives it to them without you funding the entire order upfront.
The outcome is the advance payment leaving the buyer's account. They were not withholding it to negotiate. They were withholding it because if you fail to deliver, the cash is gone with no recourse. The guarantee gives them the recourse.
The outcome is your bid being accepted for evaluation. A tender bond is the entry ticket, and without it the submission is not even opened. This is the simplest outcome on the page and the one with the hardest deadline.
ISP98 and URDG 758 both work. What matters is which one the beneficiary's bank will accept without sending the instrument back for amendment. We choose it at review based on the contract, the beneficiary and the market, confirm the choice with you in writing, and draft to it. That decision is ours to get right, not something you should have to research.
| Parameter | ISP98 | URDG 758 |
|---|---|---|
| Designed for | Standby letters of credit specifically | Demand guarantees and counter-guarantees |
| Common in | Financial standbys, trade payment support, US and international bank practice | Construction, EPC, public procurement, project finance guarantees |
| Draw conditions | Detailed document and statement requirements, flexible drafting | Demand and statement based, with explicit rejection and extension mechanics |
| Beneficiary preference | Often required by large financial beneficiaries | Often required by public sector and project beneficiaries |
| Our approach | Drafted to the beneficiary's ISP98 template, field by field, before issuance | Drafted to the beneficiary's URDG 758 template, including extension and rejection mechanics |
A wording dispute is not a paperwork detail. It is how an instrument gets rejected on presentation, how a shipment window gets renegotiated, and how a deal that was approved in principle quietly dies in month two. That risk is entirely avoidable, and avoiding it is part of what you are paying for.
Paste the exact language your beneficiary requires, or attach their template. We draft the instrument to it under the chosen ruleset and confirm every field with you in writing before issuance. You are not asked to interpret bank language or approve something you have not read.
If the language can be supported by a regulated issuing bank under ISP98 or URDG 758, we issue to it. If a clause cannot be supported, you hear it at review, with the reason and the alternative, long before anything is signed. Wording is agreed once, in writing, and it does not become a second negotiation after issuance.
You will know within one business day whether the instrument is issuable, which ruleset applies and what it costs. Nothing is paid before that answer, and the wording is agreed in writing before any bank is asked to issue.
That is the whole purpose of the wording review. We draft to their template under the ruleset their bank accepts, confirm every field with you in writing before issue, and refuse to issue on the assumption that they will accept something close enough. If their language needs to change to be supportable by a regulated bank, you hear it at review, not at presentation.
Send it. Specific wording is normal in this market, and it is not treated as friction on our side. We draft to it under ISP98 or URDG 758 and agree it with you in writing. If a clause cannot be supported, we tell you at review with the reason and the alternative, before anything is signed.
Eligibility and wording are confirmed within one to two business days of a complete file. Issuance typically takes about seven business days from the point the file and compliance are complete. What slows a file down is missing documents, not the bank's appetite, and we tell you at intake if your file falls into the slower group.
From $10,000 flat, confirmed in writing at review. A USD 500 confirmation payment releases the engagement contract and is credited against the total. Nothing further is payable until the instrument is issued. If we cannot issue, every fee paid to us is refunded in full.
No. Financely is an advisory and arranging firm, not a bank. The SBLC is issued by a regulated partner bank and delivered by authenticated SWIFT to the advising bank named in the instrument. We coordinate the wording, the compliance file and the bank dialogue, so the accountable point of contact is one person, not a committee.
A signed contract, LOI or tender document, plus the beneficiary's name, bank and any wording they require. The form accepts two uploads. Corporate and KYC documents can follow by email once the file is open, and the faster they arrive, the faster the issuance date.
This page is for general information only and does not constitute legal, financial or banking advice. SBLC issuance is subject to the issuing bank's credit approval, KYC and sanctions clearance, and the laws of the relevant jurisdictions. Ruleset selection, tenor and wording are agreed in writing before issuance. Timelines are indicative and begin once a complete file has cleared compliance. The fee, the USD 500 confirmation payment, the refund guarantee and any third party bank charges are governed by your signed engagement letter, which prevails in the event of any conflict with this page. Financely is an advisory and arranging firm, not a bank, and does not itself issue letters of credit.