WHEREVER YOUR BUSINESS TAKES YOU, WE WILL STAND BESIDE YOU
The complexities of trade require simple, powerful solutions. As a leading trade finance bank with over 150 years of experience, Santander understands international trade.
Through our global presence, deep knowledge of local markets and award-winning products, our Trade Finance team will help you to manage your trade flows, optimize your working capital and strengthen the relationship with your buyers and suppliers.
Our solutions for you
Whether you are looking to finance your imports, exports or inventories, we can provide loans that are structured around your trade flows in order to give you competitive financing that matches your business cycle. Typical products are Import and Export Finance, Prepayments, Commodity Finance, Inventory Finance and Aircraft Finance.
Whether you are selling products, providing services or building roads, we can help you with solutions to secure your international contracts as well as mitigating credit and commercial risks. With our specialized global offering and efficient digital service, Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (Santander CIB) can provide you with Documentary Credits (one of the most secure payment methods in international trade that offers working capital optimization alternatives) and Guarantees that support technical obligations, such as advanced payments, performance and bids.
We offer a wide range of solutions to take receivables off your balance sheet: from discounting a single receivable to a large-scale solution for a portfolio of debtors. Each year, we purchase EUR 75bn of receivables in multiple currencies from more than 9.000 buyers across all continents in a broad range of industries.
Santander CIB has provided Payables Finance solutions to a wide variety of clients worldwide under its Confirming brand for more than 25 years. Confirming’s successful business model allows you to improve your working capital and financial ratios and strengthen your relationship with your suppliers by providing them with access to competitive financing.
- You will work with a leading trade finance bank with a global presence, deep knowledge of local markets and state of-the-art technology.
- You can draw on dedicated product, sales and support teams that will provide you with a best-in-class service.
- You will access award-winning products adapted to your specific needs.
- We also have local and global capabilities to cover client requests related to Sustainable Trade and Trade Finance Solutions.