Products and services

Working capital solutions

Increasing your cashflow can help your business fulfil export orders, take on more international contracts and increase turnover.

• General Export Facility: access trade finance facilities up to £25 million, not related to an individual export contract – fulfil multiple export contracts, pay for labour costs and build inventory to boost your exports.
• Export Development Guarantee: access finance for high value facilities, not related to an individual export contract – bid for multiple contracts, invest in product development, and build export capability.
• Export Working Capital Scheme: provides a partial guarantee to your bank in support of working capital facilities linked to specific export contracts.
• Bond Support Scheme: provides a partial guarantee to your bank in support of contract bonds, increasing your bank’s appetite to provide finance.
• Supply Chain Discount Guarantee: support companies in your supply chain by allowing them to discount their invoices and get paid earlier.

Buyer finance solutions

Our financing can help international buyers purchase UK goods and services for their projects.

• • Buyer Credit Facility: provides a guarantee to a bank making a loan to an overseas buyer so that they can purchase goods, services or intangibles sourced from the UK. Loans can be for a period of two years or longer in more than 60 currencies.

• • Standard Buyer Loan Guarantee: covers a loan to an overseas buyer to finance the purchase of capital goods, services or intangibles from a UK supplier generally in the range of £1 million to £30 million.

• • Early Project Services Guarantee: provides a guarantee to a bank making a loan to an international buyer to finance the purchase of design, engineering or technical services from a UK supplier for early project work.

• • Critical Minerals Supply Finance: provides a guarantee to a bank making a loan to an overseas project which has an offtake agreement in place with a UK exporter to purchase and import critical minerals products.

• • Direct Lending Facility: provides a direct loan from UK Export Finance to an overseas buyer to support the purchase of goods, services or intangibles from the UK. Loans can be made for up to £200 million, for a period of two years or longer.

• • Bills and Notes Guarantee: a guarantee to cover payments due under bills of exchange or promissory notes purchased from you by a financial institution.