In recent years, the structured trade finance sector in Africa has seen the entry of various alternative lenders, while banks have been reducing their exposure to the sector. This forum provided insight into this relatively new offering covering the forces behind the reduction in bank participation in the industry, the key drivers of alternative finance’s entry into the market, how alternative structured trade finance works alongside other facilities, the typical structures used and the key considerations for transactions.
The Banking sector perspective will give an overview of current offering to the sector, bank view on the sector (areas of potential growth and weak spots) and typical challenges clients have dealing with the bank and ways to overcome them.