You import, refine and distribute. Internationally too?
Then we are the right banking partner for you. Our Corporates Germany division enjoys active and passive corporate client business with clients who generate an annual turnover of € 100 million or more. You receive all forms of modern corporate financing advice and delivery, closely linked with capital market expertise, professional processing of international payment transactions including cash management and international documentary business.
Fast turnaround times and volatile seasons?
Our proximity to the port of Hamburg shaped our first customer relationships. Traditionally, it was importers of goods and raw materials who sought us out. With our strong advisory skills in the bilateral and syndicated lending business for complex financing, we now have leading expertise in the areas of working capital and factoring. Various intelligent platforms are used in the partnership approach.
As many products in international trade are settled in foreign currencies, we also provide expert support for your currency transactions and offer the appropriate hedging instruments. You benefit from our aspiration not only to meet your immediate needs, but also to create real added value for you with our services. Be it with regard to current rating requirements or the optimization of interest, liquidity and risk management.
Our focus
We focus on private credit markets and work bilaterally with companies or in bank clubs. We also participate in transactions, often in the primary market, which are arranged by other credit institutions. In addition, we offer a range of products (funded/unfunded), including bridge financing, loans, guarantees, investment and acquisition financing and other specialised solutions.
We arrange and participate in financing transactions where financing tranches are senior and equal in priority. These financings are often collateralized.
We arrange syndicated financing or participate in syndicated loans from other banks.
We have been supporting all forms of simple or structured import business for decades.
We also offer customised financing solutions with an entrepreneurial perspective. These include receivables financing and structured loans.
National customers with worldwide validity
We count larger medium-sized companies, including owner-managed companies from all over Germany, among our regular clientele. Here you will find some lighthouse projects from various asset classes:
The automated processing of a large number of individual contracts for mobile leasing goods (bikes & e-bikes) is at the heart of this customer relationship.
Financing E-bikes EUR 60 millionThe refinancing of international trade receivables in US dollars for industrial chemicals used for agriculture, pharmaceuticals and animal feed
Factoring of trade receivables USD 20 million.The focus here is on bilateral leasing asset financing for vehicles / cars with a variable financing structure.
Purchase financing for leased vehicles EUR 70 million.Merca Leasing GmbH & Co KG has been an established partner to the manufacturing industry since 1989 for machines, modules and mobile assets.
Bilateral financing EUR 40 million.Industry knowledge and expertise
The specialized teams at the Hamburg and Berlin locations orchestrate all of the bank’s necessary products and services for you. Vertical sector expertise is just as important to us as incorporating general macroeconomic findings into our “clarity as a service” promise.
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Personal advice
Forward-looking, analytical and empathetic certainly describes our relationship managers most clearly.
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Club deals or bilateral
In the syndicated loan business, we have an extensive network of other banks and investors to act as lead arrangers.
Customer orientation and a focus on what makes the difference for you – that’s how we put “clarity is capital” into practice for our customers every day.
Michael Rothehüser, Head of Corporate Clients
SmartFact: convert outstanding receivables into cash
Many medium-sized trading, production and service companies can run into liquidity bottlenecks if they make advance deliveries or produce or process goods – but are then not remunerated at an appropriate level or within a reasonable period of time. Instead, sell your receivables and save yourself a bridging loan. With “SmartFact”, you can use our platform to post either individual receivables or pools of receivables with a volume of ten million euros or US dollars or more. Browser-based – convenient – secure. Read more about this: BdV Behrens Group
Refinancing of leasing portfolios
Would you like to protect your balance sheet or optimize your financing? In the area of refinancing leasing portfolios with a ticket size of between 10 and 50 million euros, we offer you bilateral leasing agreements. With a term of up to 72 months, e.g. eBikes and other leased assets can be financed. Read more about this: AGL Activ Services
Request refinance for leasing now
Michael Rothehüser
Head of Corporate Banking in GermanyJens Thiele
Head of Project Finance & CorporatesThe services we can provide you
We are equally concerned with our customers’ assets and liabilities, as both sides are important for an active business relationship. Our high level of international expertise with our small European network in London, Luxembourg and Piraeus reflects international standards as well as national characteristics.
We manage interest rate and currency risks for you using tailor-made products. We will work with you to find the optimum solution. This allows you to hedge risks, improve your company’s liquidity and strengthen your balance sheet.
At the heart of your business payment transaction flows is an HCOB account with customized, international and muli-currency card solutions that together facilitate complex payment flows.
High-performance payment transactions are all about being able to execute transactions for tens of thousands of your customers simultaneously in various currencies, with fast processes in eBanking and modern subscription procedures via app.
Stay tuned …
Do you have general questions about our range of services or would you like to inquire about financing directly?
Then feel free to contact us:
20th Structured Finance
November 27-28, 2024 I ICS, Messe Stuttgart
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