The decision to start buying or selling overseas may seem like a big one, but growing your business in other countries can be just as easy as growing your business at home.
Import & Export
Our short-term funding through trade finance solutions and documentary support can help you manage your risks through the trade cycle and ease cash flow.

Payment solutions
We make it easy for you to do business with your overseas customers or suppliers by helping you make or receive payments in Sterling, Euros, US Dollars and 1301 other currencies.

Foreign Exchange
Our Foreign Exchange products are designed to help you manage risks and opportunities when trading with overseas customers and suppliers.

Currency Accounts
If you regularly hold, pay or receive foreign currencies, our currency accounts provide flexibility to help you maximize international trade opportunities.

Only available for businesses with an annual business turnover above £3m.

Managing international-trade risk
Trading overseas is a good way for your business to reach more customers and grow your business, but there may be risks. We have solutions to help your business trade safely and manage the key risks in international trade.

What are the risks?
When exporting to overseas customers, they may not meet their contractual obligations.

They may also not pay for the goods and services you’ve sold to them.

There is also a chance they may not pay the correct amount or pay by the agreed date. Our team of Financial Risk Managers can help you identify, quantify and manage these risks to help protect your business.

How we can help
Strong support team – an experienced team to help you confidently reach new markets successfully.
Personal support – our Relationship Managers and dedicated UK Trade Services team will make sure you get the right support for your business.
International Trade Portal – the latest market reports, for the overseas locations you’re trading in, are available on our International Trade Portal . This market insight can help you find the right trading partners and find out more about local trading requirements.
Range of solutions – we have solutions to help support your international business goals by managing some of the key financial risks like securing payments with new overseas trading partners.
Our solutions
Documentary collections
Allows you to control when the goods and shipping documents are released to your buyer.
Letters of credit
Guarantees payment by the buyer’s bank when you present the correct documents.