Finance and Banking

International Trade Finance and Documentary Credit Operations

A structured, applied course in trade finance and documentary credits — designed to be used the week you return.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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International Trade Finance and Documentary Credit Operations
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

The audit trail behind trade finance and documentary credits matters as much as the decision itself. Growth built on poorly controlled documentary credits reverses faster than it accumulated. The difficulty is not agreeing that this area of financial and banking practice matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The content is relevant to those who own trade finance and documentary credits and to those who are held accountable for its results. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on the financial and banking practice discipline and revise it on evidence. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in documentary credits that were visible long before the incident. It establishes a shared vocabulary for trade finance and documentary credits so that teams can disagree productively about it. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from documentary credits, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The programme closes with an action plan for the wider financial and banking practice agenda that each participant writes for their own organisation.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Design the reporting on trade finance and documentary credits that reaches decision makers in time to act.

  • Price documentary credits to reflect the risk actually being taken.

  • Present the case for investment in trade finance and documentary credits in terms that a finance function will accept.

  • Select indicators that show whether documentary credits is improving, and reject those that only look useful.

  • Define the risk appetite applying to trade finance and documentary credits and translate it into operating limits.

  • Set early warning indicators that flag deterioration in documentary credits.

  • Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around trade finance and documentary credits.

Who Should Attend

  • Relationship and product managers whose targets depend on trade finance and documentary credits.

  • Board risk committee members overseeing documentary credits.

  • Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by trade finance and documentary credits.

  • Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on documentary credits.

  • Risk managers responsible for trade finance and documentary credits.

  • Compliance officers overseeing documentary credits.

Course Modules

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01

Trade finance and documentary credits: pricing, profitability and risk-adjusted return

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Concentration building quietly inside trade finance and documentary credits

  • Build the competence framework that supports trade finance and documentary credits.
  • Identify where judgement in documentary credits is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains trade finance and documentary credits to those affected.
  • Check the accounting treatment applied to documentary credits against current standards.

Session 2Reviewing documentary credits when nothing has gone wrong

  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about trade finance and documentary credits.
  • Identify the key controls over documentary credits and who tests them.
  • Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering trade finance and documentary credits.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of documentary credits current.
02

Documentary credits: stress testing and scenario analysis

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What to measure in documentary credits and what to ignore

  • Translate the appetite for trade finance and documentary credits into limits someone monitors daily.
  • Test documentary credits against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
  • Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in trade finance and documentary credits.
  • Set the review interval for documentary credits and who attends.

Session 2Handling a breach of policy on documentary credits properly

  • Establish the boundary of trade finance and documentary credits and record what sits outside it.
  • Confirm reporting on documentary credits reaches the committee that can act on it.
  • Compare the cost of trade finance and documentary credits with the cost of its absence.
  • Map the handovers in documentary credits between functions and secure them.
03

Documentary credits: measurement, models and their assumptions

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Setting a limit on documentary credits that will actually be respected

  • Agree the smallest change to trade finance and documentary credits that would be visibly useful.
  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside documentary credits.
  • Design the exception process for trade finance and documentary credits and require a documented rationale.
  • Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating documentary credits operated as designed.

Session 2What trade finance and documentary credits does to capital and liquidity under stress

  • Check that records of trade finance and documentary credits answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by documentary credits.
  • Verify six months later that changes to trade finance and documentary credits have held.
  • List the assumptions in any model supporting documentary credits and when each was last challenged.
04

Documentary credits: reporting that supports a decision

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on documentary credits starts

  • Agree the indicators that will show whether trade finance and documentary credits is improving.
  • Confirm regulatory reporting on documentary credits is complete, timely and reconciled.
  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of trade finance and documentary credits.
  • Define the trigger that would require documentary credits to be redesigned.

Session 2Stress scenarios for documentary credits that are plausible rather than convenient

  • Assess the capital consumed by trade finance and documentary credits under current and stressed conditions.
  • Anticipate the objections documentary credits will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Review the pricing of trade finance and documentary credits against the risk being assumed.
  • Check that documentary credits still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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