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Outlook for trade finance is bright

Friday, January 09, 2015

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François Dotta
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

EuroFin Asia Group is a global, independent merchant banking organization headquartered in Singapore that managers around $800m and engages in three activities: asset management, wealth management and private capital.

Its asset management arm is called EFA Merchant Finance, and its primary business is managing capital in a variety of financing strategies within the commodity and natural resource sectors. In 2006, EFA launched Asia's first fund with an exclusive focus on trade finance, the LH Asian Trade Finance Fund. In 2012, two more funds were launched with variations on the same underlying strategy, the EFA Dynamic Trade Finance Fund, and the Asia Islamic Trade Finance Fund.

In global international trade flows, commodity finance is an $18 trillion industry, François Dotta recently told Matthias Knab on Opalesque TV. Dotta is a Partner and Head of EFA Merchant Finance and joined the Eurofin group at its inception in 2003.

In that industry, the goods that are being moved from one place to another are generally split in four main categories, he explains; the fast mover consumer goods, the automotive and transport, the equipment, and natural resources, commodities, raw material.

The entry point of trade and commodity finance is the merchant, who needs logistics, profes......................

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