Key Risks in Trade Finance
In this video, Aidan breaks down the credit risk focus of trade finance, and the importance of their management. This includes settlement risk, performance risk, and logistics risk.
Overview
This provides a constructive framework for Credit Managers to use in assessing transactional trade and commodity trade finance deals that facilitates transparency, a more informed risk assessment, and ensures that what really matters is considered.
Key learning objectives:
Define and identify how performance, settlement and logistics risk should be managed
What constitutes a ‘delivery’?
What might prevent the seller from performing?
Summary
Expert
Aidan Applegarth
Aidan spent some 30 years building up Trade and Commodity Finance (TCF) businesses for banks in the UK, Europe and Asia. He is now a consultant providing training and practical guidance to banks and other lenders wishing to develop a TCF proposition and also advises a number of Trade Finance funds on Credit and Operational Risk.
