Overcoming global trade challenges with tailor- made financing
XF Infra Ltd is a non-bank lender specializing in export financing, insured by the Swiss Export Credit Agency (“SERV”). The company is backed by private entrepreneurs with extensive experience in infrastructure, SMEs and export financing. Managed by BPD International’s team, XF Infra stands as one of the most experienced lenders in arranging and structuring export credit financing on the Swiss market.
XF Infra supports SMEs and large corporations in their cross-border activities, offering tailored financing solutions and advisory services for a wide range of projects with a flexible and solution-minded approach.
Your export financing partner
XF Infra proposes its services for small transactions as well as for large infrastructure projects and this in many different sectors. Clients benefit from BPD’s partnerships and network abroad.
XF Infra puts a focus on the gap left by commercial banks, which often prioritize larger transactions, and also covers other market segments such as structured and project finance transactions.
As a small and agile organization, XF Infra effectively serves the SMEs market segment through small individual financing. When arranging large infrastructure projects XF Infra provides the SMEs the possibility to access the infra market as sub-suppliers .
Tailored financing for various industries
XF Infra provides financing solutions in many sectors such as:
Transportation
- Logistic
- Rollingstock passenger & freight
- Public Transport
- Aircraft
- Maritime
- Ropeway
Energy
- Renewable
- Replacement of Diesel and Coal Power
- Hydro Power Plant
- Off-Grid Solution
- Rural Electrification
Agriculture
& Food
- Fertiliser plant
- Seeds & Crop protection
- Farming Equipment
- Food Processing plant
- Agriculture products
Water, Waste & Recycling
- Treatment plant
- Distribution
- Purification
- Desludging system
- Waste to Energy
- Waste management plant
- Sorting plant
- Recycling plant
Industrial Production
- Textile plant
- Steel plant
- Cement plant
- Chemical plant
Infrastructure
- Airport
- Railway
- Train Station
- Bridge
- Road
- Harbour
- Tunnel
Equipment & Service
- Machinery
- Automation
- Packaging
- Engineering
- Maintenance
- Spare parts
...and more
- Hospital
- Medical equipment
- Pharmaceutical products
- Laboratory
- Communication
- Amusement Industry
- Construction products
toolsThe various financing products proposed to clients are based on the three fundamental pillars of loan schemes insured by SERV and often subject to OECD rules stipulated under the Arrangement.
Supplier Credit
Under the supplier credit scheme the buyer and the exporter sign a commercial contract with deferred payment terms. The exporter is acting as lender and can refinance himself through the sale of receivables insured by SERV.
This type of credit can be finalized quickly, making it ideal for small contracts.
However, the exporter must ensure that the buyer's payment obligation is fully enforceable and transferable to facilitate the sale of such claims.
Buyer Credit
In a buyer’s credit case, the financing for an export good or service is provided, in principle, directly to the importer acting as borrower. The credit extended by XF Infra to the customer of the Swiss exporter is typically covering up to 85% of the eligible export delivery value. Associated up-front financing costs, if covered by SERV, can also be financed.
The borrower’s payment obligation under the buyer’s credit agreement is independent of the supply contract.
XF Infra may provide various forms of buyer credits in order to respond as much as possible to the needs of the borrower.
Working Capital Facility
The exporter may finance part of its costs in relation to a specific export contract, prior delivery / invoicing, without relying on existing banking lines.
SERV will issue insurance in favor of XF Infra with a cover rate of 80% or up to 95% in specific cases.
Repayment of the loan is directly tied to payments under the export contract.
The working capital facility can be used in combination with the Buyer and Supplier credit.
Expertise in diverse financing products
XF Infra Ltd offers a range of financing solutions covered by SERV, both short- and long-term (beyond 10 years), all of which are tied to an eligible export transaction. These include:
- Discounting of receivables
- Straightforward loans to private corporations
- Working capital facilities
- Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), Hybrid Annuities Model
- Project financing (including BOT models)
- Structured loans
- Asset-based financing
- Leasing
- Sovereign loans
- Islamic financing
- Loan to Banks
- … and more
Advisory services for safer and successful projects
At any time, XF's clients (exporters, importers, developers, investors, banks among others) can benefit from the advisory support of the BPD team. This support includes:
- Identifying and mitigating risks associated with a specific transaction, such as:
- Pre-delivery risks
- Non-payment risks
- Non-performance risks
- Unfair calling risks
- Currency risks
- Interest rate risks
- Structuring commercial contracts
- Arranging bonding lines
- Preparing applications for export credit agency financing
- Identifying service providers in the buyer's country
- Identifying EPC contractor and/or key sub-suppliers
- … and more
Our expertise
BPD team members acting as structurer, lead arranger and lender (at Calyon-CAI, Credit Suisse AG and Xport Finance AG – CHF 4.6bn arranged volume)
For further details about our selected reference projects, please review the separate list.
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XF Infra is managed by the BPD team. The team is comprised presently as of six experts, four located in Switzerland, one in Kenya and one in Turkey. The Latam market is covered in partnership with Rhône Finance in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Collectively, the team has more than 100 years of experience in sectors such as banking, trading, advisory, procurement, project management, portfolio management and business development. In addition to the finance sector the team includes a procurement and management expert in the food processing Industry and agriculture.
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