Agribusiness is a very significant sector in many developed and emerging markets. SMBC group’s Global Trade Finance Department (GTFD) Commodities teams are active across the product range including sugar, soy, cocoa, coffee and tobacco.

GTFD has specialist commodity teams in Tokyo, London, New York, São Paulo and Singapore and is selectively developing business with a range of traders and producers in the agricultural sector. Aside from offering traditional trade financing techniques to assist our customers in their day to day trading activities GTFD Commodities has assisted its customers with storage finance and has selectively entered into export pre-payment and pre-export finance structures in partnership with customers in Europe, the USA and Latin America.