EAST PAY case studies: building a payment route
Deals where the payment route had to be built for a specific task: sanction constraints, three jurisdictions, a frozen supplier account.
A JCB payment to Georgia after 30 agents refused
The client sells construction machinery in Russia and needed to pay for a JCB delivery to Georgia. Before us, 30 payment agents had failed to make it happen.
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Paying for a crab shipment across three jurisdictions
An exporter needed to receive payment for a crab shipment: the goods went to South Korea, while the contractual supplier was a Russian company.
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Payment from China for a coal exporter, with no downtime
After shipping coal to China, the buyer couldn't pay because of sanctions — the delay risked daily penalties and major losses.
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Paying for industrial equipment from Europe
A manufacturer was buying machine tools in Europe, but the supplier refused a direct payment from Russia while delivery deadlines were closing in.
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Paying ocean freight on an import from Asia
An importer had to pay for ocean shipping and port services in Asia, but the freight payment kept stalling and the containers risked demurrage.
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Paying for marketing in China in dollars — cheaper than via VTB
A Russian company paid for marketing services in China through VTB, but the Chinese supplier couldn't open an account there — and its bank could only accept US dollars.
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Freight for a shipping line: funds with the supplier the next day
A shipping line was paying freight for its own vessel and had tried many payment agents before coming to us.
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A payment to South Africa for a logistics company in a single day
A logistics company couldn't find a payment agent to handle its importer's payment to South Africa.
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Returning export revenue for a cosmetics exporter to Europe
The company makes natural cosmetics and supplies them to Europe, but ran into trouble bringing its foreign-currency revenue back.
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Paying for furniture from China via Alipay after the supplier's account was frozen
An importer was ordering furniture from China, but the supplier's account was frozen — the only way left to pay was crediting yuan to the company's Alipay.
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