Trade and Sustainable Commodities Finance

Our Trade and Sustainable Commodities team finances commodities related projects and provides trade finance services to cover commodity clients and exporters against non-payment risk. 

It accompanies traders and players/processors, in three commodity businesses: energies, metals and agriculture.  It fosters strong relationships with its clients on a day-to-day basis.

The Trade and Sustainable Commodities team is located in Paris, Geneva, New York, Houston and Hong Kong, covering markets globally.

It supports clients in the shift towards sustainable commodities trading on the three businesses it focuses on, thus contributing to bring positive impact.

Our solutions

Financings such as transactional financing (uncommitted, bilateral, secured), pre-export finance and prepayments secured borrowing base finance, unsecured corporate finance, revolving credit facilities and acquisition finance (corporate and asset-based) for:

  • Traders
  • Producers
  • Processors/Refiners
  • Refiners
  • Distributors
  • Corporates with commodities financing needs
     

Covering of commodity clients and exporters against non-payment risk on end-users/banks, covering these end-users against the non-transferability of funds caused by political or economic events or due to corporate failure as well as granting secured financing to end-buyers.

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Our Experts' Views

31 May 2024
Rethinking farming, food production and how we finance it
The rapid population growth clearly means food production needs to rise, but any increase in outcome will need to be...
Expert views
The rapid population growth clearly means food production needs to rise, but any increase in outcome will need to be done sustainably.
Rethinking farming, food production and how we finance it

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