SoHo Is APAC’s Leading Merchant Bank With Deep Roots In Sustainability and FinTech

SoHo Advisors PTE LTD (APAC)

SoHo Advisors is APAC’s leading enterprise infrastructure merchant bank ; with its roots in FinTech. SoHo’s deep expertise as operators gives it unparalleled access in the region for transactions and co-investments via its principal investment team. Consequently, the firm counts many of the region’s largest public and private companies as clients.

Due to our Founder’s deep tie to Washington DC, the firm has excellent relationships with the US Government specifically including The Commerce Department, The State Department, The Treasury Department, and The Department of Defense. SoHo works with the IFC, DFC, and EXIM Bank on regional projects in South East Asia.

We offer clients a full range of investment banking services which include:

• Mergers & acquisitions

• Advisory services — growth strategies

• Going private transactions

• Restructurings

• Recapitalizations

• Strategic partnerships and joint ventures

• Fairness opinions

Each member of SoHo’s corporate advisory team has an average of 20+ years of investment banking and deep domain expertise in their subject verticals. The firm is headquartered in Singapore and regulated by The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the world’s leading regulatory body for FinTech and Sustainability innovation.

What is an Export Credit Agency

An Export Credit Agency is a government department that is in place to help the exporters located in their country. The agency does this by providing guarantees to funders for a particular project. Because the funder now has the formal support of the agency, the transaction becomes lower risk and more banks are interested in the transaction. With this lower risk and more competition, the interest rate that is charged for the loan is less than without the guarantee from the agency. To cover the cost of the risk and to pay for the operational cost of the agency, a fee is charged at the time of the first funding of the transaction. The fee depends on the risks being taken by the agency and key factors include the term, the credit strength of the business and the country where the exports are going. This fee can be borrowed and repaid throughout the term of the loan.

By supporting the exporters in their own country, Export Credit Agencies help to maintain jobs and the economy grows as more exports can be achieved. In the vast majority of cases, the fees collected by the agencies outweigh the operational costs so they not only support the exporters but it costs nothing to the taxpayers. Today, climae and sustainabilityHistorically, aviation has been a big beneficiary of export credit financing.