INVESTMENT BANKING
STRUCTURED TRADE & SME FINANCE
Our structured nance desk provides capital solutions (funded and non-funded) outside the traditional fall back on security
derived from conventional forms of collateral. We have expertise in trade nance, securitization and commodity nance.
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Trade Finance
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Asset-backed Security (“ABS”)
Our Trade nance desk aims provide nancing ABS is a nancial security collateralized by a pool of
solution to aid domestic and international trade while assets such as royalties or receivables and other cash
reducing delivery and settlement risk. This type of generating asset. ABS allows issuers generate more cash,
nancing creates a safety net to protect the interests which, in turn, is used for more lending while giving investors
of buyers and sellers in the international marketplace the opportunity to invest in a wide variety of income-
and help complete transaction that may involve generating assets. Usually, the underlying assets of an ABS
multiple currencies. Some of these products include: are illiquid and can't be sold on their own. But pooling the
lending, issuance of letters of credit, bill for collection, assets together and creating a nancial security, a process
export credit and nancing. called securitization, enables the owner of the assets to
make them marketable. The underlying assets of these
pools may be home equity loans, automobile loans, or
other expected cash ows.
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