Know where your next new customer is?
We know. Ask us.
PIERS trade intelligence enables you to locate and qualify prospects, match trade finance products to
your customer needs, and easily contact financial executives. Gain an instant and deep understanding
of companies actively involved in global trade to expand your business and monitor the marketplace.
The best prospects for your trade finance products may be in markets,
regions or industries new to you... Where in the world will you find the
businesses that need and qualify for
the financial services and
letters of credit your institution offers?
With PIERS data, you can identify, evaluate and qualify prospective
customers for import-export letters of credit, remittances and other
trade finance products.
» Rapidly evaluate new market opportunities.
» Compare regions and identify trade fluctuations as they occur.
» Conduct background research, perform business development
discovery & due diligence.
» Identify and prequalify corporate executive prospects.
» Forecast and chart trade financing demands by industry,
economic sector or geographic region.
Spend less time researching and
more time closing deals...
PIERS trade intelligence is a specialized resource
that has been integrated with Dunn and Bradstreet information to provide:
- A view into top trading partners and
commodities of a company - Names and addresses for non-U.S. exporters
and U.S. importers & exporters - Company overview, demographics, and
current corporate names, titles, phone,
fax numbers and email information - Bank name (U.S. imports)
- Number of financed shipments
- Estimated shipment dollar value
Evaluate New Opportunities…
Identify and qualify prospects by drilling down into trade transaction data to learn the size and estimated value of their shipments. Then access their contact and profile information to serve your marketing and sales efforts.
Only PIERS has staff
members gathering
trade
data at every
major U.S. port
And Learn More About Your Current Customers
One PIERS client, a regional bank, discovered a key customer had significantly expanded its cross-border business ... but was relying on a competitor for trade financing. After one year - and a highly-focused sales effort - that same customer is the bank's top consumer of trade finance products and its top growing revenue generator overall. The bank's one-time outlay for PIERS trade data has been returned 50-fold.
- Identify and qualify companies that require international financing and letter of credit
- Study the purchasing patterns of current clients to uncover broader and deeper
financing opportunities - Detect emerging import-export trends early - so you can move first into new markets
- Identify trends in global trade to project future demand for financing by region and industry
and support
– ask about our country data that interests you!
More than a "snap shot" of financial status, PIERS international trade finance data provides a continuously updated account of your prospective customer's trading activity.
The PIERS trade-flow database is unique in the world. Launched over 30 years ago as the Journal of Commerce's first venture in electronic information, PIERS collects data from over 25,000 Bills of Lading every day. Ours is the most timely, accurate, comprehensive information on trade through U.S., Mexican, Latin American, and Asian ports available anywhere.
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more about PIERS?
Complete the information to the right and a PIERS Data Solutions Expert will contact you to provide more information or schedule a product demonstration.
Or call us at 800.952.3839, option 2
(973.776.8660 outside the U.S.)