Structured Credit Investor: Opening Up

While trade finance assets are of growing interest to investors, due to the attractive risk-return profiles on offer, many non-bank investors are unable to easily access them, especially large institutions like pension funds. A new platform hopes to resolve this issue, however, by processing and securitising the trade finance books of multiple, major banks and so opening up the asset class to a broader investor base.

This is according to Christoph Gugelmann, founder and ceo of Tradeteq, and Nils Behling, also a founder and cfo of Tradeteq, which provides a new electronic trading platform, dubbed The Trade Asset Securitisation Company (TASC). This is designed to provide a straight-forward transformation solution that allows easy access to pools of underlying trade assets, according to specific investor’s risk- return profiles.


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