Trade Finance
Trade Finance for South African SMEs
Flexible funding for your supply chain
Scale your business with cash-freeing trade finance. Geddes offers structured trade finance facilities individually tailored to suit your business’s unique requirements. We help free up your cash flow by financing the purchase of your goods upfront, so you won’t be out of pocket for supplier payments. This allows you to confidently fulfill local or international orders and only repay us once you have received payment from your customers.

Initial facilities of up to R2m
Credit terms up to 90 days
Secured financial capital

Services we offer
How we can help you
We pay your local and international suppliers:
- Upfront supplier payments to enable your business to make bulk purchases and negotiate discounts.
- Payments of purchase orders that your company may be struggling to paty.
We can assist with making the stressful process of physical shipping easier
- Processing of marine insurance and claims.
- Optimal and effective route management.
- Accurate landed cost analysis to include duties, tariffs and VAT.
- Assurance of paperwork compliance on your behalf with customs, port health and other authorities.
Consult us to identify, assess and control your trade finance: legal, strategic and security risks
- Foreign currency hedging.
- Risk management and mitigation.
- Expertise in how to structure your international trade opportunities.
Utilise our vast network of trustworthy buyers and suppliers
- Correspondence with international and local off-takers if your buyer falls through.
- Exploit our relationships with buyers and suppliers in a variety of sectors, including mining, construction, agricultural products, retail, and much more.
We support the following transactions
Payment of stock
Forwarding and clearing costs
Transportation and insurance costs
Inventory finance
Purchase order finance
Customs VAT and duties payable
Import finance

Trade Finance
How does it work?
01
Apply online
Fill in an online application covering your credibility to receive trade finance services.
02
Meet our team
If you meet our criteria, we’ll set up a call to answer your questions and ask a couple of questions of our own.
03
Final checks
You’ll do some quick paperwork and send us your supporting documents while we complete your due diligence checklist.