GEO
Group

The Group

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

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What the group does

Own

The group holds and manages operating companies: vessels, shipyards and distribution networks.

Finance

It arranges and provides capital: trade finance for cross-border flows, merchant and investment banking for companies, fund of funds for investors.

Operate

It trades energy and food commodities and runs cargo and logistics operations, on its own account and for counterparties.

Independence from lenders

GEO has no ties to any single lender or institution. In trade finance the group works on the client's side of the transaction: it structures the facility, selects the funder for that specific trade and manages the application through to drawdown.

Across its domains of activity the same principle holds. Each company is run for its own counterparties, and the group's capital follows the trade rather than the other way round.

In practice the group's own capital goes in alongside its partners' in the transactions it arranges, and its fund of funds exposure is built manager by manager, with the same diligence it applies to its own trades.

Through EXIM banks and a correspondent banking network built on SWIFT RMA relationships, letters of credit, guarantees and payments are arranged across borders with the funder that fits each trade.

Trade Finance

Capital. Trade. Legacy.

Governance and standards

Capital and risk: are decided at group level; each domain of activity runs its own operations and answers for its own counterparties.
Know your counterparty: applies to every trade, charter and investment before the group commits capital or tonnage.
Legal entity: GEO Decentralized Investment Fund TFC