International Trade Finance Masterclass
A structured approach to the risks, documents and instruments of international trade — so your team can structure trade finance that fits the client’s working capital cycle.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
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Trade deals fail on detail: a misread bill of lading, a payment method that shifts risk to the wrong party, a funding gap nobody priced. This three-day programme takes a structured, systematic approach to the risks inherent in international trade and the techniques that mitigate or transfer them between the parties to a transaction. Participants work from the client’s working capital cycle — identifying financing needs, matching them to instruments from open account and collections to documentary credits and bank payment obligations, and structuring solutions that hold up commercially. The cohort works through trade documentation, governing bodies and rules, short- to long-term trade finance, Islamic trade finance, and the technology now reshaping the trade cycle.
What you will do
Who attends
- Credit and risk heads and managers
- Transaction banking sales and product specialists
- Relationship bankers covering corporate and trade clients
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The trade environment
- Current trends in the global export/import arena
- Types of risk and mitigation techniques
- Governing bodies, rules and global business ethics
II.Documents and payment methods
- Financial, commercial and transport documents
- Open account, collections and documentary credits
- Bank payment obligations
III.Structuring trade finance
- The trade cycle and funding gaps
- Short-, medium- and long-term instruments
- Islamic trade finance
- Credit risk assessment from international financial statements
IV.Innovation and process
- Technology in international trade finance
- Global credit and accounts receivable process improvements
- Recommending the optimal trade finance solution
Frequently asked
Do these programmes cover the Basel III final reforms and the ICAAP/ILAAP cycle?
Yes. The BIZENIUS banking curriculum is built around the Basel III endgame, ICAAP, ILAAP, IRRBB, IFRS 9 provisioning, stress testing and BCBS 239. Participants leave able to quantify the output floor on their own portfolios, write capital and liquidity documents that withstand supervisory review, and defend the numbers to their board.
Are the programmes adapted to regional supervisors such as SAMA, CBUAE or BCEAO?
Casework is built around supervisory documents rather than textbook theory, and faculty include former practitioners who have sat on both sides of an examination. Programmes address the questions SAMA, CBUAE, BCEAO and other home regulators actually put to the desk, and an in-house edition can be tailored to a single jurisdiction.
How do I secure a seat on a banking programme?
Apply for a seat or request the brochure from the programme page. A senior practitioner — not a sales team — responds within one business day, and the brochure arrives with that reply. BIZENIUS runs on enquiry: there is no online checkout.
Can a programme run in-house for our bank?
Every BIZENIUS programme can be delivered in-house, tailored to your balance sheet, your regulator and your data, in English or French. Many institutions start with an open cohort, then commission a private edition for the wider team.
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