The Bank Payment Obligation is the firm commitment by a financial institution to pay a certain sum to a bank (the exporter’s bank) on the occurrence of certain conditions agreed in advance by the trade’s parties, and that results from the data’s IT exchange between the intermediary banks of the operation.
Unlike the traditional forms of documentary credit, it does not require a bank's commitment to pay a company. Still, the payment made towards another bank will provide the funds' transfer. The documents' exchange is the core of the trade finance's operations replaced by IT data, shared among banks via SWIFT.
With a Bank Payment Obligation, there is the protection of a documentary operation without the documents’ exchange, replaced by an IT exchange on designed platforms for the interaction between financial institutes recognized on all the international markets, like Credit Glorious Property Holdings.