For complex cross-border trade and commodity flows, standard financing isn't enough. Financely specializes in Structured Trade & Commodity Finance, designing bespoke, self-liquidating financing structures that mitigate risk and make challenging transactions bankable.
Structure Your Trade DealStructured Trade Finance (STCF) moves beyond simple letters of credit to create highly customized financing solutions built around the trade flow itself. By securitizing the underlying commodities and receivables, we can arrange financing for producers, traders, and processors in situations where traditional corporate lending is unavailable, particularly in emerging markets.
Our process involves a deep dive into your trade cycle to build a robust structure that gives lenders the security they need to provide capital.
We analyze every component of the trade: performance risk, counterparty creditworthiness, political risk, logistics, and the commodity itself.
We design a bespoke structure, selecting the right tools—from pre-export finance to tolling arrangements—that best mitigate the identified risks.
We layer in risk mitigation techniques, such as securing offtake contracts, using collateral managers, and obtaining credit insurance.
We create a detailed information memorandum that presents the structured transaction clearly to our network of specialized trade finance lenders.
We help you secure a financing mandate and manage the transaction through to documentation, drawdown, and final settlement.
Provide producers with upfront capital against future export receivables, secured by the underlying commodity and offtake contracts.
Monetize commodities held in storage. Loans are secured by warehouse receipts or silo certificates, with oversight from a collateral manager.
Finance the transformation of raw materials into finished goods. The structure is secured by the raw commodity, the processing agreement, and the final product.
Facilitate deals in markets with currency controls by structuring transactions where goods are exchanged for other goods instead of hard currency.
Create sophisticated programs that provide liquidity across the entire supply chain, from supplier payment to final receivable collection.
Our specialty is creating bankable structures for transactions in challenging jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Don't let a complex supply chain or challenging jurisdiction stop your growth. Partner with Financely to access expert Trade Finance Structuring that unlocks capital and minimizes risk.
Financely advises growth-focused businesses on accessing capital by introducing their opportunities to professional investors. Financely is not a securities broker or dealer. Where appropriate, engagements are coordinated with regulated broker-dealers, investment banks, legal counsel, and other specialists.
Financely does not solicit, offer, or accept orders to buy or sell securities and makes no assurance regarding capital-raising outcomes.
Services are strictly business-to-business. Financely does not provide personal finance, consumer credit, or retail advisory services.
Advisory services are reserved for post-revenue companies that recognize the time and resources required for professional underwriting.
All mandates start with an RFQ. We review submissions, issue a brief Go/No-Go memo, and where bankable, release a Term Sheet that leads to funding. We arrange capital across Senior Secured, Unitranche, Second Lien/Mezzanine, Preferred Equity, and Gap Solutions. We do not process deals by email or chat.
Letters of Credit, Standby LCs, Confirmations, Receivables Finance, and Inventory Lines with control.
Funding arranged for trade flows with instruments sized to your cycle and aligned to delivery and settlement.
Move forward to secure working capital and keep goods moving. Submit the RFQ to start underwriting for funding.
Limited or non-recourse structures for energy and infrastructure with lender-ready materials.
Funding solutions aligned to project cash flows with credible covenants and conditions to reach notice to proceed.
Advance the file to termable status. Submit the RFQ so we can underwrite and secure funding.
Debt and Preferred solutions anchored on cash flow, Quality of Earnings, and clear closing mechanics.
Funding across senior, unitranche, and preferred to match stable cash flows and acquisition timelines.
Get financed on workable terms for closing. Submit the RFQ to start underwriting.
Acquisition, development, bridge, and refinance with lender-ready packs and third-party reports managed.
Funding calibrated to DSCR, leverage, and tenancy with terms designed to close.
Move to a financeable package. Submit the RFQ to initiate underwriting for funding.
KYC and Source of Funds required. Engagements are best-efforts and subject to underwriting. Preference for operating companies with meaningful revenue. See our FAQ and Procedure.
Financely Inc. (“Financely”) provides corporate-finance advice and is wholly owned by Aurora Bay Trust, a trust formed under Bahamian law, together with its authorized affiliates. Depending on deal structure, jurisdiction, and local rules, engagement may be carried out through Financely Group LLC, a non-deposit-taking non-banking financial company; Ashford Capital Advisory LLC; or another related entity. Financely and its affiliates are not registered as securities broker-dealers. When a mandate involves the purchase or sale of securities and a registered intermediary is required, all orders are introduced to and executed by a U.S. broker-dealer registered with the SEC and FINRA, acting as “chaperone” under SEC Rule 15a-6 (17 C.F.R. § 240.15a-6). Nothing here constitutes an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy or sell any security. Before proceeding, read our Terms of Service to confirm that engaging Financely Group LLC, Ashford Capital Advisory LLC, or any affiliate aligns with your legal and regulatory requirements.In the United States, we operate as an
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