Structured Solutions
Structured Capital Markets
The structured capital markets group focuses on developing innovative and sophisticated products and solutions to allow its clients to achieve their commercial objectives by either increasing their investment returns or lowering their funding costs.
By its nature the team focuses on more complex financing transactions, both on and off balance sheet, which require a solution driven approach and execution expertise, in particular given the customised nature of the legal arrangements.
The products and solutions can be achieved by either using a bespoke or generic approach and use all financing techniques, asset classes and cross border regulatory, accounting and tax knowledge as well as complex security arrangements.
Accordingly, the group is able to draw on experts from the Bank's project financing, structured debt, equity, hybrid and derivative resources to assist both our clients and other units within the bank to gain a competitive advantage.
Derivative Solutions
The mission of Derivative Solutions is to add value to Standard Bank Group by originating and delivering value-added derivative solutions and structured products to address the needs of the bank's clients. DSG's activities are highly client-centric and solution focused.
The Derivative Solutions comprise of individuals that use high level derivative knowledge and structuring skills across all the market variables, including credit, interest rates, foreign exchange, equity, inflation and commodities (if combined with other variables). Solutions and products are structured to meet our clients' appetite for risk, market view, financing needs or risk management needs, taking into account any external or internal regulatory, legal, tax or accounting constraints. Solutions are structured for both the asset and the liability side of the balance sheet.
The team works closely with Trading to focus on developing value added products and solutions, and in partnership with Sales to identify new opportunities and to ensure the delivery of the optimal product and solution to our clients. Additionally, the team works across divisions, with Primary Markets, Principal Trading, Banking Division, Resource Banking and Asset Management, to provide value added solutions to their clients and activities. The team is global and closely coordinates its activities across regions (Latin America, CEEMEA and Asia).
Asset Finance
The asset finance team is the leading South African arranger and financier of debt for cross border and local asset based financing, it has arranged and financed long term debt in excess of USD 8.8 billion.
The team has significant expertise across various asset classes, in particular aircraft, yellow metal equipment and manufacturing plant.
In addition to finance leases, the team is also prepared to take an equity view in assets by, e.g., entering into off balance sheet (for our clients) operating leases, held under investment structures to optimise financial returns and structured with a view to either hold the assets on balance sheet for the Bank and/or syndicate either the equity and/or the debt to other parties, working closely with our primary markets and syndication teams.