International Trade Finance is an enriching package of the 9 individual financial e-Learning courses, reflective of real-world operational issues, best and conforming practices by the parties involved in International Trade Finance.

Target Audience

With the inherent potential to be a vital e-Learning and reference module for transactions involving trade finance documents, KESDEE's e-learning course library on International Trade Finance is relevant for professionals in international trade, like bankers, exporters, importers, lawyers.

Instructional Method
Dynamic, Interactive e-learning

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1. Fundamentals of International Trade and Banking:

• Money and its characteristics
• Role of the Federal Reserve Bank
• Movement of money from buyer to seller
• Origins of trade and trade regulations
• Principles of international banking
  

2. International Payment Terms:

• The life of a trade transaction
• Risks involved in cross-border transactions
• What exporters are looking for
• What importers are looking for
• Choosing credit/payment terms
• How documentary collections work: sight drafts & time drafts
• How letters of credit work

3. Draft and Direct Collections:

• Draft collection
• The collection process and Instructions letter
• Documentary sight and time drafts
• Avalized drafts
• Choosing among the different types of documentary drafts
• Clean drafts
• Borrowing against draft collections
• How a Direct collection works

4. How Letters of Credit Work:

• The theories and principles on which letters of credit are based
• The different types of letters of credit
• The process of issuing a letter of credit
• The uses of a letter of credit and its characteristics
• The real working flows of letters of credit
• The various rules that govern letters of credit

5. Export Letters of Credit:

• The export letters of credit
• The mechanism of exports letters of credit
• Letter of credit instructions
• The importance of examining letters of credit
• The ways to avoid discrepancies
• Common discrepancies encountered by banks
• Transfer under letters of credit
• Assignment of proceeds under letters of credit
  

6. Import Letters of Credit:

• The meaning of import letters of credit
• The mechanics of import letters of credit
• How the procedure of payment and collection works
• The revolving letters of credit
• The installment letters of credit

7.Standby Letters of Credit:

• The meaning of Standby letters of credit
• The working of Standby letters of credit
• The meaning of Bid Bonds
• The concept of Performance Bonds
• Advance payment Bonds
• Credit line support
• Evergreen letters of credit
• Clean letters of credit

8. Structuring Trade Loans:

• How do companies finance international trade
• The differences between:
  • Trade financing and regular lending
  • Trade financing and project financing
• The two basic variations in trade financing
• Different trade structures
• Various tools used for financing international trade

9. Monitoring Trade Loans:

• Credit management in banks
• Funded and unfunded financing
• Different risk sharing structures:
• Syndication
• Participation
• Securitization
• Differences between bullet loans, installment loans, and revolving loans
• Various security measures
• Situations when loans go bad