Trade Finance Applied to Treasury - Advanced

Treasurer and Cash Managers wishing to further develop their knowledge.

Have already some basics knowledge and experience in Trade Finance and/or have completed the training "Trade Finance Applied to Treasury - Fundamentals".

This module is part of the certified path"International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance - Advanced". It can also be taken independently.

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Have an in-depth understanding over the security instruments used in trade finance activities, their specificities, their governing rules, their potential cost, complexity and underlying risks
• Understand what the available alternate instruments are
• Understand the trade finance market shape today, as well as the technologies available to help transact more efficiently
• Support senior commercial and credit coordinators in companies of any size
• Be capable to advise internal customers over complex situations and become key stakeholders in the decision making process

• General context
• Cultural aspects
• Why trade finance in treasury
• Type of instruments
• Bank guarantees
• Bürgschaft
• Surety bonds
• Letters of credit
• Cash against documents
• Forfeiting
• Factoring & reverse factoring
• Alternatives
• Cash-in-advance
• Corporate guarantees
• Disruptive technologies

At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate of participation delivered by the House of Training.