Trust and due diligence

How to Verify a Genuine SBLC or Bank Guarantee Provider

Trade finance fraud relies on documents that look official and counterparties that cannot be checked. This page sets out the due-diligence steps that protect you with any provider, and the public records that let you verify Credit Glorious directly.

Checklist

Six Due-Diligence Checks Before You Engage Any Provider

Apply these to every counterparty, including us. A provider that resists verification is telling you something important.

  1. 01

    Confirm the legal entity exists

    Ask for the registered company name, registration number, and country of incorporation, then check them yourself in the official register. In the United Kingdom that is Companies House; in Hong Kong, the Companies Registry. A provider that cannot give you a verifiable registration number is not a provider.

  2. 02

    Check the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

    Regulated financial counterparties hold an LEI. Look the LEI up in a public LEI register and confirm the registered address and legal name match the documents you have been sent.

  3. 03

    Verify instruments only bank to bank over SWIFT

    A standby letter of credit, bank guarantee, or documentary credit is real only when it reaches your bank as an authenticated SWIFT message — MT760 for SBLC and bank guarantees, MT700 for documentary credits, with MT799 pre-advice where required. A PDF, scan, or emailed 'verbiage' is never proof of issuance.

  4. 04

    Never pay unrelated third parties

    Fees are payable only to the contracting entity named in your engagement documents, into an account in that entity's own name. Never pay a personal account, a payment agent you have no contract with, or an entity introduced by email at the last minute.

  5. 05

    Insist on written documentation before money moves

    A term sheet, an engagement letter or deed of agreement, and a clear fee schedule should exist before any payment. Read the governing rules cited (UCP 600, ISP98, URDG 758) and make sure they match the instrument being described.

  6. 06

    Verify the people and the channel

    Confirm names, roles, and email domains directly through the company's published contact channel rather than by replying to the email you received. Domain look-alikes are the most common vector in trade finance fraud.

Red flags

Warning Signs of a Fraudulent Instrument or Provider

  • Pressure to pay an 'advance fee', 'compliance fee', or 'SWIFT fee' to a third party or personal account
  • Instruments offered as PDFs, scans, or screenshots instead of authenticated SWIFT messages
  • Guaranteed loan-to-value, guaranteed approval, or guaranteed monetization before any verification
  • No verifiable company registration number, no LEI, or details that do not match the public register
  • Bank account details changed by email late in the process, or paying an entity you have no contract with
  • Refusal to name the issuing institution, the governing rules, or the delivery message type
  • Non-disclosure agreements used to prevent you from verifying the counterparty with your own bank
  • Unsolicited approaches promising below-market pricing on top-rated paper

Verify us

How to Verify Credit Glorious Specifically

Our registrations, identifiers, and verification channel are public. Check them before you send documents or funds.

UK company registration

Credit Glorious Property Holdings Ltd is registered in England and Wales under company number 13371479. You can confirm the registration, registered office, and filing history directly at Companies House.

Check Companies House record

LEI record — London entity

The London entity holds Legal Entity Identifier 254900UYJ9C1GAB82L89. The public LEI record shows the registered legal name and address.

View LEI record (London)

LEI record — Hong Kong entity

The Hong Kong entity holds Legal Entity Identifier 2549008OO9MWNARAI750, registered under Hong Kong company number 2644773.

View LEI record (Hong Kong)

Compliance verification channel

Any document, invoice, payment instruction, or communication claiming to come from Credit Glorious can be verified with our compliance team at compliance@cgph.info. We will confirm in writing whether it originated from us.

Email compliance@cgph.info

London office

9-10 Staple Inn, 2nd Floor

London WC1V 7QH

United Kingdom

Company No. 13371479

Hong Kong office

50 Bonham Strand

Sheung Wan

Hong Kong SAR

Company No. 2644773

Our standing commitments to you

  • We never ask you to pay an unrelated third party or a personal account.
  • We deliver instruments bank to bank over authenticated SWIFT, never as a PDF alone.
  • We name the governing rules and the issuing institution in the documentation.
  • We confirm the authenticity of any document in writing via compliance@cgph.info.

Further detail is set out in our legal notice.

FAQ

Verifying Providers and Instruments: FAQs

Discuss your transaction with a trade finance specialist

Share your contract and counterparty details. We respond with a feasibility view, indicative pricing, and the document list for your structure.