Process & Fees
Funding Process, Eligibility and Fees
A transparent view of how Finance Volt Global assesses projects, what makes a project eligible, the stages a funding request follows, and how any fees and third-party costs are disclosed.
Funding requests considered
USD 500,000 to USD 100,000,000
Finance Volt Global supports the assessment, preparation, structuring, and presentation of qualifying projects seeking funding between USD 500,000 and USD 100,000,000.
The amount ultimately considered, offered, committed, or disbursed may be lower than requested. Being within this range does not mean a project will be funded.
The amount depends on factors including
- Project eligibility
- Project stage
- Sector
- Country
- Sponsor experience
- Sponsor financial contribution
- Commercial viability
- Project cash flow
- Security or collateral, where applicable
- Legal rights
- Licences and approvals
- Technical feasibility
- Environmental and social considerations
- Independent valuation
- Due-diligence findings
- Currency
- Funding structure
- Capital-provider mandate
- Credit or investment committee approval
- Final legal agreements
Our role
How funding is arranged or provided
Finance Volt Global is not automatically the lender. Every transaction makes the role of the capital provider explicit.
Finance Volt Global-arranged funding
Finance Volt Global may identify and introduce suitable capital providers after the project completes the applicable assessment, verification, documentation, and approval stages. In this role we assess, structure, prepare, or introduce the project to an external lender, investor, family office, institution, fund, or strategic partner.
Finance Volt Global is not the lender of record in this arrangement.
Direct or partner-funded transactions
Where direct or partner funding is available, the identity and role of the capital provider will be disclosed in the applicable mandate, term sheet, commitment letter, or financing agreement. This applies only where an identified Finance Volt entity or a formally appointed funding partner legally and contractually provides capital.
The capital provider's identity and role are always disclosed in the transaction documents.
Eligibility
What a suitable project normally has
A project should normally meet the following before it can progress. Meeting them does not guarantee funding.
Eligibility indicators
- A legally identifiable project owner
- A verified company or organisation
- Clear beneficial ownership
- A defined project with a clear location
- A funding requirement of at least USD 500,000
- A request not exceeding USD 100,000,000 unless management approves an exception
- A clear use of funds
- A realistic implementation plan
- A suitable revenue, repayment, public-service, or investor-return model
- Evidence of sponsor commitment
- Supporting documentation
- Required licences or a credible licensing plan
- Land, concession, lease, or operating rights
- A qualified management and technical team
- Willingness to complete KYC, KYB, compliance, and due diligence
- No material undisclosed legal or ownership disputes
- No sanctions prohibition
- Authority to submit and represent the project
Applications may be declined where
- Ownership cannot be verified
- The applicant lacks authority to represent the project
- Fraudulent documents are used
- Licences or land rights are false, expired, disputed, or unavailable
- The use of funds is unclear
- The requested amount is unsupported
- Financial projections are materially unrealistic
- The project depends on guaranteed returns
- Unlawful activity is involved
- Unacceptable sanctions, corruption, money-laundering, environmental, social, or reputational risk exists
- Beneficial ownership is withheld
- Independent due diligence is refused
- Required information is repeatedly withheld
- Fees are requested through unofficial accounts
- The project does not match available capital mandates
- The project is too early to be investment-ready
A decline does not mean a project can never succeed — it may simply not be ready or matched to available capital at this time.
The complete funding process
Fourteen structured stages
Each stage is documented. The label on each stage shows how fees, if any, apply. Progress through a stage is never a guarantee of any outcome.
- 1No Fee
Initial Enquiry
You submit your contact, organisation, sector, country, a short summary, estimated project cost, amount requested, preferred funding structure, and current project stage. We record the enquiry, confirm receipt, check apparent range eligibility, flag any obvious issues, and advise whether to submit a full application.
- 2No Fee
Preliminary Screening
We review range, sector, country, sponsor identity, ownership, stage, funding purpose, commercial model, documentation, and any major legal or reputational concerns. Outcomes may be a full-application invitation, a request for more information, a consultation referral, readiness advice, or a decline. No financing is guaranteed at this stage.
- 3Quoted Before Engagement
Full Project Application
You complete the full application and upload supporting documents (registration, shareholding, beneficial ownership, director identification, project description, business plan, feasibility study, financials, budget, use-of-funds schedule, licences, land documents, contracts, valuation, technical and environmental reports). Submission does not create a financial obligation. Before any paid work begins we disclose scope, fee quotation, payment schedule, refund policy, tax treatment, cancellation terms, deliverables, and client responsibilities.
- 4Quoted Before Engagement
KYC, KYB and Compliance Review
We review identity, company existence, directors, beneficial owners, representatives, PEP and sanctions exposure, adverse media, source of sponsor funds, conflicts, country risk, and legal or regulatory concerns. Normal internal screening may be included in engagement fees; enhanced or external checks are only carried out when necessary, disclosed in advance, documented, and approved in writing.
- 5Quoted Before Engagement
Project Assessment
We assess sponsor capacity, viability, demand, technical feasibility, legal rights, cost, revenue, financial model, repayment or investor-return structure, sponsor equity, security, ESG risks, implementation plan, capital structure, and risk allocation. The project assessment fee is quoted after preliminary screening and before work begins.
- 6Payable at Milestone
Investment-Readiness Preparation
Where suitable, we help prepare the project profile, investment memorandum, funding proposal, financial summary, use-of-funds schedule, timeline, risk summary, presentation, data-room index, document checklist, investor Q&A, capital structure, and funding strategy. Commercial structures may be a fixed fee, milestone fee, monthly retainer, combined fixed and success fee, or a custom quotation, always set out in a written engagement letter.
- 7Quoted Before Engagement
Funding Structure and Mandate
We agree the funding structure (for example senior debt, subordinated debt, mezzanine, equity, preferred equity, joint venture, project finance, asset-backed, trade finance, acquisition finance, refinancing, blended finance, PPP, or strategic investment). A written mandate describes role, responsibilities, scope, exclusivity, target, term, fee structure, success trigger, expenses, confidentiality, termination, conflicts, and dispute resolution.
- 8Quoted Before Engagement
Capital Matching and Presentation
This may include mandate and lender matching, confidential teasers, NDAs, a data room, meetings, questions, additional documents, and site visits. A meeting, document request, data-room review, or expression of interest is not a funding commitment.
- 9Transaction-Specific
Indicative Proposal or Term Sheet
A capital provider may issue an expression of interest, indicative proposal, heads of terms, term sheet, credit or investment proposal, or conditional commitment. These are potentially non-binding and conditional — subject to due diligence, committee approval, legal documentation, and conditions precedent. A term sheet is never completed funding.
- 10Third-Party Cost
Detailed Due Diligence
Independent legal, financial, tax, technical, ESG, market, valuation, insurance, security, title, licence, management, and site-inspection reviews, and an independent model audit, may be carried out. Third-party costs may be payable by the sponsor; the provider, scope, cost approval, invoicing, and any Finance Volt referral compensation are disclosed. No payments are made to personal accounts.
- 11Third-Party Cost
Final Approval and Documentation
Approvals may include a credit committee, investment committee, board, government, regulatory, or insurance approval. Documents may include loan, subscription, shareholders', security, escrow, intercreditor, guarantee, offtake, and conditions-precedent agreements. Funding is not complete merely because documents have been drafted.
- 12Payable at Financial Close
Financial Close
Financial close requires the agreements to be signed, approvals completed, conditions precedent satisfied or waived, security completed, insurance active, sponsor equity available, and the capital provider's authorization in place. Any success or arrangement fee is payable only according to the exact signed trigger, such as a binding agreement, financial close, first disbursement, or amount actually raised.
- 13Transaction-Specific
Disbursement
Funds may be released as one payment, in tranches, against milestones, invoices, construction certificates, verified delivery, escrow release, approved suppliers, or a controlled project account. The method is stated in the financing agreement, and the capital provider may delay or refuse release if conditions are not satisfied.
- 14Transaction-Specific
Monitoring and Reporting
Ongoing obligations may include use-of-funds, financial, construction, operational, environmental, covenant, insurance, site, repayment, and investor reporting. Any monitoring or supervision fees are disclosed in the final transaction documents.
Fee categories
Three separate categories of cost
Finance Volt Global fees are kept clearly separate from capital-provider fees and independent professional costs.
Finance Volt Global service fees
Fees for services we may provide directly. Only management-approved amounts are ever published; otherwise a fee is quoted in writing before engagement.
- Project assessment
- Investment-readiness preparation
- Funding strategy
- Documentation support
- Data-room preparation
- Capital-introduction mandate
- Transaction coordination
- Advisory
- Success or arrangement fee
Capital-provider fees
Charged by the lender, investor, or institution — not automatically Finance Volt Global income. Disclosed in the applicable term sheet or financing agreement.
- Front-end fee
- Arrangement fee
- Commitment fee
- Syndication fee
- Agency fee
- Security-agent fee
- Monitoring and supervision fees
- Prepayment or cancellation fees
- Late-payment charges and default interest
- Legal, technical-adviser, insurance and valuation costs
Independent professional costs
Payable to independent third parties for their own work. Kept entirely separate from Finance Volt Global fees and billed at cost against invoices.
- Legal, accounting and tax advisers
- Technical and engineering consultants
- Environmental and social specialists
- Surveyors and valuers
- Insurance advisers
- Independent financial-model audit
- Compliance and laboratory or geological services
- Quantity surveyors
- Travel and site-inspection costs
Category A — published Finance Volt Global service fees
For context only
Indicative international financing fee benchmarks
There is no universal lender or DFI fee schedule, and charges vary. The figures below are educational references drawn from public institutional products.
| Fee type | Indicative example | Typical basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front-end fee | Approximately 0.25% to 1% in selected published institutional products | Percentage of the committed or approved loan | Selected public institutional financing product schedules |
| Commitment fee | Approximately 0.25% to 1% per year in selected published institutional products | Undisbursed committed balance | Selected public institutional financing product schedules |
| Appraisal fee | Negotiated | Complexity and assessment work | General institutional practice |
| Arrangement fee | Negotiated | Amount arranged and transaction complexity | General institutional practice |
| Syndication fee | Negotiated | Syndicated financing | General institutional practice |
| Legal and technical expenses | Actual or agreed cost | Third-party invoices and expenses | General institutional practice |
| Prepayment or cancellation fee | Transaction-specific | Financing agreement | General institutional practice |
| Late-payment charges | Transaction-specific | Overdue amount and agreement | General institutional practice |
Finance Volt Global will disclose its applicable service fees before paid work begins.
- Fees are documented in an engagement letter, mandate, service agreement, invoice, or transaction document.
- Payments require an official invoice, a verified company-controlled account, the correct company name, a payment reference, and a client-account record.
- Third-party and capital-provider charges are separate from Finance Volt Global fees and are disclosed in the applicable documentation.
We never request payment to
- • Employee personal accounts
- • Agent personal accounts
- • Personal mobile-money accounts
- • Unverified crypto wallets
- • Unrelated companies
We never charge invented “release” fees such as
- • Activation fee
- • Server fee
- • Wallet fee
- • SWIFT-code fee
- • Anti-terrorism certificate fee
- • IMF clearance fee
- • Central-bank release code fee
- • Account-unblocking fee
- • Fund-flashing fee
Any genuine banking or regulatory charge is independently verifiable and documented.
Fee estimator
See which fee categories may apply
An educational guide only. It shows which service and cost categories may be relevant — it does not price your transaction or indicate any funding outcome.
Fee FAQs
Common questions about fees
Is there a fee to submit a project?
No. The initial enquiry is free — we never ask for payment simply to view or submit the basic enquiry form. Any fees for later services are quoted in writing before work begins.
Do fees guarantee funding?
No. Paying a fee never guarantees approval, commitment, disbursement, investor returns, or transaction completion. Fees relate to services and work performed, not to a funding outcome.
When will I know the fees?
Finance Volt Global service fees are disclosed before any paid work begins, in a written quotation and engagement letter. Third-party and capital-provider charges appear in the applicable transaction documentation.
Are due-diligence costs refundable?
Third-party due-diligence work is generally billed at cost and its refund position is set out in the written engagement. Independent providers may not refund work already performed.
Is the success fee payable before funding?
No. Any success or arrangement fee is payable only on the exact signed trigger — for example a binding agreement, financial close, first disbursement, or the amount actually raised.
Can fees be deducted from funding proceeds?
Only where this is expressly agreed in the signed transaction documents. It is never assumed and never a substitute for the documented fee terms.
Does Finance Volt Global set the interest rate?
No. Interest, returns, tenor, and security are determined by the capital provider and the specific project, through negotiation and legally binding documentation.
Can I pay an agent personally?
No. Never pay fees to personal accounts, personal mobile-money accounts, unverified wallets, or unrelated companies. Pay only to a verified company account against an official invoice.
Are taxes included?
Any applicable taxes are stated clearly in the quotation and invoice as either included in, or added to, the quoted fee.
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