Export Credit, International Trade Finance Services, and International Taxation

Credit for Exporting and Trade Insurance

• Euler Hermes
Euler Hermes is a company member of the Allianz Group, and a subsidiary of AGF offers services as credit insurance, financing of trade receivables, trade debt collection services, bonding, evaluating trade receivable portfolios...

• Export Insurance Services
Export Insurance Services, Inc. is an insurance brokerage specializing in commercial credit, export credit and political risks insurance for domestic and international trade and finance.

• Export Risk Management, Inc. (ERM)
Independent broker specializing in credit, political risk, and ocean cargo insurance

• EXIM.GOV
List of insurance brokers by Export-Import Bank offering bank coverage in the USA for exporting U.S. goods and services

• The Structured Trade Group
Credit and Political Risk Insurance Brokers - Trade Finance Advisors

Banks & Companies offering finance services for International Trade

• AIG TradeCredit.com
AIG TradeCredit.com is a web-based credit and risk management tool that combines comprehensive credit insurance coverage with real-time access to the credit information on customers. This powerful combination provides an effective way to help manage accounts receivable.

• Atlas Credit - Trade Finance
Company based in UK providing trade finance and factoring services

• Bankers Association for Foreign Trade
The Bankers' Association for Finance and Trade is a financial trade association whose membership represents a broad range of internationally active financial institutions and companies that provide important services to the global financial community.

• Citibank Trade Services
Trade services of the Citibank

• Commercial Finance Association
Commercial Finance Association is the trade group of the asset-based financial services industry, with members as asset-based lending arms of domestic and foreign commercial banks, independent finance companies, factoring organizations and financing subsidiaries of major industrial corporations,.

• FINOVA Commercial Services
FINOVA provides factoring and account receivable management services for business mostly involved in the textile and apparel industries.

• EmdexTrade
EmdexTrade is an international trade financial company offering services ranging from aircraft and ship financing to forfaiting and receivables factoring.

• UPS Capital Business Credit
Former First International Bank specializing in providing credit, trade, and financial solutions for small and medium-sized companies.

• Global Trade Finance Network
Financial Services software company offering a suite of patented products to facilitate international trade also between emerging markets.

• Institute of International Finance
The Institute of International Finance, Inc. (IIF), is a global association of financial institutions including more than 320 members headquartered in more than 60 countries.. Members include most of the world’s largest commercial banks and investment banks, as well as insurance companies and investment management firms. Among the Institute’s Associate members are multinational corporations, trading companies, export credit agencies, and multilateral agencies.

• Marine Money International
Marine Money International is a provider of maritime finance transactional information and maritime company analysis.

• Standard Bank
The bank is a leading participant in structured trade and commodity finance, forfaiting, and project finance. In addition, the bank offers flexible pre and post export financing for commodities and capital goods.

• Trade Bank
The Wells Fargo HSBC Trade Bank (“Trade Bank”) is an equity joint venture between Wells Fargo and the HSBC Group. The only charted bank in U.S.A. dedicated exclusively to international trade. Through the Trade Bank, you have access to about 10,000 offices in 76 countries and territories, and are provided a full range of trade finance solutions by two of the world’s leading financial institutions.

• Standard Bank
Standard Bank London Limited is the focal point for the international merchant banking activities of the Standard Bank Group; the bank offers a range of specialist banking services and promotes trade, investment and business flows with an emerging market focus on a worldwide basis. The bank is a leading participant in trade finance, forfaiting, and project finance.

• PEFCO
Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) assists the financing of U.S. exports through the mobilization of private capital as a supplement to the financing available from commercial banks and other lenders. PEFCO provides a broad range of export finance programs as a direct lender and as a secondary market buyer of export loans originated by lenders (PEFCO does not buy loans directly from exporters).

• NaviTrade Structured Finance
NaviTrade Structured Finance LLC (NaviTrade) is a financial advisory and brokerage firm that specializes in helping U.S. and overseas companies and financial institutions finance international transactions,

• IIG Capital LLC
IIG Capital LLC is dedicated to providing international merchants, traders and processors with alternative forms of short-term financing for qualified trade-related and commercial finance transactions

• The Structured Trade Group
Credit and Political Risk Insurance Brokers - Trade Finance Advisors

Information on International Taxation

• European Union Value Added Tax
Links to information about VAT rates, legislation, and other information.

• EU info
Information about VAT refunds from EU countries

• International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation - IBFD
The IBFD is an organization active in the field of tax research, information and education. Website including resources for tax research and publications about taxation throughout the world.

• TaxSites.com
Web site including links to information about taxes worldwide

• Tax Treaties
List of tax treaties from around the world relevant to non-U.S. citizens who are performing services in the United States.