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WestLB Commodity Finance

Commodity Finance - financial pioneer for your global commodity flows

Discover the benefits of our experience and expertise in financing of your business throughout the commodity conversion cycle. Our Commodity Finance team provides a diverse range of financing products to support:

  • International trading  houses 
  • Commodity producers
  • Ex-& Importers of feed stock or capital goods servicing commodity producers

Commodity Finance arrangements are based on trade related, self-liquidating commercial transactions. Our product range includes all three key commodity sectors: Metals, Oil/Oil Products & Gas and Soft Commodities.  We create individual and tailor–made  financial solutions covering inter alia:

International Trading Houses:

  • Loans to trading houses to refinance advance payments to commodity producers
  • Transactional financing of the purchase and sale of commodities secured by the underlying stocks and receivables
  • Borrowing base transactions
  • General working capital loans

Commodity Producers:

  • Pre-production/-export financings 
  • Loans to commodity producers for the purchase of raw materials 
  • Tolling/processing finance 
  • Reserve based lending 
  • Countertrade 
  • Sale or lease finance of chattel equipment to emerging market producers (buy-back schemes) 
  • General working capital loans to emerging market commodity producers

 

Your Advantages at a Glance

  • One stop shop for the full service: advising, structuring and execution of loans
  • Tailor made solutions matching your commercial needs
  • Awarded Deal Teams with – over many years – well-founded and proven product, sector and market experience and know-how 

 

 

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