The Orion group
Four complementary platforms — advisory, credit scoring, trade-finance structuring and a trade-finance fund — built by the same partners to serve markets the banks have left behind.
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Orion Financial Solutions
The advisory firm at the centre of the group since 2002: debt restructuring, capital markets, rating advisory, Islamic finance, valuation, privatisation and licensing, for corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns.
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Orion is where mandates begin. Its diagnosis of a company — reconstructed financials, independent valuation, business plan — often reveals the need for one of the group’s other platforms: a score that a foreign lender will accept, a factoring line to replace frozen bank credit, or an investor in the fund.
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Orion Scoring & Rating
A cloud platform that turns standard financial statements into multi-dimensional credit scores in minutes, with modules for banks and microfinance institutions, companies (financial, ESG and Sharia compliance), insurers, retail borrowers, and the valuation of start-ups and operating companies.
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Rating agencies cover the largest issuers; the rest of the market — the vast majority of companies in the Arab world — goes unrated and therefore unfunded. Orion Scoring & Rating was built for exactly that gap: fast, consistent and explainable scores, validated against historical outcomes, that lenders, investors and regulators can use in their own decisions.
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Levant Trading Solutions
A factoring brokerage established in Beirut in October 2022 with the support of the USAID Trade and Investment Facilitation project. It connects Lebanese manufacturers with foreign factors and credit insurers, so that exporters are paid on day one and importers can buy raw materials without letters of credit.
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LTS works through a three-way partnership — broker, credit insurer, factor. The factor buys the exporter’s invoice at a discount; the credit insurer covers the risk of the foreign buyer’s default; LTS selects and prepares the transaction and assesses the risk. The result replaces cash-only trade with financed trade, and shrinks the cash economy one invoice at a time.
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Lebanon Trade Finance Support Fund
A Cyprus-domiciled trade-finance fund, co-managed with Ellinas Finance, that factors the export invoices of Lebanese industrial companies. Receivables are insured against default, giving investors a short-duration return backed by real trade.
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The fund complements Levant Trading Solutions by adding a dedicated pool of capital to the factoring channel. Investors — institutional and qualified individuals, including the Lebanese diaspora — gain exposure to short-dated, credit-insured trade receivables; Lebanese manufacturers gain working capital to produce and export more. The fund is also the vehicle for the group’s energy-finance structures, including municipal solar.