• Documentary Instruments
• Structured Trade Finance
• Commodities
• Forfaiting and Syndications

In today's global economies, documentary instruments are essential to protect the interests of the buyers and the sellers and to facilitate payments in international trade. However, it is also of utmost importance to choose the right banking partner to entrust your documentary instruments because these require a high degree of precision, timeliness and good knowledge of the related international rules and regulations. Our experienced and professional staff will assist you in :

• Issuance and negotiation of import letters of credit, back-to-back letters of credit, stand-by letters of credit,
• Advising, confirmation and negotiation of export letters of credit. We offer extensive facilities to confirm/underwrite the payment risk of banks and countries worldwide,
• Red-clause and green-clause letters of credit, both import and export,
• Issuance, negotiation, confirmation and advising of payment guarantees, bid and performance bonds and advance payment guarantees,
• Import and export documentary collections, handled in accordance with your commercial requirements, either directly with your sellers and buyers or through our extensive network of correspondent banks.

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In order to facilitate the financing of your trade transactions, we have adopted a personalized and tailor-made approach to trade finance allowing a wide variety of financing schemes such as:

• Inland Financing
  • Prefinancing to selective CIS Mills
  • Railway bill financing
  • Elevator, silo receipt financing
• Port Financing
  • FCR Financing
  • Warehouse, Terminal receipt financing
• Others
  • Post-shipment financing (B/L)
  • Tolling/Processing Financing
  • Export receivable financing (under credit insurance)

One or several of the above financing schemes can be combined to structure your trade flows in function of the commodity, the terms of purchase and sale and the point of shipment and destination.

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One of our main strengths is our deep knowledge of most commodities traded between a variety of geographical areas in the world. BCP is a recognized name in most commodity markets including but not limited to :

• metals (ferrous, non-ferrous),
• soft commodities (rice, cereals, oleaginous seeds, vegetable oils, etc.)
• fertilizers
• textiles
• cotton
• cement
• coal
• chemicals and petrochemicals
• electronic components

and any other raw materials destined for the manufacturing industry.

However, please note that this list is only an indication. Our philosophy is customer-oriented rather than commodity oriented and we are able to assist our customers in financing any and all other types of goods, commodities and services they trade in function of the specific details of each transaction.

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We offer receivables discounting at fixed rates for exporters wishing to eliminate the financial and political risks associated with short and medium term supplier credits. Our forfaiting services include discounting without recourse of payment obligations under documentary letters of credit as well as bills of exchange, drafts and promissory notes generated as a result of international trade transactions, both for banks and selective corporate risks.

We are also active in the syndicated loans market for financial institutions in developing countries and structured commodity financing transactions.

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