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- Construction Finance Construction Finance enables you to advance cash against both certified and uncertified applications for payment and invoices raised at completion.
- Foreign Exchange If you need to make international payments, our foreign exchange services can help with immediate trading needs or you can lock in a rate for a future date.
- Asset Finance Our Leasing, hire purchase and re-financing solutions enable you to release cash from existing assets or remove the need for significant upfront investment.
- Marine Finance We provide funding and expertise to the Maritime sector across a wide range of vessel types
- Bad Debt Protection Bad Debt Protection works alongside your invoice finance facility to protect against the impact of customer non-payment and insolvency
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EXPORT FINANCE

Helping you bridge the cash flow gap when selling overseas

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EXPORT FINANCE

Helping you bridge the cash flow gap when selling overseas

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Export Finance can help you bridge the cashflow gap and grow your business overseas

How can Export Finance help?
Export is a great way to expand your business, however, increased shipping times, long payment terms and delayed customer payments are all common challenges exporters face. These challenges put significant pressure on cashflow.

Designed specifically for exporters, our Export Finance solution can bridge the gap between raising an invoice and getting paid and help you better manage relationships with overseas customers.

You will be supported by our specialist Export Finance team, who between them have decades of experience, both working within Bibby Financial Services and supporting businesses who export.

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Key Benefits

Fast

Get cash against the value of your invoices before the buyer has taken delivery of the goods. (Subject to the Incoterms®)

Scalable

Funding is available for international sales for one or several customers in a wide range of overseas markets.

Secure

Protect against the impact of customers not paying with Bad Debt Protection.

You can also use our Foreign Exchange solution to make overseas transactions easier and cost efficient

How does export finance work?

Submit

Invoice your customers

… and upload the details using our secure online portal

Access

Access your funds

…within 24 hours

Collect

Collect payment

Use our credit control team to collect payment on your behalf or retain collection in house

Pay

Get paid the remainder

…minus our pre-agreed fees

Meet the team

Bibby Export Finance is part of Bibby Financial Services, one of the UK’s largest independent SME funders. We’ve been supporting businesses for over 40 years and combine experience with flexibility to tailor suitable solutions for your needs.

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The Export Team

We have been supporting a range of clients to successfully trade overseas with our Export Finance solution for over 15 years. Our specialist team have between them, almost 150 years’ experience of supporting businesses with working capital finance; much of that experience gained through working with businesses who trade internationally.

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Yvonne Anderson

Yvonne Wedel Andersen

Head of Export

Yvonne joined BFS over ten years ago with the remit of supporting growth of our Export Invoice Finance business. She has over 30 years’ industry experience across BFS and other organisations; prior to joining BFS Yvonne was a Regional Director at GMAC Commercial Finance and Head of International Business with Bank of New York.

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Paul Robbins

Paul Robbins

Relationship Manager

Paul has been delivering working capital solutions for businesses involved in International Trade for over 25 years. Paul has worked for two major banks as well as independent providers of cashflow solutions. From trainers to transport, Paul understands the issues and provides workable solutions to enable companies to grow internationally.

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David Preston

David Preston

Relationship Manager

David is based in Yorkshire and has more than 40 years’ experience in banking, Factoring and Invoice Discounting. He has experience at all levels of the client life cycle, and has worked with a wide variety of industries. Outside of work he takes the opportunity to travel widely and also ski and snowboard when the opportunity arises.

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Ian Lyall

Ian Lyall

Relationship Manager

Ian has been in the Invoice Finance industry for almost 40 years, mostly working in client facing roles, working with businesses within a range of sizes and profiles. He joined BFS in 2014 and has been working since then as a relationship manager in the export team. Outside of work, Ian is a trustee of a local charity, and enjoys most sports.

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Sarah Payne

Sarah Payne

Relationship Manager

Sarah has been in the Invoice Finance industry for over 17 years; prior to that she worked in banking. Within Invoice Finance, Sarah spent the first 5 years as a client service manager, in construction and then Export, before taking time out to have a family. She has been a relationship Manager for the past 8 years, supporting a wide profile of clients.

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How we have helped other businesses

We’ve been supporting businesses for over 40 years across a wide range of business sectors…

Industry sector: Film and packaging
supplier
Funding provided: £2.5 million
Type of funding: Export Finance and FX

We provided a £2.5m Export finance facility to a film and packaging company supplying primarily into the food industry, providing them with the working capital needed when working with extended debtor payment terms. They are able to make use of our Foreign exchange solution to pay export suppliers directly from their funding availability. The funding has enabled year on year business growth and their funding limit has been increased to support their growth.

Industry sector: Manufacturing
Funding provided: £1.1 million
Type of funding: Export Finance and FX

The funding facility we provide supports the client in meeting supplier payments, important given their US and Australian debtors have extended payment terms of 90 days. The client uses our foreign exchange services to make supplier payments and converting USD availability to GBP

Industry sector: Manufacturing
Funding provided: £750K
Type of funding: Invoice Finance with
credit control support

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Industry sector: Construction
Funding provided: £50K
Type of funding: Invoice Finance

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Industry sector: Marine & Offshore
Funding provided: £2 million
Type of funding: Invoice Finance

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Industry sector: Construction
Funding provided: £3 million
Type of funding: Invoice and Asset
Finance

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