An enhanced role for trade finance boutiques

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18 June 2010

Falcon Trade Corporation gathered a select group of clients, speakers and business partners at its first annual trade and corporate finance forum in Dubai to discuss the global economic recovery and the role of specialised lenders.

While we are seeing an uptick in trade flows and positive signs coming out of Asia and Brazil, trade finance remains on uncertain ground. Government support remains vital and many of the large trade banks remain cautious, constrained, or risk averse. It is in this environment that the role of alternative sources of finance comes to the fore – those specialist lenders with an appetite for risk, the ability to create bespoke structures, and the experience and knowledge of local markets.

It is against this backdrop that Falcon Trade Corporation chairman Kamel Alzarka, and CEO Will Nagle, gathered a select group of clients and partners together in Dubai to review the trade finance market and how the recovery is progressing. Indeed it is in many of the markets in which Falcon operates that the recovery is at its most robust, but there is a mixed...

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