International Trade Finance

Agenda Summary ï Letters of Credit and Their Variants ï The Evolution of Letters of Credit in the Trade Cycle ï Back to Back Issues ï The Essential Differences Between Guarantees and Standby L/Cs ï Forfaiting and Factoring ï Warehouse Financing and Fraud Avoidance ï Structured Pre-Export Finance Case Studies and Practical Workshops ï Who takes the main risk? ï The ICC 600 in-tray exercises ï Case studies in back to back financing ï Utilise L/Cs and guarantees to structure a workable solution for a client ï Reading material for tripartite oil for coffee ìback to backî style financing ï Define the products by example ï Review the risks inherent in the conditional guarantee and standby being utilised as payment mechanisms ï Bondtrade ï Product innovation, making the market ï The internal presentation ï Spotting and avoiding fraud in trade finance: five generic case studies ï Securitisation and pre-export finance structures ï Question and answer session and a look at the future via Energy Structured Export Notes