HSBC launches strategy for institutional investment in trade finance assets
HSBC Asset Management has launched a private credit strategy allowing investors to invest in a range of trade finance assets, with access to the bank’s existing deal flow.
The strategy is aimed at institutional investors in Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia and the Middle East, and involves investing in short-term trade finance and working capital assets such as trade loans, receivables and payables finance, and other documentary trade transactions.
Called Trade and Working Capital Solutions, it is managed by HSBC Asset Management’s Capital Solutions unit and has been developed in collaboration with the bank’s Global Trade Solutions business.
The bank says it is expected to provide stable returns to investors…
