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How Credit Suisse clients finance Softbank’s Vision Fund

SoftBank-backed Greensill has brokered hundreds of millions in trade finance to four companies held by SoftBank's Vision Fund

Pedestrians pass by the front of the Credit Suisse Group headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland
Pedestrians pass by the front of the Credit Suisse Group headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland Photo: Getty Images

Cash is hard to come by right now — but less so for several SoftBank Vision Fund companies, which have recently tapped hundreds of millions of dollars from clients of a Credit Suisse fund via another SoftBank-backed firm.

Four Vision Fund companies have received as much as 15% of the financing provided by a $5bn Credit Suisse fund which invests exclusively in assets brokered by Greensill Capital, according to a client presentation dated April 2020. 

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