What is trade finance?
Investec trade finance facilitates all your local and cross-border trade requirements, efficiently importing your goods while mitigating risk. Our team of experts offer an innovative and unique blend of documentary, open account and logistics services to develop bespoke trade finance solutions.
Import and trade finance
for South African businesses
An integrated suite of specialist trade services encompassing import logistics and finance for foreign or locally procured goods, designed for the purchase of stock on repayment terms aligned with your cashflow.
International trade finance
for corporates
Access an integrated suite of specialist trade services encompassing import logistics and finance for foreign or locally procured goods, designed to help you purchase stock on repayment terms aligned with your cash flow cycle.
Value adding services
Trade funding
Finance your stock purchase and logistics costs with trade credit that is optimised to your business’ cashflow and working capital cycle. Covers all pre-delivery costs on post-delivery terms.
Documentary finance
Backed by the full range of documentary trade finance instruments including import documentary letter of credit (LC), bills of exchange, bank guarantees, documentary collections and trust receipts.
Risk management
We minimise risk for both buyers and sellers through stringent due diligence, risk mitigation and assessment, and regulatory compliance, as well as through hedging of foreign exchange risk, including Customs duties, and freight risk.
Purchasing stock, trading internationally?
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Your benefits
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Optimise your working capital and liquidity cycle to focus on growth.
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Improve freight efficiency for optimised, reliable lead times
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Reduce risk around payment and delivery of your goods.
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Gain an accurate upfront understanding of costs and margin
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A single point of contact across your inbound supply chain
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Leverage improved merchant relations and payment terms
One point of contact for your inbound supply chain
For importers, we are more than just trade finance; we also facilitate order tracking, hedging of foreign exchange rates, and management of the import logistics, including the provision of an actual landed rand cost per item on delivery. Providing you with real time notifications on the status of your shipments, the ability to leverage our economies of scale, optimised lead times and a fully managed service for improved decision
making.
A fully integrated import solution that funds and ships your goods, removing complexities and providing greater visibility.
We think about your business like you do
We appreciate that your business is a lot more than a set of numbers and financial statements. We also know that business can be complicated and that funding your trade cycle can have a very real impact on your operations. Our value is that we can provide the right funding at the right time, allowing you to capitalise on opportunities and optimise your ability to grow profits.
Purchasing stock, importing into South Africa?
Get in touch with a team of experts.
