At Gulf African Bank, we listen to you and strive to meet your needs. For companies with a large import requirements, we are happy to offer a structured trade financing facility for these needs. Structured Trade Finance is a term used to describe various financing techniques or even restructuring techniques available at GAB, also invariably called `Collateral Management'. Generally, a structure is applied in order to mitigate or transfer unacceptable risks from one party to another. Collateral managed lending can take any of the following forms - Stock financing, Pre-shipment financing or Post Import Financing. The advantages to customers include - ease of arrangement, enhanced opportunity for increased trading, savings on debenture /legal charge costs and above everything else, the assets /debenture limits can be re-allocated to other capital financing.