Venator Trading & Finance

Venator Trading and Finance Limited (“VTF”) help businesses expand into more challenging markets by supporting institutional & private introductions willing to provide funding for transactions in such markets when the risks are appropriately controlled and mitigated.

Who We Are

Venator Trading and Finance Limited (VTF) works both independently and in conjunction with Venator Risk Management Limited (VRM) to help clients find appropriate finance for their plans to expand in riskier markets, VRM being the key to controlling and mitigating that risk.

VTF leverage their global network to assist clients in funding new business at home and abroad, providing new sales opportunities, new supply channels, new markets and new strategic opportunities.

The management of VTF have over 100 years combined experience working within the banking and financial sectors. We are involved in a cross section of financial services, both institutional and private.

VTF offers long-standing knowledge, specialist expertise and a global network that can enable clients an opportunity to obtain specialist, niche funding as required.

Each proposal will be assessed on a case by case basis. VTF are willing to look at higher risk situations where VRM services mitigate and manage such risk.

What We Do

Funding Existing and New Trade

VTF management have many decades of combined experience, working in both developed and emerging markets. We have established relationships that provide flexible trade financing from both traditional and non-traditional financiers.

Whether you are an importer, exporter, producer, or financial institution, managing risk effectively is one of the key factors in the ability to obtain the necessary finance to grow into new markets.

VTF management have the technical expertise and experience of trade structures and specific trade instruments, together with enhanced due diligence and governance, to enable introductions to the most competitive financing in all markets. Such finance may include:

Structured long-term Finance,
Bonds and Guarantees,
Letters of Credit
Trade loans
Pre-Export finance

Upon instruction we assess all opportunities to support introductions to appropriate parties. Our service follows through from inception to completion.

Freeing Up Working Capital

Releasing capital to create new working capital to improve cashflow can be a major factor in providing trading businesses an opportunity to grow. VTF is here to develop a range of banking and business partnerships that will enable injections of capital tailored for each client’s requirements:

Stock Financing. Capital tied up in stock, or other inventory, provides an opportunity for cash to be released for working capital to expand into new markets by using the stock as collateral.

Asset Financing. Company assets, such as plant and machinery, can be used as collateral for term loans to give you the necessary working capital to grow.

Supply Chain Financing. We can explore your supply chain to provide an opportunity to obtain credit facilities, which will free up working capital throughout your supply chain, enabling further growth potential.

Accounts Receivable Financing. Receivables, such as your outstanding invoices, can be used through our network to produce new working capital, when you need it.

Funding and Leasing New Equipment and Development

For viable propositions we are able to operate in most trading sectors areas of the world. VTF has a particular focus on agriculture, energy and communications.

Equipment and infrastructure, such as renewable energy installations, CNG generation plant, water infrastructure, fertiliser blending facilities, climate-controlled warehousing, specialist equipment and machinery, irrigation and bio-fuel production, have the potential to increase your production and capacity utilisation and thus improve efficiency and profitability.

Operating Leases. You enjoy the full benefits of the latest technology and equipment – preserving working capital – while not being subject to the risks and costs of ownership. Single monthly (tax deductible) payments.

Sale and Leaseback. You may wish to raise capital by a sale and leaseback arrangement for your assets over an agreed term. You will continue to use your assets without disruption.

Development finance. Loans and other structured finance to invest in improving production, downstream processing or even lower cost energy generation

Strategic Partnerships, Offtake Placings and Sales Growth

Growth for your business requires access to sales channels. VTF will help you penetrate extensive worldwide networks to place your products in new markets.

Where future production forecasts are credible, and we identify credit-approved buyers willing to enter into suitable long-term offtake agreements, you may be able to enjoy innovative financing to help fund the equipment and machinery necessary to increase your production.

Domestic and cross border expansion can be initiated by forming strategic partnerships where there are mutual benefits. VTF specialise in identifying suitable strategic partners for most sectors. We make the introductions. We maintain ongoing relationships.

How We Do It

VTF will help clients gain the financial support needed to succeed and grow their businesses. We do this by accessing our extensive networks built up over the last 50 years of business at home and overseas. We have an extensive network of private funders where traditional banking does not work.

VTF management and associates have long-term experience working in all areas of banking and financial services world-wide and put that expertise to work for emerging market opportunities.

We work closely with banks, sovereign and private funds, DFI’s, Impact Funds, FinTech, Export Banks, and other Trading Houses.

Our aim is to achieve tailored solutions for clients, whether the proposed transaction is in a developed economy, an economy in transition, a developing economy, or in the least developed countries where any form of credit is virtually impossible, but where our associated company, VRM, provides the risk mitigation services needed by our financiers to achieve your desired goals.

We will require full details of your funding requirements to build a viable business plan. We work in conjunction with VRM, who will need to visit all facilities to carry out due diligence, risk assessment and preparatory work prior to offering a tailored Risk Management Plan (RMP) to achieve your plans to expand.

Industry Focus

We are product agnostic and can look to work with almost any products, from oil and gas to metals, but our foremost focus is on Agri-Products, Biomass, Biofuel and Agricultural and Factory Processing Equipment: