- Project finance
Expertise in African project finance allows our Corporate Banking division to be competitive whilst adapting financing structures to the operational challenges of each individual project.
- Large-scale export finance
We facilitate export credits, buyer’s credits and commercial loans. We arrange pre and post export financing in order to secure the best financing mechanisms available.
- Commodity finance
We provide credit lines to commodity trading firms to help them manage their African risk. Facilities include general corporate needs financing, issuance of several types of letters of credit and payment undertakings, inventory finance and discounting of bills.
- Asset-backed financing
We structure tailor-made solutions that respond to the nature of the company and its needs, offering the most competitive financing terms.
Our main services include :
- Reserves-based lending for oil,
- Gas and mining companies,
- Receivables-backed lending for different types of firms including agri-business, transport or power companies.
To support manufacturers, processors and distributors, our Corporate Banking division offers warehouse financing facilities which are backed by goods, such as commodities. An independent collateral manager monitors these goods and issues warehouse receipts, which allows disbursements of the corresponding credit amounts.
We also provide financing to shipping companies and airlines, secured by vessels or aircrafts.
- Acquisitions and leverage finance
The Corporate Banking division works very closely with clients to help them design and execute optimal capital structures to fund acquisitions throughout Africa, including cross-border acquisitions, private or public bids, mergers, buy-outs and spin-offs.
- Working capital needs facilities
These are short-term credit facilities in the form of an overdraft to help clients optimise their cash flow management.