FCStone Merchant Services, LLC is the company’s commodity financing and arbitrage arm. This unit is 100 percent owned by FCStone.
Merchant Services functions at the convergence of the banking, commodity, capital, and insurance markets by offering clients specialized financing through inventory repurchase arrangements, transactional commodity finance arrangements and processing and tolling arrangements. Merchant Services can provide incremental, structured commodity financing to clients as an adjunct to their established banking relationships. Their goal is to help clients to optimize their fixed assets, such as storage facilities, terminals, pipelines and processing facilities.