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Trade Finance

At Crown Agents Bank we offer a wide range of trade finance products and services that facilitate and protect your international transactions. Our trade finance solutions can assist companies, banks, and institutions with funding, letters of credit, and risk management.

Designed to make cross-border trade simpler and more certain for our clients, we offer financing that enables businesses to send and receive goods and services around the world and into the most challenging or underserved markets.

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Trade with confidence

Enabling trade with certainty

Engaging in international trade can be complicated, time-consuming, and risky. From unfamiliar currencies, regulations, and laws to managing logistics, banking delays and errors, there are many aspects of cross-border trade that can be challenging for even the most experienced businesses.

Our global trade finance solutions are built to reduce risk, provide certainty, and increase efficiency. We combine our in-depth understanding of the markets we serve with practical and trusted solutions that help our clients to deliver on their promises and protect relationships with customers and suppliers around the world.

Benefits of our market-leading Trade Finance platform

Guaranteed funding

Structured trade finance that provides certainty for buyers and sellers.

Letters of credit

Tools that help ensure transactions are settled on time and with less risk.

Export and import know-how

Advice on navigating complex or emerging markets.

Currency and risk mitigation

Structured trade solutions to address foreign exchange, credit, and operational risk.

Efficient processing

Simplified documentation and a more seamless transaction experience.

Partner network

Trusted relationships to help move goods and services globally.

Hard to source currencies, seamlessly delivered

Access 120+ currencies across 800+ currency pairs

Our currency capabilities span Africa, LATAM, the Caribbean, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, as well as G10 countries. A full list can be found below.

120
currencies and markets
800
currency pairs
Sectors

Customer segments

Structured Solutions

Crown Agents Bank works closely with clients on project finance, liquidity, bespoke funding to support their strategic goals, and offers tailored strategies for risk management, capital optimisation, market insight, and new opportunities.

Guaranteed Deposits

Our deposits service provides secure, flexible solutions for managing surplus funds and offers a range of competitive deposit products, enabling organisations to optimise returns while keeping capital readily accessible.

FX

Our FX service allows organisations to leverage our robust network and deep market expertise, exchange currencies swiftly and securely across a wide range of markets, with competitive rates and seamless global transactions.

Payments

Our payments service enables fast, secure cross-border transfers, even in emerging markets, with timely, reliable settlement for all payment needs. We deliver transparent, compliant, and efficient solutions to support your organisation’s global goals.

Derivatives

Our derivatives FX solutions at Crown Agents Bank help clients manage currency risk and market volatility, offering tailored products like forwards and options. We deliver flexible strategies suited to challenging emerging and frontier markets.

Sectors

Customer segments

Banks

Trusted expertise, robust infrastructure and strong regulation to simplify cross-border and local operations, access hard-to-trade currencies, and manage liquidity confidently.

Non-Bank Financial Institutions

Access reliable currencies and cross-border payment corridors with ease, security and scalability, empowering confident transactions in evolving markets.

Humanitarian & Development Organisations

Whether you are moving large volumes to local banks or making multiple smaller transactions to get funding to projects on the ground, we have experience and expertise to make it easy.

Corporates

Operate across diverse and challenging markets where traditional banks face difficulties, with reliable, fast and cost-effective solutions for cross-border payments, FX and trade finance.

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