What we do / Trade and commodity finance

Financing for physical commodity trade, arranged by people who trade.

We structure and arrange facilities for physical commodity traders, working alongside the trading and financing network of our group.

Instruments

  • Pre-export and prepayment finance.
  • Letters of credit and documentary instruments.
  • Borrowing base and structured working capital facilities.
  • Bridge facilities against contracted cargo.

Who it fits

  • Physical traders with contracted flows and identifiable counterparties.
  • Producers and processors selling into export markets.
  • Energy and resource businesses that have outgrown a single bank line.

Facility sizes are set flow by flow. Scope split between CrossHill and the wider group is confirmed at the first conversation, so you always know who carries the mandate.

How it works

  1. 01

    Trade flow review

    One to two weeks

    Counterparties, contracts, cargo and the collateral chain, before any structure is proposed.

  2. 02

    Structure

    Two to three weeks

    Instrument, tenor, security package and pricing, matched to the flow rather than to a template.

  3. 03

    Arrangement

    Three to six weeks

    Introduction to the right financing counterparties inside and outside our group's network.

  4. 04

    Facility in place

    Ongoing

    Documentation, drawdown and reporting rhythm agreed before the season starts.

Talk to the right partner

Trade finance conversations go straight to the partner who runs them. Write to info@crosshillfinancebv.com with the commodity, the route and the counterparties, and you will get a call back, not a form.

Tell us about the company. We will tell you what we would do.

A 45-minute conversation with a partner. No deck required.