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    GEO Decentralized
    Investment Fund TFC
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    The Architecture of Wealth & The Excellence in Asset Management

    GEO is a private investment group. It owns, finances and operates across five domains of activity: capital, trade finance, shipping, logistics and commodities.

    Our domains of activity Contact the group

    Our five domains of activity

    1. Capital

      • Fund of funds
      • Investment banking and venture capital
      • Merchant banking
      • Sovereign bond issuance
      • EU funding
      • World Bank teams (past work)

    2. Trade Finance

      • Lending facilities
      • Letters of credit
      • Export factoring
      • Forfaiting
      • Export credits
      • Insurance and guarantees
      • EXIM banks & RMA correspondent banking network

    3. Maritime

      • International shipping
      • Cargo operations
      • Shipyards ownership & management

    4. Logistics & Distribution

      • Air freight
      • Ocean freight
      • Rail freight
      • Road freight
      • Distribution

    5. Commodities

      • Energy commodities
      • Food commodities

    At the forefront of global trade

    The future of money.

    Trade finance is the financing of trade across a company's life cycle: the instruments that move goods, services and commodities from seller to buyer. Letters of credit, export finance and credit agencies, receivables and invoice finance, and bank guarantees all sit under the one name, and most companies combine several of them.

    3%
    of global trade is trade finance, worth some $3tn a year
    80–90%
    of global trade relies on trade and supply chain finance
    $10tn
    estimated value of trade and supply chain finance each year

    Why it matters

    Trade finance, also called supply chain and export finance, drives economic development and keeps credit moving through supply chains. After the 2008 crisis export markets shrank by 40–50%. Appetite for risk fell, banks cut their loan books, and small and medium-sized companies were hit hardest.

    Who benefits

    Developing economies, governments and, above all, small and medium-sized enterprises. SMEs account for around 99% of businesses, half of employment and some 30% of private-sector revenue in the UK. Many supply larger groups and need finance to take on bigger contracts, import goods and create jobs.

    How we help with trade finance

    Independent and impartial

    GEO works only for its clients. With no ties to any single lender, it offers the structure that fits the business, however complex, never an off-the-shelf product that limits its growth.

    Its specialists are agnostic of product type. From vanilla trade finance facilities and export finance to complex cross-border commodity trade, the team weighs every option to grow a client's trade flows, around the clock.

    Clients tend to treat the group as their CFO or finance director rather than a broker. Dedicated account managers place each company with the right structure quickly, working with most funders in most jurisdictions.

    About the group

    Excellence in Capital. Power in Trade.

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