About Us
We offer bespoke financing and risk mitigation solutions
We provide bespoke trade finance solutions to enable our customers access working capital facilities from our participating panel of banks and other alternative trade financiers, thus ensuring the most competitive and affordable financing to suit specific needs of their business.
Our TFA Money unit offers debtor financing through factoring and invoice discounting to assist our clients optimize their working capital and cash flow cycle.
About Trade Finance Africa
Through our Tradefin Africa unit we assist businesses wanting to grow their market reach in the wider African market within the context of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) through our tailored import and export advisory and trade finance arranging capability in South Africa and across the continent.
We are committed to excellence in supporting our clients to identify relevant trade related risks, work on mitigation solutions, undertake due diligence on prospective trading partners, arrange suitable financing solutions and help access working capital facilities. We thus provide end to end working capital solutioins that give our clients peace of mind and space to focus on growing their business.
We work on a partnership basis with clients, ensuring that we fully understand their business needs and growth strategies, as well as how best to optimize their financing resources to ensure success.
Trade Finance Africa’s value proposition
We know our financial services and lending market landscape very well having worked in the financial sectors in South Africa and beyond for over 30 years. We have identified lack of information about the banking sector requirements and documentation on one side and lack of appreciation and knowledge within the banking sector of the dynamics of the SME sector on the other as a major barrier to financing sustainable growth of our SMEs. The woes of the SME sector have been compounded by the adverse impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
We are driven by the conviction that the SME sector holds much promise for economic prosperity, employment and poverty reduction in an increasingly complex and yet often failing ecomomy struggling to recover from the ravages of COVID-19. We aim to establish ourselves as trusted partners in enabling our clients instant access to working capital through the utilization of invoice factoring to reduce their cash flow cycles, as well as intermediating between them and financiers in accessing trade finance facilities.
We are distinguished by our values of excellence, cutomer-centricity and partnership approach which allow us to emmerse ourselves in the businesses of our customers to fully appreciate the dynamics thereof so that we can provide well informed cash optimization solutions. This sustainable partnership approach with our customer is what sets us apart.
We have formed a strong value adding partnership with brokers who provide advise and insurance intermediary services to the businesses in South Africa with a strong focus on risk management and risk transfer solutions. This partnership allows us to offer the full spectrum of working capital and risk solutions for our customers such as trade credit insurance. Our partnership with ECIC further enhances our offerings through ECA finance angle.
Mission
We partner with clients and financiers to ensure seamless flow of knowledge and expertise in order to provide our customers with appropriate trade finance and working capital facilities at competitive and affordable terms.
Vission
To be the prominent trade finance enabler in Africa. We are positioned as the go-to partner for getting our customers’ businesses to take off and prosper through our continually evolving funding and risk solutions, specifically tailored to the customer needs. We are your partner for growth.