Export Finance
Export Finance Navigator
Export Finance Navigator is an online tool to help Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are exporting or investing overseas, to understand the export finance options that are available to them.
Export Finance Navigator helps cut through the confusion about how finance fits into the export journey. The tool divides the export journey into six key stages: preparing for export, finding markets, winning contracts, financing production, getting paid and expanding overseas.
At each stage, Export Finance Navigator identifies the export finance challenges a business may face and provides information about solutions to those challenges. As well as outlining the financial tools available from commercial institutions such as banks and insurers, Export Finance Navigator summarises the grants and tax concessions provided by Federal, State and Territory Governments to assist current and potential exporters. The website includes links to the websites of commercial institutions and government organisations for more information.
Navigator is an independent source of information and is sponsored by Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), the Australian Government's export credit agency..
World Risk Developments newsletter
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) is the Australian Government's export credit agency. World Risk Developments newsletter is EFIC's free monthly update on developments in the world economy and the ever-changing commercial risks to be managed when doing business in international export markets.
Written by EFIC's economics team, World Risk Developments is candid, informative and wide-ranging. It is important reading for businesses which are currently, or considering, exporting or expanding their operations overseas. View the latest edition and subscribe here.
EFIC's economists also publish country profiles, which provide in-depth information on the risks of doing business in a particular export destination.
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) provides finance and insurance solutions to help Australian exporters overcome the financial barriers they face when growing their business overseas.
As the Australian Government's export credit agency, we help successful businesses to win finance and protect export trade or overseas investments where their bank is unable to provide all the support they need. We work directly with exporters or with their banks to provide loans, guarantees, bonds and insurance products which can be tailored to meet the needs of both large and small exporters.
EFIC is uniquely placed to do this; we use over 50 years of export finance and industry expertise, contacts at financial institutions around the globe, the strength of our AAA credit rating and an entrepreneurial business approach to make export deals happen.
We practise responsible lending and uphold social and environmental best practice in the transactions we support.
If you’re an Australian business with a viable opportunity to build Australia's export markets, but are prevented from moving forward by financial obstacles, please contact EFIC on 1800 093 724 or visit www.efic.gov.au.
EFIC Global Readiness index
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) is the Australian Government’s export credit agency. It provides financial and insurance solutions to help Australian businesses exporting and investing overseas to overcome financial barriers.
Australian businesses continue to enjoy unprecedented opportunities to expand onto the global stage. Since 2008, EFIC has conducted an annual Global Readiness index; a wide-ranging study of the current destinations for Australian exporters and offshore investors, their motivations and the barriers they face in an increasingly globalised world. Each year this unique Australian survey provides Australian business with a comprehensive picture of the opportunities, and challenges, when participating in today's global supply chains.
The survey was endorsed by Simon Crean, whilst he was Minister for Trade, and is produced in partnership with State Government, trade and industry organisations across Australia.
Participants in the Global Readiness index receive a customised benchmark report for their business, which allows them to compare key aspects of their export and globalisation strategies with the business trends of their industry peers and Australian businesses overall. In addition, the survey results for each year are available on EFIC’s website.