JCRA provides Financial Risk Management and Structured Finance services. Through the use of structured hedging strategies JCRA helps clients generate improved profitability. The service is tailored to the unique circumstances of each client.

JCRA produces hedging strategies that are designed to minimise the threat to profitability that might be caused by adverse market movements.

   Bank debt
   Mezzanine finance
   Securitisation

JCRA provides an independent valuation and benchmarking service, ensuring that clients benefit from the best return available to suit their needs.

JCRA's activities provide us with an unrivalled knowledge of availability and pricing across the range of alternative debt structures. In 2003 a separate company, J.C. Rathbone Structured Finance (JCRSF), was incorporated to provide our clients with the opportunity to utilise this knowledge.

We provide totally independent advice on the viability of alternative forms of finance, primarily to asset-backed companies. Apart from bank debt, JCRSF has an applied specialist knowledge of financing through securitisation, including conduits.

JCRSF has considerable expertise in preparing the preliminary cashflow analysis that is paramount to a successful decision-making process and has the ability to introduce our clients to potential lenders according to the most appropriate structure.