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Florian Witt
Managing Director, ODDO BHF International Banking
"We actively support our clients in their international activities as a specialty provider of solutions for managing export and trade-related country risks in dynamic regions worldwide. For our correspondent banks, we are their private bankers."
With its long-standing experience in trade and export finance, ODDO BHF International Banking has a wide network of correspondent banks. Particular emphasis is placed on fast-growing emerging and frontier markets.
Advisory services provided by our teams around the world
Our 60 country and product experts work together in international teams. Our team is composed of experts of 15 nationalities mastering 25 different languages.
A country expertise around the world
Whether in Africa, South America, Asia/Southeast Asia or CIS, our experts find the right market for our customers' international trade from a broad portfolio of countries covered. Markets are valued not only by size, but especially by the individual needs of our customers.
Taylor-made solutions for international trade
We offer a wide range of tailor-made solutions for trade and export financing. Our core business includes:
- Securing short and long-term export transactions
- Financing commodities trading in emerging markets, especially non-agricultural commodities
- Export and trade financing, ECA financing, buyer`s credit, letters of credit, guarantees, forfaiting, foreign currency payment transactions, foreign exchange transactions
Dynamic growth of export and trade finance with ODDO BHF
For many years, we have been supporting the German export and trade growth worldwide and we are constantly developing our relationships and expertise in international financial markets.
Our news
Equities remain unmatched over the long term
Three British economists—Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School, and Elroy Dimson from Cambridge University—have embarked on a meticulous endeavour: they have traced 35 stock markets around the world as far back as possible to test a core theoretical question of investment. Are equities truly superior to all other asset classes over the long term?
The moment of truth for public debt
Economic crises leave a legacy of high public debt. Expansion phases should be used as an opportunity by governments to reduce their debt and rebuild some headroom in their public finances. This is easier said than done. Let’s look at what happened after the last two major crises.
The end of the American dream?
We must confess that we have a strategic "bias" in favor of the US market. The past 15 years proves us quite right. Since the end of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis, Europe has outperformed for only 27 months, or just over 2 years. This structural outperformance of the US vs. Europe is mainly explained by a more robust EPS dynamic in the US.