Trade Finance
Loan in Johannesburg

Providing Trade Finance and flexible funding solutions to businesses in South Africa.

We offer our clients the ability to grow their importing businesses by providing them with facilities to make direct payments to international suppliers of product and raw materials. We offer our clients the ability to execute purchase orders by providing them with the finance required to import products needed to fulfil the purchase orders. We offer our clients the ability to optimise cash flow by providing them with a financing structure whereby we import and warehouse products on their behalf until they are required by their businesses. These products can then be made available when required on credit. Instead we explore each opportunity on its merits and design tailored, short term funding solutions that enable our clients to take advantage of worthy trade related business opportunities. We have activated facilities in a matter of days where the necessary information has been made available. We exist to provide short term working capital and financial backing to entrepreneurs involved in trading and manufacturing businesses. We have successfully been designing trade finance solutions for our clients for more than 20 years. The time spent getting to know our clients-both new and old- provides us with insights into the multiple facets of the individuals involved, their businesses and their visions. These insights provide us with the context that allows us to swiftly engineer trade finance structures that enable these entrepreneurs to seize trading opportunities that come their way. Tamar Sack After completing her legal articles at Bowman Gilfillan in 2004, Tammy remained with the firm in their corporate finance and general commercial team as an associate for a further year. Tammy joined the Chester Finance Group in 2005 and manages a portfolio of clients, as well as overseeing legal matters. Seymour Grawitzky Seymour is a qualified chartered account with a wide range of experience in venture capital and private equity initiatives. He has furthermore been involved in providing corporate finance advisory services. Seymour has experience in starting up new ventures, running established operations and in turnaround management. Jake has recently returned to Chester Finance to concentrate on the development of the trade finance business. She has many years of experience in auditing, accounting, tax, banking, credit management, compliance and computing. Ursula has been with Chester Finance since 2004 and is an integral part of the credit team through her involvement in the analysis of financial information received. Ursula manages a portfolio of existing clients and is actively involved in the acquisition of new business. Cullinan is a South African company listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange and is one of the leading companies within the Tourism and Leisure sector. Cullinan's entrepreneurial culture and business ethos are closely aligned with Chester's. Cullinan has committed to provide Chester with all resources necessary to enhance Chester's ability to provide its clients with the trading capital required to enable them to achieve their full growth potential. Chester's operating model will remain the same and there will be continuity in all of its systems, processes, management team and back office staff. Speak to us about funding all your trade related business opportunities.