Philippe Steiner Email & Phone Number

Mr. Philippe Steiner > 25 years Commodity, Credit & Trade Finance practice in Geneva/Switzerland Expert in banking economy with Swiss federal diploma Certified documentary credit specialist by IFS Institute, UK (ICC supported certification) Philippe started his career in 1995 at Banque BNP Paribas in Geneva as a Documentary Credit Specialist, where he worked till end 2000. He then moved on to assume the position of Senior Commodity Trade Finance Relationship Manager in various well-known commodity specialized banking institutions, such as Credit Suisse, ING and BNP Paribas, until end 2009.From 2010, Philippe began providing advisory services to Commodity Trading firms, Private Investors and Trade Finance banks.In 2013, he set-up Commodity Trade Invest (« CTI »), (http://www.ctinvest.ch) a company based in Geneva and dedicated to this business. CTI is a duly registered and regulated financial intermediary in Switzerland, affiliated to an organization of asset manager (SOFIT) supervised by Swiss Financial Markets authority of regulation FINMA and then being able to administrate professionally both trade finance credit facilities or commodity assets investments for account of any family office, UHNW individual, Investments fund or banking institution interested to start, manage or develop ahead any investments portfolio in this field as well as to set-up any branch in Geneva dedicated to this activity.From April 2018 to early May 2020, CTI set-up, managed a branch for account of and Philippe headed the credit and trade finance business division of an asset backed securities vehicle structuring credit facilities to, packaging trade assets into and placing notes for account of active commodity players with Investor(s), in the European Capital Markets, through the Luxembourg stock exchange. In late 2013, with the commodity field increasing needs for specific educational program, Philippe launched as well in parallel a Trade Finance Coaching activity (http://wwww.tfc-ge.com), to provide specific coaching services as well as tailored training programs or client on-boarding processes for both active commodity companies and major banking institutions within the industry such as Credit Suisse, as for example.Philippe participates in the training program for the Certificate in the financing of the international trade proposed by the "Institut Supérieur de Formation Bancaire (ISFB - https://www.isfb.ch), supported by the Swiss commodity trading field association STSA (Swiss Shipping and Trading Association)