Debt Free Finance that rises above the noise.
We set our sights
on the highest standards.
Refusing to settle
for the ordinary,
We charted
a different way up.
Disciplined in method.
Uncompromising in principle.
A better route
to the highest peaks.
Investor Powered Finance for the Real Economy
Much of what is described as ‘ethical finance’ is debt re-framed, and the risk on failure still asymmetrically favours the lender.
We focus on the real trade activity underpinning the finance, rather than disconnected from it.
We build from older rules: capital aligned with outcome, shared risk, returns derived from real world productivity.
The gap
Capital Should be Tied to Something Real.
Most capital is lent at interest and disconnected from the enterprise it funds. Interest payments compound whether or not there is any economic gain.
Cordoba Capital Markets was founded on a different premise: that finance is at its best when the financier shares in the outcome of the business it backs.
Screened versions of conventional products. The structure is unchanged; a filter has been applied on top of debt-based finance.
The underlying mechanism remains interest on debt.
Screened Products
A Filter On Top
Structure Unchanged
Return From Interest
Interest-bearing debt finance, or equity dilution. Capital priced on the risk of default rather than the prospects and performance of the enterprise.
Interest-Bearing Debt
Or Dilution
Priced On Default
Not On Prospect
Lent At Interest
Priced On Default
Disconnected
Compounds Regardless
The solution
An instrument that shares profit, not one that charges for time.
A Profit-Participating Note is issued against a specified business activity and listed on a regulated exchange. Holders receive a share of the realised profit of that activity. There is no coupon, no interest, and no dilution of the business.
Exposure to real economy trade in a listed instrument. Returns come from trade profits rather than interest, and every dollar or pound is tied to a specified activity.
Listed
Profit-Sharing
Named Activity
Screened
Working capital raised without interest and without dilution. Existing ownership is unchanged, and noteholders participate in the profit of the named activity.
No Interest
No Dilution
Working Capital
Named Activity
Named Activity
Listed
Profit Shared
No Interest
Mission
Finance that supports real world growth.
To invest capital into the real economy on terms that share risk fairly, and to match every dollar and pound invested to a named activity.
We’re redefining ethical finance by enabling businesses to access debt-free capital. Our approach flexes with companies as they grow while aligning with values of transparency, fairness, and sustainability.
We’re building an economy where financial solutions serve the real economy and benefit all stakeholders, not just the financial institutions.
Real Economy
Shared Risk
Ethical Choice
Transparent
Purpose
Redefining ethical finance
We change how the real economy finances itself by connecting contracts directly to real world trade. We widen the choice for investors: asset-backed, transparent financing that shares risk with the people who carry it.
Environmental, social and governance standards guide behaviour across environmental protection, sustainability, stakeholder relationships and leadership practice. We work with clients seeking to make positive social impact and adhering to good ESG standards.
Environmental Protection
Sustainability
Stakeholder Relationships
Leadership Practice
The activities of the companies we engage with, and the securities that are issued, are carefully vetted for compliance with the highest ethical and regulatory standards. Vice industries are excluded and every instrument is interest-free.
Every return is therefore the product of debt-free, profit-sharing economics. A holder is paid out of profits from the specified trade activity, never from an interest charge on money lent.
Shari'a Vetting
Permissible Activities
Interest-Free Instruments
Leading Scholars
The real economy produces tangible goods and services rather than abstract financial instruments. We finance businesses with tangible economic activity, underpinned by real assets or inventory.
Tangible Activity
Real Assets
Inventory Backed
Named Activity
Rigorous due diligence precedes any client engagement, typically for several months via our own on-the-ground secondee to the client, an experienced fractional CFO. Performance is monitored on a real-time basis. Investors have transparent visibility of the specific business activity they are funding.
Due Diligence
Activity Visibility
Profit Agreed in Advance
Audited Reporting
Our notes are profit-sharing rather than fixed-return securities. What an investor receives depends on how the business actually performs, not on a predetermined interest payment.
Profit Sharing
No Fixed Return
Performance Linked
Aligned Outcomes
Interest Free
Real Economy
Risk Sharing
Transparent
Identity
A finance house for the real economy.
An ethical finance and investment house. Not a bank. A corporate finance advisor, issuer and arranger.
Cordoba Capital Markets prepares and structures Profit-Participating Notes for qualified investors and established businesses seeking working capital.
Our funding methodology combines trade-specific economics, detailed due diligence, controlled deployment and continuing reporting, thus aligning capital with productive trade in the real economy.
We are built for three groups the conventional market serves badly. Each is turned away by the same convention: capital priced against the risk of default rather than the prospect of the activity, and underwritten without reference to actual trade economics.
Businesses
Professional and Qualified Ethical Investors
Advisers and Intermediaries
PPNs allow mid-sized companies to gain access to a deep, diversified pool of liquidity through the international capital markets that is normally prohibitively expensive for them to access. No interest-based debt is issued or held, and every dollar or pound raised is named to an activity rather than pooled.
None Issued, None Held
Every Dollar Named
Profit-Participating Notes
Regulated Exchanges
Profit, Shared
Activity-Level Reporting
Private credit is convenient, but interest-based and won’t flex with the business. Ethical institutions align in principle, but still offer asymmetric debt. Impact funds align in intent, but are illiquid and dilutive. Cordoba offers a unique financing solution that addresses cost, convenience, flexibility, principles and intent.
Private-Credit Funds
Islamic Finance Institutions
Impact Funds
Cordoba at the Intersection
Issuer And Arranger
Not A Bank
Not A Bank
Real Economy
Cordoba Capital
Working capital for real businesses, without interest.
Companies raise funds against their trade activities via profit-participating notes (PPNs), an ethical alternative to interest-based debt. PPNs are cost effective, scalable, efficient and flex with the business. Access to international capital markets enables rapid scaling and potentially multiplies valuation.
Corporate Finance ServicesFor Businesses
Two services, one outcome.
Advisory and capital markets services sit under one roof. Our advisory and fractional CFO services work with your teams to improve financial and operational health, preparing you to face the international capital markets. Our PPN issuance team helps you to rapidly scale.
Client PortalFor Investors
Listed, regulated, institutional grade.
Professional and qualified investors take a share in the earnings of carefully selected, mature, high performance, real-economy businesses.
Investor PortalProfit-Participating Notes
The instrument that powers the entire platform.
Profit-Participating Notes are listed instruments that share profit with their holders: an ethical alternative to interest-based debt that ties every dollar and pound invested to a specified business activity.
PPN FactsheetCapital is at risk. A note carries no guarantee of return, and no guarantee of the return of capital.
Subscription proceeds are applied to one named trading activity for a stated term.
A note is not a diversified pool. It is tied to one named activity, and its outcome is that activity’s outcome. Investors select which named trade activity they wish to subscribe to.
A holder does not own the business or vote in it, but holds a note that shares the profit of a named activity for a stated term.
The holder takes no equity, no board representation and no claim on enterprise value at exit. The note runs to its stated term and ends there: a contractual entitlement to a share of a defined result, not a permanent interest in the business.
Where the trade performs, holders share the profit with the company. Where it does not, there is nothing to share. The note is not paper engineered to generate yield irrespective of economic activity.
Issued in registered note form from a bankruptcy-remote protected cell of Cordoba Capital Markets Jersey PCC. The notes programme has been admitted to a regulated exchange. Deal sizes range from USD 3 million to USD 12 million. Minimum USD 100,000 ticket per investor, per issue, professional and qualified investors only.
Source: Profit-Participating Note factsheet, 28 August 2026.
Listed
Profit-Sharing
Cross-Border
Transparent Pricing
Cordoba Investments
Exposing investors to carefully selected real-economy activities.
Cordoba channels capital into selected real-economy activities globally across sectors, curated for long-term growth and consistent returns.
Our thesis is simple, engage directly with real world enterprise, share the risk share the reward. The results are not restrictions on the instrument but the nature of the contract: capital applied directly to a named activity, not to manufactured paper that extracts value for intermediaries.
It is the principle that financed the merchant houses of Al-Andalus, in modern form.
Capital is at risk and returns are not guaranteed. Past performance is not a guide to future performance. This material is not an offer or an invitation to invest.
Each note is issued against a single named activity, so its outcome is that activity’s outcome, with no pooling to absorb a weak one. Notes are illiquid investments of a defined term, and note holders should expect to hold to the stated maturity.
Professional and qualified investors only, with a minimum of USD 100,000 per investor, per issue. Investment opportunities are notified to qualified investors via the Investor Portal. Please apply by clicking the link at the top of the page.
Source: Profit-Participating Note factsheet, 28 August 2026.
Thematic Funds
Energy & Resources
Infrastructure
Industry & Trade
Cordoba Capital · Flexible Capital
Interest is indifferent to the business. A profit share is not.
Interest on debt financing accrues whether or not there has been any economic growth. Debt service climbs exactly when trading weakens, cutting into muscle, not fat.
A profit share moves with the activity it funds. When risk of failure is priced properly, that alignment is worth more to a business than a lower headline rate. When the business is profitable, investors will want to be a part of your growth story.
Debt service is fixed and falls due whether the trade worked or not, so the cost is heaviest exactly when the business can least carry it. A profit share is calculated on what the named activity actually earned. If it earns nothing, nothing is due, and the business does not acquire a debt it has to service out of a bad quarter. The difference is felt in the weakest quarter rather than the strongest, which is the one in which working capital decides solvency.
Cost Tracks Trading
Nothing Accrues
No Debt Acquired
Solvency Preserved
A lender prices credit, not performance. The charge is a reference rate plus a spread for probability of default. It is set before any capital is allocated, and does not adjust according to the performance of the economic activity. A security is often taken through a charge over business assets, exposing the entire business to existential risk on any failure.
A profit share is priced on the result instead: the holder is paid out of what the named activity earned, so the risk is priced once, by the party carrying it, rather than charged for by one party and borne by another.
Priced On Performance
Not On Default Risk
Upside Shared
One Risk, One Price
Debt places the risk of failure on one side. The charge is fixed and falls due on the date whatever the trade did, so the business carries the whole of the downside and shares none of the lender’s return.
2 To 6% Of Face Value
12 To 36% Annualised
On A 60-Day Invoice
Mostly Recourse
Sources: UK invoice-finance market guidance 2025-26. Bank of England base rate, December 2025.
Refused finance
Three decades ago 5–10%
Today 40%
Asking for external finance at all
Late 1980s 65%
2022 to 2024 25%
72%turned down once, never apply again
£65bnof credit that never reaches them
77%would rather grow slowly than borrow
Sources: British Business Bank, Small Business Finance Markets 2025. Allica Bank, Rebooting SME Finance, 2025. Bank of England SME Finance Survey 2024.
A Profit-Participating Note funds one specified, cash-generative trading activity inside one established business. Realised profit is divided on a ratio agreed before the money moves. Nothing accrues, because nothing was lent, and if the activity fails the loss sits with the capital that accepted the commercial risk.
One Named Activity
Agreed Before Funding
12 To 36 Months
Quarterly, Profit-Linked
Source: Profit-Participating Note factsheet, 28 August 2026.
Aligned To Trading
Priced On Performance
Default Risk Is One-Sided
Access To Credit
Cordoba Advisory
Preparing high-quality businesses for their next stage of growth.
Cordoba Advisory provides senior-level counsel for founders, boards and CFOs navigating capital-raise, governance, and strategic transactions.
Client ServicesCapital Raise
Pre-IPO
M&A
Governance
Method
From a named activity to a distributed profit share.
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01
Activity identified
A specified, cash-generative activity within an established business is assessed and documented.
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02
Note issued
Cordoba Capital Markets issues notes against that activity via a Jersey-regulated, bankruptcy-remote, segregated issuance vehicle.
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03
Capital deployed
Proceeds fund the named activity only, reported at activity level.
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04
Profit shared
Profits are typically distributed quarterly in accordance with the agreed split.
Reach
Headquartered in London, our reach is global.
We operate from London, Jersey and Abu Dhabi, with reach across every major market.
Every relationship is built on local market knowledge, global execution capability, and uncompromising integrity.
London HQ
Jersey
Abu Dhabi
Global Reach
Compliance
Our regulatory framework
At CCM we operate under an integrated governance framework that aligns our products with principles of fairness, transparency, and real-economy value creation, matching disclosure and conduct standards across every jurisdiction we serve.
Every instrument we issue is consented to by the regulator, listed on an international exchange, and fully compliant with the laws of every jurisdiction we serve.
UK & EU Regulation
Disclosure Standards
Sanctions Screening
Cross-Border Listings
Rigorous onboarding before any capital is raised: legal review, UBO identification, sanctions screening, and business-model diligence.
UBO Identification
Issuer Diligence
Legal Review
ABAC Compliance
Internal governance and transparent reporting protect investors, issuers and markets alike.
Transparent Reporting
Board Oversight
Aligned Incentives
Risk Frameworks
Regulatory Compliance
Counterparty Diligence
Board Oversight
Transparent Reporting
CSR
A structural transformation in financial services takes a generation, so we teach the next one.
Rebuilding financial services on a debt-free, profit-sharing model requires challenging the prevailing wisdom of economics, and a challenge of that kind cannot be won overnight; it settles over a generation rather than a single cycle. Our corporate social responsibility programme is therefore education, beginning with community courses and extending, through student societies, into formal partnership with universities.
Community Education
Student Groups
University Partnerships
Financial Literacy
Principles
Four pillars of our methodology.
Tie every dollar and pound to something real
If we cannot name the business activity a note funds, we do not issue it.
Share the outcome, never charge for time
Our return is a share of profit. We do not issue, hold or arrange interest-bearing instruments.
Explain it in a sentence, or redesign it
Complexity that cannot be explained to the investor who bears it is a defect, not a feature.
Steward, don’t extract
We measure ourselves on what the businesses we fund still look like in ten years, not on what we booked in the quarter we funded them.
Track Record
Market Proven.
Our proposition was radical. In an economy that runs on debt, it was not enough to show that an alternative works; it had to work better. The concept is proved and the mission ignited: finance as an enabling partner to the businesses it funds, rather than an extracting master.
Our people
A world-class management team.
Our team brings blue-chip, international experience and is internationally recognised as world leaders in their fields.
Harris Irfan
Chief Executive Officer
30+ years in investment banking and Islamic finance. Former co-founder of Deutsche Bank Islamic Finance and CEO of its Islamic subsidiary. Former Global Head of Islamic Finance at Barclays.
Amir Khayat
Chief Financial Officer
15+ years ACA qualified, a finance executive at former FTSE 100, private-equity backed and SME companies since training with KPMG. Expertise spans M&A, compliance, reporting and taxation.
Ashley Freeman
General Counsel
30+ years in banking, capital markets and Islamic finance law. Former General Counsel of the Central Bank of Bahrain. Former founder of Clifford Chance Islamic Finance.
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