Distributed, object oriented global trade finance system with imbedded imaging and work flow and reference data

A method of handling international trade commerce transaction financing, comprising:

• accessing the international trade finance work items comprising issuances, advisements, amendments and payments, at remote spoke user access locations in different time zones;
• and
• providing back office processing of the work items across multiple bank organizations, across the different time zones in real-time using a consolidated computer database in processing the work item, the database having multiple base currencies, each base currency corresponding to a country source of the transactions at a single consolidated hub processing location having one or more computers coupled to said remote locations

A method of handling international trade commerce transaction financing, comprising:

• accessing the international trade finance work items comprising issuances, advisements, amendments and payments and a document image related to the work item by the transaction financier staff through a user interface;
• and
• processing, through a single consolidated processing system, the work item across multiple bank organizations in real-time and providing the image of the document with constant processing and image availability using a consolidated database in processing the work item, the database having multiple base currencies.

A method of handling international trade commerce transaction financing, comprising:

• Accessing, through a user interface, international trade finance work items comprising issuances, advisements, amendments, and payments to the transaction financier staff;
• and
• Processing, with Around-the-clock capability, the work item across multiple bank organizations in real-time using a consolidated database in processing the work item, the database having multiple base currencies by a single consolidated processing system.

A method of handling international trade commerce transaction financing, comprising:

• Accessing, through a user interface, international trade finance work items comprising issuances, advisements, amendments, and payments;
• and
• Processing, by a consolidated processing system, work items across multiple bank organizations in real-time using business objects having an object hierarchy with common code in ancestor objects, reusable service objects providing services only, reusable component objects and hooks within the objects allowing addition of code without altering the common code and using a consolidated database in processing the work item.

A trade finance system, comprising:

• remote spoke user access locations providing access to trade finance work items;
• and
• a centralized hub processing location coupled to said remote locations and consolidating processing of the work items.

A trade finance system, comprising:

• remote spoke user access locations providing access to a trade finance work item and located in different time zones;
• and
• a hub processing location coupled to said remote locations and processing of the work item across the different time zones.

A computer readable storage media for controlling a computer by initiating trade finance processing of trade finance work items from geographically distributed locations and processing the work items in a centralized location.