We offer a variety of trade services designed to meet a range of trade financing requirements so that your company can seize new business opportunities whenever they arise. Customers benefit from our streamlined processes designed to provide best in class service levels and reduce the hassles associated with trade transactions.
KCB facilitates local and cross-border trading through operations and liquidity financing, as well as mitigating risks inherent in trade.
Choose from our range of Trade finance solutions based on your unique needs;
Letters of Credit help reduce the various risks that come with local and international trade. We support you by guaranteeing payment to your supplier if specified terms are met.
Import Letters of Credit
Export Letters of Credit
This short-term offer is primarily offered to exporters. We help finance your products and base your repayments on your export proceeds or funds owed by your buyers.
Sometimes your payments to your suppliers fall due before you are paid by your customers. With the Post-Import Finance Facility, KCB will bridge the financing gap and give you flexibility with additional time on your credit.
When you receive an order from a known buyer but are unable to finance it from your own resources, KCB will offer you LPO Financing to enable you fulfil the order.
Disbursement takes a maximum period of 90 days depending on the terms of the LPO
When you sign a business contract and need a guarantor, KCB Bank will step in on your behalf to reduce the risk of non-payment or non-performance. KCB Guarantees are accepted both locally and internationally.
Don’t stall your project due to any unreceived payments. Our working capital loan facility allows you to stay liquid pending any receipts or collection of payment for work already invoiced. This facility offers the benefit of managing working capital and cash flow requirements for the contractor such as wages, salaries and other supplier payments pending collections.
This credit facility is extended to producers of products who do not have access to Balance Sheet Lending. The producer obtains liquidity by leveraging his inventories well before the goods are sold into the market.
We enable the importation and exportation of goods by handling the documents presented in the required order. This could be cash against documents, acceptance documents and/or the banks guarantee.
This is cross-border trade using non-standard security where the intention is to get repaid by the liquidation of a flow of commodities.
This credit is extended to a seller who obtains financing and receives funds immediately after providing a sales document, which is sent to the buyer’s bank on behalf of the seller.
