Crédit Agricole Suisse, your preferred partner in Transactional Commodity Finance

Crédit Agricole Suisse is active in three main areas:

• energy (oil, petroleum by-products and coal)
• soft commodities
• metals

As a client, you have access to the expertise of international trade specialists, aided by a team of documentary credit experts.

A wide range of commodity financing solutions are available to you, whether for raw material inputs or ready-to-export goods.

Short-term trade financing arrangements (30 to 120 days) are provided mainly in the form of signed undertakings (letters of credit and guarantees), accompanied by upstream or downstream cash facilities. Our financing solutions also cover seasonal financing, tolling, refining and packaging prior to distribution.

Based in Geneva, the Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank's international Transactional Commodity Financing centre is powered by a global network with offices in Paris, New York, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong and Singapore



A comprehensive product line-up:

• documentary credits / guarantees and sureties
• short-term lines of credit, in dollars, euros and many other currencies
• interest rate and foreign exchange hedging solutions
• short-term structured financing, such as seasonal credit, prepayment and tolling
• promotion and financing of hedging products through Newedge (futures) and Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank Derivatives (structured products)
• banking risk confirmation and discount
• credit discount on well-established counterparties and country risk (drawee risk and purchase undertaking)