Client-led services

We provide bespoke financing solutions and have developed a broad range of products and services, including: Letters of credit; Standby letters of credit; collections; guarantees; stock finance against warehouse receipts (CDA/WA Certificates of Deposit, Bono de Prenda) or SMA/CMA; insured receivable finance solutions; and advance payment with performance insurance cover to secure supply of sugar.

Our global market advisory team analyses trends in global sugar and related markets, including trade flows, local and global market dynamics, and price. Our clients include producers and consumers who are seeking to mitigate risk, and traders and investors who are seeking to assume risk. Our advisory business operates within a regulated environment and is authorised by the UK’s FCA.

Our Corporate Finance team benefits from direct access to Czarnikow’s market intelligence and global network and focuses on: mergers and acquisitions and JVs; debt raising and restructuring; cane biomass co-generation; and strategic consultancy. The team enjoys long-standing relationships with key players across global supply chains – including financial institutions, banks, producers, refineries, consumers and energy companies. Credentials are available on request.

Vive is a continuous improvement sustainability programme that measures, monitors and benchmarks a participant’s performance against global sustainability standards along the entire sugar supply chain. This improves the understanding of sustainability risks and mitigation strategies and fosters change through bespoke plans, at both the farm and factory level.

Through our regulated entities, we have dedicated futures executing teams who are active in the world’s major trading exchanges for sugar futures. Offering clients the ability to hedge price risk, we act for producers, consumers and professional investors, always focusing on delivering the best solution for our clients’ needs - whilst. We have a range of sophisticated products, we will never deliver an over-complicated product to our clients when a simple solution works better.

Through our extensive global sugar network, relationships and range of added-value services, we are ideally positioned to manage the financial and logistical complexities required by our clients in buying, selling and moving products. Our portfolio includes unrefined and refined sugar, liquid sugar, ethanol, assorted ingredients, sweeteners and packaging.

Our supply chain management services include stocking and repackaging physical product, and organising warehousing and logistical requirements. We take title to goods and agree to sell future production on our clients’ behalf (‘off-taking’). We develop bespoke distribution and supply strategies, which may include investment in small-scale or ‘synthetic’ assets (e.g. silos, warehouses) to support our clients.

We use our global network and sourcing expertise to aggregate, develop and manage the most sustainable and cost effective movements of ingredients for producers, processors and industrial buyers.