Export finance intelligence FAQ for bank desks
Export finance intelligence is agentic public-source market and credit intelligence for bank export finance desks: a ranked Deal Book with verbatim citations, country composites, organisation and country adverse media, and monitoring. It supports origination and credit-support workflows around buyer credit and export credit agency cover. It is not a closed-deal archive, not a terminal, and not a replacement for sanctions or PEP screening.
What export finance intelligence covers on bank desks
Export finance intelligence covers financeable public signals, explainable relevance ranking, citeable claims, host-country context, and organisation or country adverse-media drafts for human confirmation. On Stonewake those surfaces sit in one workspace so an EF file can move from pipeline triage to committee annex without rebuilding the source trail in email.
Capability detail is public in deal book scoring, citations and evidence, and country risk composite. Instrument definitions still come from the glossary and hubs such as export finance.
How a ranked Deal Book differs from a deal database
A ranked Deal Book emphasises early public signals for desk relevance and attaches verbatim quotes. A classical deal database emphasises closed-deal history, asset records, and league tables. Both matter; they answer different questions. Stonewake's Deal Book is an origination relevance aid, not a substitute for historical deal libraries used in league-table or comps work.
Desks that need completed-transaction archives and network events still use specialised EF or PF data products. Desks that need citeable early signals, country composites, and screening drafts in one evidence layer evaluate Stonewake beside those tools rather than as a one-for-one replacement.
Deal Book ranked pipeline versus news databases
The Deal Book is a ranked pipeline of financeable items, each with a three line deal summary generated from the cited findings by fixed rules, not by a model. Explainable 0-100 scoring uses six weighted components: stage, ECA angle, ticket, country, sector, and recency. Weights are tenant-tunable. A news database stores articles; it does not produce mandate-fit ranking alone.
Scores answer how relevant an item is to the tenant's filters. They do not grade credit quality, set OECD Arrangement premium, or decide ECA cover. Project finance desks read the same book with different weight priorities than pure EF originators.
Citation rules for customer-visible claims
Every customer-visible claim points to a stable public URL whose served text carries the verbatim quote, or the finding is honestly labelled Verified or Reported. Pagination indexes and homepage URLs that lack the quoted passage are not acceptable citation targets. Missing data stays missing; absence is never scored as safety.
That rule is the control story for second-line review. The deal summary states only what a source confirmed, and every line cites its quotes. Excel export of deals, developments, sources, countries, and screenings carries citations and dataset attributions so offline packs keep the trail.
Who the product is built for on bank desks
Stonewake is built for bank EF, PF, and CRE desks and sold directly, not through an anonymous online signup. Typical users are originators, credit analysts, and financial-crime partners who need citeable public-source research beside buyer credit and ECA product work.
It is not marketed as a retail research terminal for the general market. Procurement usually reviews residency, audit posture, and weight governance before broad rollout. Customer bank names are not used as proof points on this page.
How the offering differs from market terminals
Market terminals supply omnibus pricing, broad news, and general market data. Stonewake is a narrow desk product: public-source EF and PF pipeline ranking with quote-verified claims, country composites, and organisation or country adverse media. Overlap on news headlines is real; job-to-be-done overlap is limited.
Banks keep terminals for pricing and firm-wide market data. They evaluate Stonewake when the gap is ECA-aware triage, citation discipline, and country or screening context tied to the same book.
Country risk and adverse media in the same workspace
Country pages present an explainable 0-100 composite for a large jurisdiction set built from cited public components, including governance indicators, list posture, ratings inputs, and verified adverse news. Adverse media screening covers organisations and countries with quote-verified findings and draft Red, Amber, Green, or Nothing found verdicts for analyst confirmation.
Country risk under the OECD Participants' system remains a separate institutional classification for Arrangement Minimum Premium Rates. Stonewake composites are research views, not Participants classifications. Official sanctions screening stays on bank systems of record.
Compliance and residency posture for bank procurement
Data, the API and the MCP server run on a dedicated server in the EU. Stonewake never trains models on customer data. Scores and verdicts are drafts for human confirmation. The offering is not credit scoring and does not replace sanctions or PEP screening.
Detail sits in data residency and compliance. The public records notice sets out how personal data from public registers is handled. EU AI Act transparency notices appear in product; the public self-assessment is non-high-risk for the described use.
Monitoring briefs and Excel export of the book
Monitoring publishes verified news briefs for EF, PF, and CRE desks with citations to stable public sources. An Atom feed distributes those briefs. Regulator page changes flag human review and are not auto-ingested.
One-click Excel export produces a five-sheet workbook: deals, developments, sources, countries, and screenings. Export is distribution, not a new methodology. Committee packs that leave the UI still need the same citation completeness as on-screen findings.
Boundaries with sanctions screening and credit decisions
Stonewake does not determine politically exposed person status, and its checks against six official sanctions lists (the EU Financial Sanctions Files, the UK Sanctions List, the two OFAC lists, the Swiss sanctions list of SECO and the UN Security Council Consolidated List) sit beside a bank's own sanctions screening and never replace it. It does not issue unsupervised credit grades with legal effect. Adverse media may surface risk narratives before a listing appears; only designated sanctions tools create listing consequences.
Human analysts confirm draft scores and screening dispositions. Register-mining how-tos are intentionally omitted from public pages. Advantage workflows stay inside the authenticated product.
When a specialised deal database still fits better
A specialised deal database or league-table product fits better when the desk needs deep closed-deal history, asset-level comps, or event-driven networking as the primary job. Terminals fit better when the primary need is firm-wide pricing and omnibus market data.
Stonewake fits when the primary need is ranked public-source pipeline items with verbatim citations, country composites, and organisation or country adverse-media drafts in one evidence layer for bank desks. Fair evaluation keeps those categories separate rather than forcing a single-vendor myth.