Our vision

Making commodity trade safe to trust.

Every year, real buyers lose real money to offers that were never real: sellers who don't exist, bank instruments that were never issued, tanks with no product in them. Our mission is simple: no one should have to send money or open an LC on trust alone.

⚖ The problem we are solving

Commodity trade runs on documents and trust between people who have never met.

• Up to 1% of trade-finance deals, worth more than USD 50 billion, may be fraudulent (ICC, reported by FinTech Global, Nov 2025).
• In Rotterdam alone, the port's anti-fraud task force has blacklisted over 1,250 fake terminal websites, and deals worth EUR 2.5 billion were reported to it in 2025 (Port of Rotterdam, Feb 2026).
• Banks have fraud teams and expensive tools. The small importer, the trader and the mandate usually have only Google and a phone. They are the ones who lose the most.

✓ What we do today

We check the deal, not just the company:

• Free Deal Check: paste any offer and see the red flags in seconds.
• Full check: company registry in the local language, directors and signatory, sanctions screening, documents matched to each other, and a clear guide to confirming a bank instrument bank-to-bank.
• On the ground: site visits at origin by our field officers, and storage-terminal checks for oil and fuel offers.
• A report your bank can accept: an independent report you can name in your letter of credit, with a free LC Clause Kit.

➜ Where we are going

We are building, step by step, the trust layer for physical commodity trade.

1. A check before every deal. Checking a counterparty should be as normal as asking for a price. It should be fast, affordable and available to everyone, not just large companies.
2. A standard everyone recognises. The Vanguard Verified Passport lets an honest seller prove who they are with one link. Buyers can ask for it, and banks can name our report in an LC.
3. A shared trust record. Every check teaches us something: fake domains, copied documents, impersonated terminals, recycled bank texts. That knowledge protects the next buyer before they lose money. We never publish anyone's name as a "scammer". We share patterns, not accusations.
4. Safer deals from start to finish (planned). With licensed partner banks and inspection companies, we want verified buyers and verified sellers to close deals with safer payment and financing, so honest trade becomes faster and cheaper than risky trade.

◆ What we will always stand for

• Independent. We report only to the person who asked for the check. We never contact your counterparty without your permission, and information from checks is never used for trading.
• Honest about limits. Every report says exactly what we checked and what we could not check. We never say "guaranteed".
• Fair to everyone. We describe facts and red flags. We never call a named company a fraud.
• Open to the small player. The first check is free, and the most important protections stay affordable for a small importer.

● Who we serve

• Importers, food and feed manufacturers, and refiners buying sugar, edible oils, grains, fertiliser, cement and fuel.
• Traders, mandates and consultants who need to protect their reputation and their commissions.
• Honest sellers who want buyers to trust them faster.
• Banks, trade-finance lenders and inspection partners who need a clear, independent view of a counterparty.

■ Who is behind Vanguard Verify

Vanguard Verify is run by Vanguard Trade Capital Goods Wholesalers DWC-LLC, a licensed company in the Dubai South Free Zone, UAE (Licence 14282).

It was founded by a former bank trade-finance and fraud specialist:

• trade-finance background in SBLCs and documentary credits at Barclays;
• credit-risk and fraud analytics at American Express.

He built Verify after seeing how many honest traders lose money before a deal even starts.