AXIOM Capital
About Us
SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE
Alternative Trade Finance • Strategic Advisory
What Sets Us Apart
AXIOM Capital is an independent investment advisory boutique specializing in alternative credit and trade finance. Positioned at the intersection of private capital and real-economy financing, the firm develops investment and advisory solutions supporting the infrastructure that underpins international commerce.
AXIOM Capital advises banks, asset managers, wealth managers, family offices, and institutional investors on liquidity management, credit risks, and investment opportunities linked to global trade flows. The firm also provides expertise in financial structuring, strategic advisory, and corporate finance.
Three Distinct and Complementary Strengths
Sector Expertise. Nearly two decades of experience in commodity trade finance across multiple market cycles, supply-chain disruptions, and changing regulatory environments. This experience provides a granular understanding of counterparty risk, collateral structures, and physical commodity flows.
Extensive Borrower Network. Long-standing relationships with commodity trading companies active across energy, metals, and agricultural markets. These relationships are built on years of direct market engagement and a proven understanding of operational performance, financing needs, and repayment behaviour.
Geneva-Centric Market Access. Headquartered in Geneva, one of the world's leading commodity trading centres, AXIOM Capital benefits from direct access to a highly concentrated ecosystem of traders, financiers, service providers, and market participants across global energy, metals, and agricultural supply chains.
Sector Expertise. Nearly two decades of experience in commodity trade finance across multiple market cycles, supply-chain disruptions, and changing regulatory environments. This experience provides a granular understanding of counterparty risk, collateral structures, and physical commodity flows.
Extensive Borrower Network. Long-standing relationships with commodity trading companies active across energy, metals, and agricultural markets. These relationships are built on years of direct market engagement and a proven understanding of operational performance, financing needs, and repayment behaviour.
Geneva-Centric Market Access. Headquartered in Geneva, one of the world's leading commodity trading centres, AXIOM Capital benefits from direct access to a highly concentrated ecosystem of traders, financiers, service providers, and market participants across global energy, metals, and agricultural supply chains.
Experienced Team with Deep Institutional Roots
Our team combines extensive industry expertise with a broad international network, allowing us to deliver tailored financing and advisory solutions aligned with our clients' strategic and operational objectives.
Team members have structured and managed credit portfolios ranging from hundreds of millions to several billions of dollars across the full spectrum of commodity finance and corporate lending activities.
Leadership combines senior management experience across international banks, commodity trading companies, and alternative investment platforms, alongside active academic engagement, including teaching commodity finance at the University of Geneva. This combination of institutional finance expertise and operational market knowledge provides a differentiated perspective on trade finance and private credit opportunities.
Stanislas Mazuranic — Managing Partner & Founder
Stanislas Mazuranic brings nearly two decades of experience in commodity finance across international banks, alternative investment platforms and commodity trading companies.
He spent 13 years with two commodity trade finance banks, where he held relationship management, portfolio management and deputy group head roles in energy and metals, financing SMEs as well as large integrated commodity groups. During this period, he represented his bank on the interbank committee that established Switzerland's Recommended Best Practices for Commodity Trade Finance. He then served as COO of an alternative investment fund specialised in trade-related private debt with over USD 1.5 billion in assets under management, before joining a global trading company as Finance Director, gaining direct operational experience of the borrower's side of the trade.
Since 2011, he has taught commodity finance at the University of Geneva's School of Economics and Management, within its Commodity Trading programmes (Master, DAS, CAS).
Viviane Wantz-Romy — Senior Advisor, Risk & Trade Finance
Viviane Wantz-Romy brings more than 15 years of experience in commodity finance, acquired through senior roles in credit risk management, front-office origination, and trade finance leadership positions within leading international financial institutions and commodity trading companies.
Her combined experience across lending, risk assessment, and commercial operations provides valuable insight into both the financial and operational dimensions of international trade, enabling a comprehensive approach to risk management and transaction structuring.
Paul Planchon — Senior Advisor, Investor Relations & Product Structuring
Paul Planchon brings more than 15 years of experience in transaction structuring, fundraising, and private market investments, gained across leading private banking and investment institutions specializing in structured products and cross-asset investment solutions.
His career spans financial intermediation and capital raising across real estate, trade finance, private debt, and private equity transactions, advising SMEs, high-net-worth individuals, banks, and family offices. His experience provides valuable insight into investor requirements, capital formation strategies, and bespoke financing solutions.