Structured commodity finance: techniques and applications for successful financing arrangements
Designed for arrangers and borrowers, this book is the first comprehensive and practical guide to the techniques of structured commodity finance transactions, such as export receivables-backed financing, prepayments, inventory financing and counter-trade - and its applications within the range of financing alternatives available to the commodity sector. Pre- export Financing Published in association with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, this book explains how structured commodity finance deals can be arranged to benefit from lower-cost, longer-tenor and more secured financing arrangements. Starting with the fundamental tenets of trade and commodity finance, this book explains: How to identify, value and mitigate riks focusing on due diligence Letters of credit, forfaiting and factoring Structuring techniques including inventory financing, pre-export financing, prepayments and export receivables Third-party credit enhancement and its provision through insurance and guarantees to tackle market, credit and political risk Implications for structured commodity finance in Islamic banking Analysis of the market and service providers including private, governmental and multilateral organisations. This book shows you how to deal with both market and political risk, including the use of insurance, guarantees and credit derivatives, together with an analysis of the market and providers of these services including private, governmental and multi-lateral organisations.