For those businesses that currently trade internationally or aspire to trade internationally CTF is here to lessen the worry and stress out of understanding trade finance and help you get to know how trade products and services can support your business.
We can be your guiding partner and work with you to get the best solutions from your financiers and be a source of help and information. Our Consultants will be able take you through most aspects involving the funding of International Trade and if something is of concern they will try and assist.
Our Consultants can:
- Identify where, with your current trading terms your business stands in the ‘Risk Ladder’: and/or
- Determine the trade cycle / time line and highlight any risks as well assess whether there is a working capital deficit: and/or
- Understand which trade finance products and solutions can best help bridge the deficit and mitigate the risk,
- Explain the fees and commissions structure that a financier may apply for the products and services see how some of this can become cost neutral.
- Point you in the right direction if you have a currency, country or buyer risk that concerns you,
- Help you understand the options to preserve that retention of title until you are paid or at the very least have a guarantee of payment thereby limiting or mitigating the risks in this area.
- Should you need help with finding alternative partners be they in finance, legal, freight, logistics, credit insurance or Government organizations, our database of contacts and website links may be the answer.
- If it is hands-on practical help that you are looking for then our Regional Consultants, all of whom have had long careers in trade finance with International banks and finance houses. They have a great deal of knowledge and experience, and therefore you can be confident about the quality of support and guidance they can provide.
- With our expertise we can help in preparing a detailed ‘Request for Trade Finance’ which you can present to your bank. Our Consultants can even accompany you to the meeting with your bank/financiers.
- As you would expect the Consultants’ help is not entirely free (except the first sixty minutes) but it will be affordable and the cost savings you can make with the right trade solutions or financial package will more or less cover the consultants charges, so effectively the support and service is 'cost neutral'.
Whatever your needs CTF with its consultants, partners and sponsors are just a phone call or e mail away and remember the first sixty minutes consultation is free and thereafter thirty minutes a month is also free