CORPORATE FINANCE
Starting mainly as a corporate lender to large conglomerates in the region since 1984, the bank has evolved into a multi-faceted operation with emphasis now focused on structured finance in addition to corporate finance.
Geographically, the Corporate Finance department covers the whole of the Asia Pacific Region, north to Japan/Korea/China and south to Australasia. Currently, key countries of concentration are Singapore, Greater China and South Korea.
Export Credit
The bank works with suppliers to assist them in financing their sales to government and non-government bodies in the region through the provision of buyer credit facilities covered by OECD export credit agencies.
French and other MNCs
The bank’s main aim in this area is to provide banking and financial services to support the investment and trade activities of its core customers from France and elsewhere in Europe who are established in the Asia Pacific region.
Some of the services that the bank would be able to offer include the following:
- Short term working capital facilities
- Medium term investment capital finance
- Trade finance services including letters of credit operations, issuance of bank guarantees, etc. and
- Treasury products and services with particular emphasis on foreign exchange and interest rate risk management
Credit Derivatives
The bank has been dealing in credit derivatives as a risk protection seller on corporate names since early 2001 on structures such as credit default swaps, stripped callable asset swaps, credit spread options and callable/puttable asset swaps.
Singapore Dollar Bonds
The bank is very supportive of the local monetary authority’s push to develop the Singapore dollar bond market and has the capacity to underwrite bond issues by foreign issuers in the Singapore market.
Types of
Corporate Finance
- Export Credit
- French and other MNCs
- Credit Derivatives
- Singapore Dollar Bonds
