Trade Finance: find new customers across the UK - and beyond
Trade Finance can support the deal whether you work with UK or with overseas businesses.
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Affordable
- Supports every stage of trade
- International funding available
- Expert support from experienced lenders
- Individual arrangements to suit your business
Reduce risk
- Reduce business risks
- Support business growth
- Funding secured on individual deals
- Funding can be available rapidly
support cashflow
- Guarantees payments for suppliers
- Supports long international delivery times
- Avoid capital demands
- Supports cashflow
If your business buys and sells goods, you will be unable to grow and develop if you only choose to work with those businesses you already know and trust.
But can you afford to take a chance that a new customer will pay – and will pay promptly?
Trade Finance could provide the solution, by ensuring that you will receive the funds you need - whether you are dealing with UK or overseas businesses.
Trade Finance covers a range of solutions to bridge the cash flow gap between paying suppliers and receiving payment from customers. Instead of needing you to fund your sale - which can mean a serious drain on your working capital - Trade Finance will pay your suppliers for the goods you buy until you make the sale.
Fulfil big orders to grow your business
If you need to fund sales yourself, you can often be faced with an order that is simply too large for your business to fund. Trade Finance can provide all the funds you need, whatever the size of your commitment. You can have the funds you need to complete the deal and pay local and overseas suppliers. You simply pay back the lender when your sale is completed.
If you have a single, large deal to finance, or multiple smaller arrangements to fund, Trade Finance can help. It can provide working capital to support your entire trade cycle, from initial order to customer payment, enabling your business, not just to fulfil existing orders, but to forge new relationships with customers and suppliers around the world.
How does it work?
Often businesses wish to buy goods from suppliers for resale but don’t have sufficient working capital or supplier credit terms to do so. Trade Finance allows businesses to buy, receive and sell goods before payment is made.
Once you have a Trade Finance arrangement in place, it can provide the funds you need, based on your orders and contracts.
It helps by guaranteeing payment to suppliers before goods are in transit and making payment when items are dispatched. It is particularly important if you are doing business overseas, when long transport times can mean costly delays in delivery and in receiving payments.
Suppliers can be paid on the same day goods are shipped, and funding is available until you receive end-customer payment.
Avoid the risk
Trade Finance can even be arranged to transfer the risks of delayed, or disputed payments, or even non-payments from you and your business to the lender.
It means you can afford to take a risk with a new supplier or customer. It means you can grow your business, and develop relationships with suppliers due to payment guarantees. It can also help you negotiate early payment discounts with suppliers.
Supporting international deals
Overseas suppliers can be paid in their currency of choice, making your business more attractive to them. They can also be paid quickly, helping make it easier for them to accept orders and easier for you to negotiate early payment discounts.
Trade Finance can also provide ongoing funding for you, until the final customer payment is received, supporting the end-to-end transaction process.
REAL EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE CAN DO...
Help arrange a funding for a small craft-based business to begin exporting to Europe
Find the most competitive funding arrangement for a lighting company ready to pioneer African markets
Find finance to allow an electronics company to buy in components from around the world
Source funding to allow a games manufacturer to begin exporting
Set up finance for an English heritage clothing brand to export to Japan
Financial solutions from Rangewell
If you are starting out doing business in global markets, it’s good to have expert help.
At Rangewell, we can use our Trade Finance expertise to support your business – and ensure that you have the financial solutions you need. We can help find the most appropriate lenders for the funds you need, who can provide expertise and support, and local knowledge of overseas markets. We can also help with other solutions such as Purchase Order Finance.
If you are ready to take your business further, we can help.
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Our goal is very simple - to help businesses find the right type of finance as quickly, transparently and painlessly as possible.
Find FundingHelping you build your profits
Improve your cashflow
Avoiding the delay between outlay and payment helps you explore new markets and cope with the lag in payments.Powering your growth
Being able to work in new markets, with new suppliers and new customers can help you grow your business.A solution tailored for your sector
Some business sectors require specialised funding. If you deal with high-cost or regulated products, you may need a solution tailored around them.Bad debt protection
Some trade finance providers can include protection against bad debt as part of their services - you will not suffer if a customer fails to pay.Credit control
Some providers offer international credit control services, with local skills to help ensure payments in markets around the world.International business
Trade finance can support international business - letting you explore new markets.Download Rangewell’s free and detailed guide to Export Finance

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Understand key exporting terms like documentary collection, exporter bank, prepay for goods shipped, importer to prepay.
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What is an export credit agency?
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Does my business need to be registered in England and Wales to qualify?
Are all lenders authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority?
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My business exports goods, is this type of finance long term?
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