Bankable structures across sovereign and corporate trade flows in emerging markets. Documentary credit, structured receivables, ECA-backed buyer and supplier credits, and the credit-insurance wraps that bring corporate-risk paper to a tier-one funder.
Structured trade finance for Africa and emerging markets: documentary credit, sovereign-backed receivables financing, and ECA-backed buyer credit documented to the standard a tier-one funder will lend against.
Letters of credit, standby letters of credit and deferred-payment LCs. Confirmation and structuring across UK, European and Asian confirming banks. Particular focus on EU and Gulf-confirmed paper for African and emerging-market obligors.
Sovereign-backed and corporate receivables, with or without recourse. The firm structures the insurance wrap and the senior risk-taker chain that bring corporate-credit-risk paper to bank-investable standard — documented to the form a tier-one funder will lend against.
Pre-export finance, prepayment, borrowing-base and tolling structures for commodity flows. ECA-backed buyer and supplier credits across UKEF, Bpifrance, Sace, Hermes, EXIM and Asian ECAs. Tied and untied credit lines structured against verifiable end-buyer and end-supplier paper.
Does Hen Street provide capital from its own balance sheet?
The firm arranges and intermediates; it does not lend from a proprietary balance sheet. Credit is provided by tier-one banks, ECAs, insurance markets, and specialist funds. The firm's role is to structure the instrument so it is bankable to those funders.
Which African and emerging-market jurisdictions are in scope?
Core regional coverage spans Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Mandates that involve sanctioned individuals, entities or jurisdictions are not accepted. FATF grey-list jurisdictions are handled case by case with enhanced diligence.
Does the firm support ESG-linked trade finance?
Yes. Where the underlying trade qualifies under recognised sustainability frameworks (ICC PSP, Loan Market Association SLL principles, ECA-side ESG rules), the firm structures the programme accordingly. ESG framing must be substantiated, not marketing.
