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Structured Trade Finance or Structured Commodity Finance (SCF) is a term used to encompass several different methods of finance for producers and traders of goods and commodities, including pre-export finance and prepayment finance.
Pre-export finance (PXF) is an established structure used to provide finance to producers of goods and commodities. PXF structures were borne out of the fact that, traditionally, many producers of goods and commodities, particularly in emerging markets, were not considered to be sufficiently bankable for the purposes of obtaining finance by more orthodox means, such as conventional corporate loans against the balance sheet of the borrower.
In a classic PXF facility, funds will be advanced by a lender or syndicate of lenders to producers to assist them in meeting either their working capital needs (for example, to cover the purchase of raw materials and costs associated with processing, storage and transport) or their capital investment needs (for example, investment in plant and machinery and other elements
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