Our Story

Equinorth Capital Limited (ECL) is a proprietary entity that focuses on building positive and socially conscious ecosystems by aggregating potentially viable business with the objective of creating innovative products and solutions that are accessible to an average Nigerian citizen and enterprises. 

Equinorth Capital Limited was founded by competent individuals with diverse experience, qualifications and backgrounds in Finance and Economics. As a team, we identified the basic finance gaps of various economic units, hence our team has set out to bridge the divides.

While trying to bridge the gap, we developed a business model that allows us to operate in small and mid level financial supports where and when required. 

We work with organizations to achieve underlying business objectives, to maximize value and increase profit, by managing and optimizing the organization’s financial resources.  

The company provides tailor-made financing solutions to both suppliers and buyers by offering solution-oriented personal and trade finance structures which may include Financial Advisory Services, small to mid-scale funding; Diverse variants of Receivable Finance; Invoice Discounting / factoring, forfeiting of receivables etc.

In this respect, all transactions are handled with a special approach in order to find the right solution that best fits the customers’ needs.

Our highly trained and specialized team will help you extend your trading  frontier with an alternative but tailored made trade finance solutions designed especially  for businesses that produce, trade and purchase commodities which include Energy, Mining & Metals (gold, zinc, copper, cobalt  etc) and Soft Commodities (agriculture crops – Coffee, Cashew Maize, Cocoa).

Our scale of support is also extended to contemporary industries like Manufacturing, Telecoms  etc thereby creating an avenue for Trade Solution Centre with a One-Stop-Shop flavour.

The structures transverses basic support for outgrowers, Processors, Tollers Exporters, Importers Warehousemen and endusers.

We have assisted some of the world's leading brands with capacity building, advisory services, projection for brand visibility, cash flow management, ,and extracting better terms from suppliers through our various suite of supply chain finance solutions.

Solutions We Offer

Equinorth Capital Limited provides financing solutions at each stage of the supply chain. Below are the solutions we provide:

Direct Lending Business

Our direct lending business is focused on secured, short to medium finance for capacity building duration trade finance facilities.

Facilities are typically secured by a combination of:

• security over assets;
• security over inventory;
• assignment of off take contracts; and
• a collection account controlled by us.

Other fall backs and flexible options available and deemed sufficient at the time of finance

The background of our multi-discipline team and our deep understanding of the agricultural commodity markets differentiate our approach. 

More also, our risk evaluation is a balanced approach among creditworthiness,  the collateral and security structure; therefore, Equinorth Capital Limited can support clients even at periods considered off for financing .

Our financing solutions are flexible – we take a solutions-based approach when structuring for your business needs. We address our client’s requirements in a traditional way – we listen and remain sensitive to timing requirements.

Other Services