FCO Verification: Before You Act on a Full Corporate Offer
A Full Corporate Offer reads more formal than an SCO, and that formality is precisely its danger: it changes nothing about the burden of proof while inviting you to feel that it has. The same three proofs — counterparty, commodity, transaction — remain entirely open until independently verified.
Authority to issue
An FCO binds nobody unless the issuer has authority over the goods. Verify the issuing entity, the signatory's role, and — where the issuer is not the producer — every link of the mandate chain back to the titleholder. Each link should be independently confirmable; a chain with one unverifiable link has zero verified links.
Procedure review
FCO procedures deserve a documentary-practice review: payment instruments that exist and combine sensibly, inspection before irrevocable value transfer, and documentary conditions a bank can actually check. Procedures demanding instruments in impossible sequences (for example, payment guarantees before any evidence of goods) are a structural failure, not a negotiation point.
Verification checklist
- Verify every link of the mandate chain to the titleholder
- Confirm the offered instruments exist and sequence sensibly
- Require inspection before any irrevocable transfer
- Verify banking parties are real and geographically coherent
- Escalate to independent physical verification before commitment
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