Finance Solutions
Developments in new markets continue to open up opportunities and growth potential for international trade.
International trade is complex, involves risks and can be difficult when dealing with new business partners. Arena GmbH provides solutions to manage the risks associated with import and export trade. Tailored to your requirements these include financial supply chain management, risk finance for structured export and commodity trade finance. We also offer advice on risk reduction, the negotiation of shipment, payment terms and contracting issues.
Getting access to the right global expertise and experience will make it easier for you to develop successful partnerships with overseas suppliers and deliver value for your business. We can help you to expand globally.
Trade Finance
When trading across international borders, the “financing gap” between purchasing and realising a profit from sales can be lengthy. Known as a trade cycle, these gaps create large risks for suppliers requiring payment, and for importers requiring proof of dispatch and finance before paying the suppliers.
Arena GmbH provides financial products to manage these cycles and undertake new or expanded international trade ventures. The benefits include:
- enables firms with cashflow restrictions caused by trade cycles to invest in profitable ventures without requiring the sale of equity or provision of extensive capital securities.
- products are tailored to requirements, offering flexible lines of credit and repayment terms to help importers manage their finance gaps.
- offers specific tools (such as letters of credit) to facilitate international trade transactions, which enhance trust and security.
Supply Chain Finance
As global supply chains stretch across the globe with multinational buyers on one side and a diverse group of suppliers in numerous countries on the other, corporations are under pressure to unlock the working capital trapped in their supply chains.
Supply chain finance is a set of solutions that optimizes cash flow by allowing businesses to lengthen their payment terms to their suppliers while providing the option for their large and SME suppliers to get paid early. This results in a win-win situation for the buyer and supplier. The buyer optimizes working capital, and the supplier generates additional operating cash flow, thus minimizing risk across the supply chain. Our supply chain finance (including supplier credit) can:
- optimise cash flow to reduce financing costs and improve business efficiency
- improve payment terms to create faster access to owed money for suppliers and extend the payment period for the buyer
- be a source of funds in difficult emerging markets