Calyon offers a full range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international private banking.
Calyon, an expert in transactional commodity finance
The transactional commodity finance team is active in three areas viz Energy (oil and by products, coal and biofuels), soft commodities and metals.
A broad spectrum of solutions
The business line offers a wide range of financing solutions in the area of flows of commodities either under production or ready for export.
Such short term transactional finance is provided mainly in the form of letters of credit and guarantees, together with up and downstream cash facilities. Proposed financing also include crop/seasonal credits, tolling, refining and packaging before shipment.
A full range of products
- documentary credits / guarantees and surety bonds
- treasury lines denominated in USD, euros and many other currencies.
- interest rate and foreign exchange hedge lines
- structured operations for less than one year, such as crop/seasonal credits, export prefinancing and tolling,
- promotion and financing of hedging products through Calyon Financial (futures) and Calyon Derivatives (synthetic products)
- confirmation of bank risks, discounting of bank signatures
- repurchase of risks on established counterparties and geographical risks (drawee risk, purchase undertaking).
An organization based in Geneve, a worldwide network
Based in Geneve, the Calyon Group’s transactional commodity finance international centre operates an extensive worldwide network with locations in Paris, New York, Moscow, São Paulo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing (due to start in late 2008).
It offers the expertise of International trade specialists backed by documentary credits professionals.
