References

The following institutions are using our products:



Atlantic Forfaitierungs AG with domicile in Zurich/Switzerland belongs tothe German Oetker group, internationally active in the food and beverage industry, hotels, banking, insurance and shipping.Since the early sixties, Atlantic has been engaged in export and trade finance, particularly in forfaiting claims evidenced by Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Letters of Credit or similar instruments.As one of the first players in the forfaiting market, Atlantic can offer its experience to exporter, partners and investors in trade paper. Atlantic will consider taking risks worldwide, with emphasis on medium-term transactions. Firm commitments for stand-by periods until disbursement at fixed rates are possible for many countries.Atlantic invites inquiries from banks and exporters, and will be pleased to furnish a country list with rate indications, or quote on specific transactions.


Helaba (Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale)
is a universal German bank, active in the national and international markets. At international levels, Helaba maintains branch offices and subsidiaries in the financial centres London, New York, Luxemburg, Zurich, Amsterdam and Dublin. Moreover it has representative offices in Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong, Madrid and Warsaw. On both the domestic and international level Helaba cooperates with large corporations, international investors and high net-worth private investors. In this respect Helaba concentrates on the business areas Financing (in which Trade Financing with its products Buyer's credits, Bank-to-Bank credits; Export-/Project-/Asset-Financing with ECA-Coverage (Multi Sourcing); Forfaiting; (Silent) Confirmation of Letters of Credit; Letters of Guarantee; Structured Trade Finance is one sector), Real Estate Business, Asset Management, Treasury and Sales, Transactions and Services and Special Business (e.g. trustee business). Helaba enjoys for many years a AAA-Rating (from all three major rating agencies) for its unsecured long-term debts. This certificate of excellent creditworthiness secures access to favourable refinancing means for the Bank, thereby also benefiting its customers.


SFC Swiss Forfaiting Company Ltd.
, Zurich (Switzerland)  is based in the financial center of Zurich. It's core activity is the financing of commercial transactions. SFC considers all types of trade financing support activity. SFC releases quotes on letters of credit, bills of exchange, promissory notes, letters of guarantees, etc... guaranteed by an acceptable bank in the importer's country and to be discounted without recourse. SFC is available to give all information about the required tenor and guaranteeing bank for the respective country and the necessary documentation to be presented for financing a transaction. SFC Swiss Forfaiting Company is active in primary as well as secondary market.

 

London Forfaiting Company was established in 1984 to specialize in the arrangement and provision of forfaiting and other trade related finance products. In 2003 the Company was acquired by First International Merchant Bank with the objective of developing FIMBank into an international player in the Trade Finance and Forfaiting Business.


Marfin Factors & Forfaiters was established in January 2007 as a fully-owned subsidiary of Marfin Egnatia Bank. Primary activities involve domestic and international factoring services (import and export factoring) along with Forfaiting transactions in both primary and secondary markets, evidenced by commercial drafts such as Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange and Letters of Credit, basically to emerging markets.  MFF is a full member of Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Forfaiting Association (IFA). MFF is headquartered in Athens, with a rep office in Thessaloniki, and since 2009 has been operating in Serbia through a full-service Branch in Belgrade. MFF’s management envisions the growth of the company to a regional player by expanding its presence in other key markets in SE Europe. In recent years, MFF has been consistently achieving strong financial results despite a challenging economic environment particularly in Greece and the Eurozone. MFF has a solid operation with an annual factored turnover in excess of EUR 900 million in 2011, operating profits of EUR in excess of 5.5 million EUR, profits before tax of 2.1 m EUR, and total outstanding assets of circa EUR 200 million.  MFF is currently ranked as 16th best factoring firm in the world (out of 270 factoring firms) in international factoring, based on FCI statistics.

 

Organisations

We are a member of the following organisations:




VEFI is the oldest forfaiting association of the world.
The goals are - to improve the general recognition of the Swiss forfaiting market - to share knowledge and experience among our members - to introduce exporters, importers and financial institutions to the benefits of forfaiting.