The ascent of independent trade financiers

The Falcon Group, an independent specialist trade services provider, has been expanding in Asia on the back of what regional manager Davy Kurniadi identifies as the gap left by global banks in the emerging markets.

“Falcon’s ambition is to capture this gap that we call the boom in emerging market trade’ which may not be substantially catered for by the global banks,” Kurniadi explained. “We see the gap that the global banks and western trade financiers are not able to capture in Asia.”

Earlier this month, the firm appointed Danu Prihantara Nurrachman and Daniel Kandinata as business development managers based in the Jakarta office to take advantage of trade between emerging markets. According...