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Logo Design Brief

We need a logo for the company which was started in 2013. We are a global consultancy and details can be had from our website www.inter-linkages.com

Interlinkages Consultancy Limited (ICL) is a privately held Limited Liability company in Hong Kong with 3 employees.

It was started in 2013 with the belief that with increased interdependence and complexity of global markets, coupled with reduced risk appetite of global financial institutions, innovative financing solutions that capitalize on the Interlinkages between Suppliers, Buyers, Banks, Sovereigns and International institutions will become important to fill the market gaps. ‘Finance following the Transaction ‘rather than ‘ Balance sheet based lending’ will be the new order of the day.

With increased banking regulations and higher risk capital allocations by Financial Institutions, Banks will become selective about assets and other financial intermediaries like insurance agencies and reinsurers will become more active with varied products to support the industries in Emerging Markets. This process will create alternate sources of liquidity especially for Regional banks and Small and Medium Enterprises.

Although alternate sources of liquidity have emerged in the last few years, these have not been fully utilized due to information asymmetries in the market and restricted purposes for accessing these funds. Flows to emerging market economies have risen with risk-adjusted interest rate differential but the supply of quality emerging market assets is not keeping up with the new demand.

ICL was set up to capitalize on synergies arising from trade and investment linkages between countries and knowledge of non-traditional pools of liquidity to provide consultancy services to Emerging country banks, Corporates and SMEs. The Consultancy also provides bank neutral views to Corporates and SMEs in Asian emerging markets and helps in improving financial structure and efficient use of funds. Our endeavor is to provide a distinct bottom line advantage to our clients. We plan to invest actively in developing technology platform for better distribution, disintermediation, efficient process flow and cost effective delivery of solutions.

The company has been approved on October 28th, 2014 to lend to corporates as per the Money Lending License. Post the Licensing, Interlinkages Consultancy Limited can lend to corporates prudentially. ICL has been in existence for close to 2 years now as a consultancy and the graduation up the capital curve is primarily to optimize the solutions in an efficient manner especially on the trade side of it.

Two main Revenue generating activities are envisaged for ICL:
a) Consultancy: The consultancy has been focused on cross border foreign currency products for both trade and term sides. It does two sets of activities:

a. Internationalization of Banking relationship: Although corporates doing cross border trade have multi geography holding and operations on the procurement and sales side, the banking relationships of these corporates is still limited to either large home country banks or very limited number of Global MNC banks. We bring the regional, local banks in North Asia, Middle East, Europe and US with distribution and origination ability. The funding ECA’s are part of our plain vanilla internationalization initiative. Deals concluded by Interlinkages Consultancy Limited till date:

i. ICL was exclusively mandated for internationalization of banking relationship of a USD 1.43 bn group in Hong Kong. ICL brought in local banks for trade finance of USD 25.0 mn at Dubai and USD 10.0 mn at New York for group. Trade finance limits were Letters of Credit, Trust Receipt finance and Receivables finance of the company.

ii. An Indian Corporate rated AA- was looking for Project Finance in Morocco. ICL was exclusively mandated for USD 8.345 mn term loan against long-term project off-take and Corporate Guarantee. The term financing was arranged through an ECA.

iii. An Indian Software Company rated A+ was looking at efficient counter guarantee issuance from Middle Eastern Bank for an Abu Dhabi Municipality Project. A cost effective solution was provided to the corporate by working with a local bank at Abu Dhabi and a performance guarantee of USD 2.6 mn was issued which was 10% of the overall project value.

iv. A Singapore based trading company was looking for Back-to-Back LC limits. The same was arranged from a Regional Bank in Singapore for USD 6.0 mn.

b. Structured Short and Mid Term Trade: We are working on the structure trade product with on/part/off balance sheet recourse structures especially for corporates involving receivables, payables and inventory. The typical credit enhancement used is private insurance or bank wraps to enhance the rating for increasing liquidity of the paper:

i. An Indian Company rated A- was setting up a subsidiary in Hong Kong. USD 8.0 mn lines of payables financing along with LC limits was arranged in Hong Kong.

ii. USD 80.0 mn of pre-export was structured as an Indian Bank obligation paper for a rig building company was sanctioned with a Kuwaiti bank with tenor 3.5 years export finance.

b) Non-Banking Financial Institution Business: The focus will be continuation of consultancy focus on supply chain finance, export credit agencies and bank line business and progress into efficient capital structures to provide lending. We are looking at opportunities to link capital market/regional bank appetites with Asian Exporters. The broader idea is the mitigation of a lower rated exporter’s performance risk and shifting the payment risk to a higher rated importer/structure wrap to reduce the cost of financing for exporters. As componentization and imports are integral part of global trade and given our historical strength with Export Credit Agencies and Small and Medium Enterprises, we are now focusing on short and mid-tem trade. This particular application is in continuation to our strategy of identifying credit worthy market gaps in the supply chains. Due to our understanding of trade products and global liquidity pools, distribution is an integral part of the business.
ICL will be investing into creating new technology platforms that reduces the information asymmetries in terms of not only origination but also distribution as well to provide greater access to Small and Medium Enterprises across the world. the logo will be used in the software platforms as well.

Target Market(s)

Banks, Hedge Funds, Export Credit Agencies, Private Equity Players and Corporates- all Global counterparts

Industry/Entity Type

It Company

Logo Text

Interlinkages or ICL

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Requirements

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• Global or International, Linkages

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• Efficiency