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 | Export Credit |
Calyon provides clients with solutions for financing their capital equipment exports and certain of their foreign investments. Most of our transactions involve setting up buyer or supplier export credits guaranteed by public credit insurance agencies. We also offer co-financing arrangements with multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank's International Finance Corporation unit (IFC), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), and financing loans with or without private insurance coverage. Our transactions also sometimes include other products such as letters of credit, forfaiting, capital market transactions, etc.
Export Finance is organised as a global business line at Calyon and has a staff of nearly 90 divided into three units:
A unit designed for importing clients with four "import" areas (Africa and the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas). Located in Paris, it relies on our international network of locally-based Senior Bankers,
The "export" group serves exporting clients and has close relations with credit insurers, with specialists based in 15 countries supported by coordination units in Paris and Hong Kong,
A "Loan Documentation and Negociation" team is responsible for documenting transactions and monitoring risks.
| Structured Commodity Finance |
The Structured Commodity Finance business line is centralised in London and proposes structured finance solutions with repayments guaranteed by the proceeds from commodity exports. Calyon offers financing solutions to commodities producers and exporters throughout the world. The business line's 25 professionals are specialised by geographic region – Africa/Latam, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russian, Asia and Central Asia – and are supported by dedicated units in our international network in New York, Hong Kong and Moscow.
Calyon's product range is broad and includes: - Export pre-financing, i.e. direct loans to producers,
- Pre-payment, i.e. limited recourse loans to buyers to finance the pre-payment of a producer's exports,
- Barter, i.e. the exchange of one product for an amount of another product of equivalent value,
- Swaps, i.e. the exchange of one product for the same product but of different quality,
- Processing financing, i.e. the financing of the import of commodities, paid back out of the proceeds from the export of finished or partially processed goods.
| Transactional Commodity Finance |
The Transactional Commodity Finance unit addresses the needs of major international traders and producers involved in commodities markets, and offers financing and payment-security solutions for the flows of raw materials and semi-finished short term goods between producers and consumers. With its base in Geneva, the world capital in this area, the business line relies on a dedicated staff of account managers and a documentary credit department with extensive experience in commodities.
Products and areas of expertise - Documentary credits,
- Guarantees,
- Short term treasury multicurrency line,
- Exchange rates hedging,
- Structured trading in soft goods and metals – pre-financing, tolling, etc.,
- Hedging product promotion through Calyon Financial,
- Geographical Risks buy-out on well established counterparts (States and similar).
| Trade Finance |
Trade finance is one of Calyon's core businesses. It continues to develop steadily thanks to its:
- Specialised sales force with operations in nearly 40 countries serving the needs of all the Calyon and Crédit Agricole clients involved in international trade,
- Extensive product range (documentary credits and payments, international guarantees, non-recourse purchase of commercial receivables of all types, or forfaiting) capable of providing solutions for securing and financing cross-border commercial transactions,
- Substantial capacity for underwriting counterparty risk, vis-à-vis both financial institutions and importing companies,
- Web-based remote banking application, the easy-to-use secure transactional portal Optimtrade,
- Partnership agreement with TradeCard, a platform enabling users (buyers and suppliers) to automate the supply chain entirely and also providing online access to related financial services),
- Advisory services for international trade transactions (assessment of country risks, structuring of transactions, counterparty risk hedging strategies, off-balance sheet accounting, etc.).
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