Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC) is continually strengthening its presence in the region, which is recognized as a high-growth area for commercial aviation with increasing demand for aviation financing.

BCC regularly organizes events in the Middle East that are designed to engage the region’s finance community. Since 2006, it has hosted annual Airline Planning Seminars for financiers in the Middle East, and its Middle East Financiers and Investors conference has become an annual event.

BCC’s latest focus for the region is to explore opportunities for Islamic finance in the aviation sector and it is actively looking at the possibility of including aircraft finance in the Islamic Sukuk, or bond, market. This would involve an Islamic financier securitizing an aircraft finance portfolio in the Sukuk market, similar to how aircraft investments are structured in the U.S. using a security instrument known as the Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificate (EETC). 

As a wholly owned Boeing subsidiary, BCC creates financing solutions for customers purchasing the company’s commercial airplane and defense products. As the company’s investment bank, it works closely with third-party financing sources that provide nearly all of the financing support required by Boeing customers. BCC also manages the company’s $6 billion portfolio of approximately 325 aircraft, many of them newer, fuel efficient jetliners.