- Business
- DF Deutsche Forfait AG (DFTK.DE) operates as a specialist in foreign trade financing, focusing on the purchase of receivables from imports and exports, forfaiting, and related services for exporters, importers, banks, and investors primarily in the Middle East, Near East, and Eastern Europe. The company provides core products and services including the collection of foreign trade receivables and promissory notes; hedging of merchandise deliveries in emerging and developing markets; project financing and factoring; structured financing solutions such as abstract payment obligations; processing of payment transactions and debt collection; and marketing and consulting in trade finance, with a particular emphasis on the food and beverages, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries. DF Deutsche Forfait AG serves corporate clients seeking liquidity and risk transfer, financial institutions requiring asset purchase and sale options, and investors such as pension funds accessing alternative investments in trade receivables. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Gruenwald, Germany, with previous operations based in Cologne, the company maintains subsidiaries Deutsche Forfait GmbH in Cologne, DF Deutsche Forfait s.r.o., and DF Deutsche Forfait Middle East s.r.o. in Prague, Czech Republic, alongside strategic partnerships in the Middle East. In recent developments, DF Deutsche Forfait AG has expanded into M&A activities since 2024, acquiring the Berlin craft beer brewery Vagabund in July 2024 to pursue synergies in the Food & Beverage sector; it also approved the takeover of a loan agreement involving its main shareholder in a related transaction, while enhancing project financing capabilities in renewable energies and water solutions.