The PFX Trade Desk

You will have heard about arbitrage trading and Private Placement Programs (PPP).  PPP’s deliver exceptional returns and a growing cohort of project principals are now turning to PPP's to finance their projects. Today’s arbitrage trading has evolved out of the ‘money creation’ process first introduced by John Maynard Keynes at the iconic Bretton Woods Conference in 1944.  (See ‘Eight Decades of History’ below).

You will also have heard the returns on PPP’s described as ‘fanciful’ or even ‘impossible’ by any normal investment criteria.  Which would be true, except that PPP’s are not an investment.  They are the Placement of Private capital into an arbitrage trading Program.   Returns are treated as profit and not a loan.  Nothing has to be repaid. 

Arbitrage has evolved into the high-volume and simultaneous purchase and sale of assets across many markets and classes to exploit the differences in their prices. Unique to arbitrage, the sale is booked at the same time as the asset is acquired.  All done in a fraction of a second with many 1,000's of trades each day. 

Traders in the trading room

Due to the profits that can be generated, the market is very heavily regulated to ensure that trades are used exclusively to finance genuine projects, or to build investor capital stacks that will be used for investment in profits.  It is difficult to access the market as, for many reasons, the traders are precluded from soliciting their own clients.  They must be introduced through trusted intermediaries, which many actors in this market falsely claim to be. 

PFX is a trusted intermediary to two trade groups with traders hosted by four Tier-1 institutions in London.

There are established options for protection of placement funds, depending on placement amount.  

 

There are NO UPFRONT FEES for cash trades.  Your cash and/or assets are never at risk.

Please download and read our Trade Desk FAQs below before moving forward.

There are a number of ways in which you can enter the market, which PFX can facilitate:

    • Sub-$10m cash trades
    • $10m+ cash trades
    • SBLC/BG monetization
    • Hard asset monetization
    • In-ground asset monetization
    • PFX PAM (Physical Asset Monetization) Program
Investors

You can increase your capital stack by placing cash into trades. Your capital is never at risk and remains in your account ’blocked’ for the trading cycle (which can usually be renewed) with a Swift MT799 or other arrangements using SBLC or other instruments. Profits can be paid wherever you designate.

Next steps

To accept this invitation to participate in the market, please click the 'Download Preliminary Enquiry Form' (PEF) button below.  This will take you to a page where you will be able to download a PEF specific to your requirements.  Please note, because of the vast sums involved, there is stringent due diligence focused on anti-money laundering. Spending time on completing the intake process at this and following stages will make for a smooth market entry.   

Please be aware that it can take many weeks for the trade desk to validate bank account, residence, passport, AML and other aspects of your application to comply with market oversight requirements.  If you have questions please download the Trade Desk FAQ's document where you will find most of them answered. 

We will not enter into discussions without sight of the relevant completed PEF and, where appropriate, proof of funds (POF) for cash trades.  There are hundreds of enquiries weekly, across the market, from 'tyre kickers' who have neither the means nor the acumen to move forward with trading and simply waste everybody's time.  The completed PEF and accompanying POF (for cash trades) will start the conversation for you.

DOWNLOAD PRELIMINARY ENQUIRY FORM DOWNLOAD TRADE DESK FAQs

NEW! PFX Arbitrage Secured Project Finance (ASProF) Program
This new and unique investment program is ideal for smaller funds seeking equity stakes in larger scale projects.  At PFX we have taken the long-established private placement program (PPP)/arbitrage trading process and combined it with our proven origination expertise to provide a new and powerful investment structure. 

The PFX Arbitrage Secured Project Finance (ASProF) Program enables investment in many more projects with the same (protected) capital commitment as you would currently use on just ONE traditional project financing.  

Download the ASProF Program Guide HERE.

Eight decades of history

Arbitrage trading was originally developed to fund major reconstruction projects after World War II. John Maynard Keynes first created the structure and introduced it at the iconic Bretton Woods conference in 1944 which also gave us the World Bank, IMF and what was at the time, the G5. Also known as private placement programs (PPP), over eight decades they have been used to fund thousands of major construction, industrial and infrastructure projects worldwide, but with minimum cash placements of $100m or more. None have ever failed. Now, after eight decades of evolution, PFX clients can enter the market with much reduced cash or assets to contribute to or completely fund their projects.