Notice. FG Capital Advisors is a trade and capital advisory firm with a focus on carbon, commodities, and structured credit. The firm provides financial modelling, analytical support, and sponsor side advice around commodity finance, trade facilities, and related capital structures. FG Capital Advisors is not a bank, lender, credit insurer, broker dealer, or retail investment adviser and does not issue loans, guarantees, or insurance products. Any facility, guarantee, derivative, or investment is provided by regulated counterparties under their own licences and documentation. All potential transactions are subject to KYC and AML checks, sanctions screening, credit and investment committee decisions, independent legal and tax advice on the client side, and formal agreements with those regulated entities.
Commodity Trade Finance Services
Commodity trading is a working capital business disguised as a logistics business. The margin may be tight, but the funding need is heavy. When prices spike, freight rises, or buyers extend terms, even strong operators can feel the squeeze.
FG Capital Advisors supports traders, producers, and distributors with commodity trade finance structures built around real flows, verifiable documentation, and lender-grade collateral controls. The focus is to turn your physical cycle of purchase, storage, transport, and sale into a credit story that passes committee and still works on the ground.
Request Commodity Finance ReviewWhat Our Commodity Trade Finance Services Cover
Our advisory scope covers bank and private credit structures across energy products, metals, agri commodities, and softs. We focus on facilities that are anchored on identifiable collateral, clear trade documentation, and predictable repayment sources.
- Structured working capital linked to purchase contracts, sales contracts, and shipment schedules.
- Inventory-backed frameworks for stock held in tanks, terminals, silos, warehouses, or bonded facilities.
- Receivables-led financing tied to approved buyers, documented payment terms, and collection history.
- Borrowing base design combining inventory and receivables with eligibility and concentration controls.
- Trade instrument support where letters of credit, standby letters of credit, or guarantees form part of a funded or risk-participated structure.
The aim is not to sell a generic product. The aim is to shape a facility that matches your corridor, counterparties, storage reality, and risk profile.
Core Structures We Advise On
Commodity trade finance is rarely one instrument. It is often a stack of tools, designed to align funding with the physical cycle and control points that lenders trust.
- Pre-import and pre-export finance linked to specific shipments and repayment from receivables or offtake proceeds.
- Inventory and warehouse finance with independent inspection, title clarity, and disciplined release mechanics.
- Borrowing base revolvers applying advance rates, eligibility rules, and reporting cadence that can scale with volumes.
- Receivables purchase and discounting where buyer quality and documentary standards support lower-risk funding.
- Prepayment and offtake-backed structures blending commodity contracts, performance frameworks, and security packages suited to the product and jurisdiction.
We also support pricing narratives and covenant philosophy so lenders can see how downside risk is contained without freezing your trading engine.
Eligible Clients And Transaction Profiles
We are best placed to support operating platforms and sponsors with repeatable flows and a real need for structured capital. One-off or purely speculative trades are not a fit for serious committee-led funding.
- Traders with recurring import or export corridors, documented counterparties, and established logistics partners.
- Producers and processors seeking pre-export or offtake-linked working capital.
- Distributors holding inventory on balance sheet and needing revolving capacity tied to stock turns.
- Integrated groups combining sourcing, processing, storage, and sales into a controllable collateral story.
- Sponsor-backed acquisitions that require a post-close commodity finance upgrade to support scale.
Typical target facilities range from single digit millions to the low hundreds of millions of dollars, with staged growth based on reporting discipline and performance.
How FG Capital Advisors Executes The Advisory Mandate
Our work connects operations, documentation, and risk controls into a cohesive financing narrative. Lenders do not fund ambition. They fund proven mechanics with verifiable data.
- Mapping of your supply chain, contract set, Incoterms, and critical control points across purchase, storage, and sale.
- Review of working capital drivers by product, route, and counterparty, including seasonality and stress testing.
- Facility architecture including borrowing base logic, eligibility criteria, advance rates, reserves, and reporting requirements.
- Security and control design aligned with storage realities, inspection regimes, collateral management, and release procedures.
- Information pack and model preparation that is suitable for bank and private credit underwriting conversations, working through regulated partners where execution is involved.
You should expect direct feedback on what is fundable, what is weak, and what must be tightened before lender outreach.
Information Required For A Term Sheet-Ready Review
A credible commodity trade finance review needs clear inputs. The faster we can verify flows and controls, the faster you can move from interest to structured terms.
- Recent financial statements and management accounts for the relevant operating entities.
- Trade flow history by product, corridor, volume, margin, and counterparty, including typical payment terms.
- Current contracts or representative templates for purchase, sales, and offtake arrangements.
- Storage and logistics details including locations, operators, inspection practices, and title or control framework.
- Summary of existing facilities, security, covenants, utilisation, and any constraints you want to replace or increase.
If data is partial, we can still outline likely structures and lender expectations. Final sizing, pricing, and advance rates remain indicative until the supporting file is complete.
If you are planning to scale volumes, expand sourcing regions, add storage assets, or tighten your buyer book, your financing framework must keep up. The right structure can unlock capacity without turning your balance sheet into the only story.
Share a concise overview of your products, corridors, counterparties, storage set-up, and current facilities. We will assess which commodity trade finance structures are realistic, what documentation upgrades are required, and how a lender-grade package should be positioned.
Submit Commodity Finance EnquiryDisclosure. FG Capital Advisors provides financial modelling, analytical, and advisory services. The firm does not originate, offer, or sell securities, loans, deposits, guarantees, or insurance products and does not accept client money. Any commodity finance facility, trade line, guarantee, derivative, or investment product referenced on this page is carried out by regulated entities under their own licences, terms, and documentation. Commodity finance and related structures involve credit, performance, operational, legal, market, and policy risk. Nothing on this page is a recommendation or a solicitation to enter into any transaction or to buy or sell any financial product. Any engagement with FG Capital Advisors is subject to internal approval, conflict checks, KYC and AML checks and sanctions screening where required, and the terms of a formal engagement letter.
