news - FMO enhances access to finance for SME's in South Africa

FMO has closed a ZAR 100mln (equiv. EUR 7.6mln) 4 year senior LCY loan with Rand Trust Financiers (RTF) in South Africa. RTF is part of the Transaction Capital Group, who is also the main shareholder in one of our other longstanding clients in South Africa, SA Taxi.

RTF is a specialist debtor finance and debtor administration business with a 100% focus on SME’s in South Africa. RTF takes over and collects the full debtor books of its clients and finances/discounts the eligible quality debtor invoices. The full book of discounted and non-discounted invoices serves as collateral for RTF. Thanks to the highly collateralized nature of the business and very close follow-up on and monitoring of clients, RTF is able to finance companies which do not generally have access to regular banks. The transaction with RTF hence leads to access to finance for these SME’s, making it an excellent match with the purpose of the MASSIF fund from which the transaction is financed.

RTF has set out an ambitious growth strategy. Our new loan enables the company to pursue this strategy, being ensured of a more diversified and stable funder base. Next to our role of financier, we are also engaging with RTF to provide Capacity Development from MASSIF in the field of product innovation and/or risk management, which will further enhance our value proposition to the company.