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Soft Commodities Trader
Due to increased sales, a soft commodity trader required a receivables purchase facility for one of their large customers - purchased from Africa and sold to the US.
Metals Trader
Purchasing commodities from Africa, the US, and Europe and selling to Europe, a metals trader required a receivables finance facility for a book of their receivables/customers.
Energy Trading Group
An energy group, selling mainly into Europe, desired a receivables purchase facility to discount names, where they had increased sales and concentration.
Clothing company
Rather than waiting 90 days until payment was made, the company wanted to pay suppliers on the day that the title to goods transferred to them, meaning it could expand its range of suppliers and receive supplier discounts.
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Alastair Hughes
Head of Division, Markets DirectorateAlastair Hughes
Head of Division, Markets Directorate
Bank of EnglandAlastair Hughes is the Head of Division at the Bank of England’s Markets Directorate, responsible for work on risk-free rate transition.
Prior to this, he spent most of his career as a supervisor of globally systemically important banks (GSIBs), most recently as a Head of Division in the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) covering the London operations of North American firms such as JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America.
He spent several years as a member of the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) Senior Supervisor Group, a forum for senior representatives of supervisory authorities to engage in dialogue on risk management practices, governance, and other issues concerning complex, globally-active financial institutions.
