Structured Commodity Finance allows businesses to grow and develop – as many people cannot access the standard asset type finance; in order to do this they must own an asset of a greater value than their lending requirement. Thus, in order to grow one may not only have assets that they can charge. Using a structured finance mechanism allows un-fundable trades and expansionary practices to be viable. This is especially necessary within the commodities world, where volumes are high but margins are typically low.

Within the commodities world, structured commodity finance is key because it is not the case that a simple facility can be used. This is due to the high capital amount which is required and the corresponding trade cycles. Different funders will have preferred structures, leverage ratios, commodities that they are comfortable with and jurisdictions that they are interested in or are preferred.

The aim of structured commodity finance is that there is still security and other forms of risk mitigation in place that allow a funder to feel comfortable, but this just looks and feels different from a more vanilla transaction. If lending is structured correctly, great growth is possible in operating businesses.