Trade Finance
A buyer and seller can agree a trade. Without finance, guarantees, settlement and risk capacity, the trade still doesn’t happen.
That gap is where we work.
Global Markets connects African banks and businesses with the financial institutions and risk capacity needed to make cross-border trade happen.
Our focus is especially strong between Africa and Asia.
Bank-to-Bank Connectivity
Trade follows banking relationships.
We connect African financial institutions with Asian banks capable of providing liquidity, correspondent relationships, transaction banking and trade facilities.
Trade Liquidity
We work on facilities that allow African banks and businesses to finance imports, exports and working capital.
Guarantees & Risk Mitigation
Where credit or country risk limits trade, we bring in institutions that can change the risk equation.
- DFIs
- Export Credit Agencies
- Credit Insurers
- Guarantee Providers
ECA & Procurement Finance
Asian export credit agencies and policy institutions can provide powerful financing routes where African projects involve qualifying Asian goods, services or contractors. We connect the project, the financing institution and the eligible commercial relationship.
Africa × Asia trade
Trade finance is not separate from our capital-markets work. It is another expression of the same proposition.
Connect African opportunity with Asian financial capacity.
Explore Africa-Asia AccessCapital and relationships only work when institutions have the technical capability to use them well.
That is why the wider DWM platform is also building The Banking Academy.
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Global Markets works with institutional and professional counterparties across Africa and Asia.