The term "forfaiting" comes from the French expression "?forfait" and means the surrendering of certain goods.

Forfaiting is the purchase without any recourse to the exporter or any subsequent bona fide holder, of receivables arising from an underlying export of goods and services. This service is provided by specialist banks such as Standard Chartered and other finance and forfaiting houses.

Standard Charterd's Forfaiting team forms part of Structured Export Finance and operates from London, New York and Singapore.



We can help you in : Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Americas

For more information, please contact:

• Roger Middleditch
  Head of Forfaiting, London

• Rodney Ballard
  Forfaiting, Singapore

• Mark Ampuero
  Forfaiting, New York