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Case

Reference no. 9-210-021

Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control

Authors: C Fritz Foley (Harvard Business School); Michael Shih-Ta Chen (Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Research Center, Hong Kong); Matthew Johnson (Harvard Business School); Linnea Meyer (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 2009

Version: 5 October 2009

Length: 23 pages

Data source: Field research

Topics: Supply chain management; Capital structure; Financing; Financial strategy; Risk management; Finance; International business

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Abstract

What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd, a global commodities trading company based in Hong Kong, must raise capital to support the firm's working capital and investment needs. In evaluating by which means Elman should raise capital, students must consider issues relating to the payment terms and financing arrangements used in world trade, as well as the risk management and operating decisions of a trade intermediary.

Locations:

Asia; Hong Kong

Size:

USD23,497,142,000 (FY2007), 10,000 employees

Other setting(s):

2008