PERSPECTIVES & PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE
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Practical perspectives for better financial conversations. Explore the questions behind your next decision.
Before the shipment: a trade-finance document checklist
Start with the commercial transaction, then organise the information a bank may need. The right file is specific to the goods, parties and proposed facility.
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Working-capital readiness starts with the cash cycle
A clear funding conversation connects the amount requested with inventory, receivables, supplier terms and an identifiable source of repayment.
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Financial structuring: a clearer route from requirement to institution
Finance broking connects an applicant’s requirement with an institution’s assessment. Start with the purpose, repayment plan, costs and responsibilities.
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Trade finance
Connect import and export requirements with an informed funding, payment-security and documentary process.
Business finance
Bring working capital, productive assets and expansion needs to financial institutions with a coherent commercial case.
Wealth management
Connect goals, investments and changing life stages through a structured approach to long-term wealth management.
Insurance broking
A proposed insurance-broking scope from risk assessment and cover comparison to placement, renewals and claims assistance.
Financial structuring
Structure personal and business borrowing through a broking role between applicants and financial institutions.
KEY TERMS, EXPLAINED
A short glossary.
Plain definitions of the terms that come up most in finance, trade and insurance conversations.
- Letter of credit (LC)
- A bank’s undertaking to pay a seller when documents that comply with the credit’s terms are presented. Often governed by ICC rules such as UCP 600.
- Bank guarantee (BG)
- A bank’s promise to pay a beneficiary if its customer fails to meet a stated obligation, such as a performance or advance-payment commitment.
- Standby letter of credit (SBLC)
- A credit that the beneficiary draws on only if the applicant defaults. It works as a payment backstop rather than the primary means of payment.
- Working capital
- The cash a business needs to fund inventory and customer credit while it waits to be paid, net of the credit its suppliers allow.
- Cash conversion cycle
- Inventory days plus receivable days minus payable days. A longer cycle ties up more cash in day-to-day operations.
- Debt-service coverage ratio (DSCR)
- Cash available for debt service divided by the principal and interest due in the same period. Lenders use it to judge repayment capacity.
- EMI
- Equated monthly instalment: the fixed monthly payment that repays a reducing-balance loan, covering both interest and principal.
- Loan against property (LAP)
- A secured loan raised against residential or commercial property that the borrower owns, used for personal or business purposes.
- NBFC
- Non-banking financial company: a lender registered with the Reserve Bank of India that provides credit without being a bank.
- SIP
- Systematic investment plan: investing a fixed amount at regular intervals, commonly into mutual funds.
- Insurance broker
- An intermediary that acts for the client: assessing risk, approaching insurers, comparing terms and supporting placement, renewals and claims. In India, brokers are registered with IRDAI.
- Sanction letter
- A lender’s written offer setting out the approved amount, rate, tenure, security and conditions that must be met before disbursement.
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