International Trade Finance (a full course in four parts)

This course has full CPE accreditation.

The course provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding all aspects of International Trade Finance in a global context, covering the key principles, concepts, infrastructures, practices, issues, and current developments.

Although the full course is divided into four parts, which together form a complete picture of international trade, its various instruments, its operations and its financing, each part may be
studied as a stand-alone unit.

This course will be of especial interest to banking, business, and import/export professionals who wish to expand their knowledge base as well as enhance their expertise and advance their careers in
or gain a deeper understanding of the international trade finance arena.

Part 1 - Trade Finance Instruments - CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Part 2 - Payment Instruments - CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Part 3 - International Payment Systems - CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Part 4 - Supply Chain Finance - CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

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World's big banks set to be sued in London over forex rigging

From The Independent –

“The world’s biggest banks face being pursued through the UK civil courts this autumn for billions of pounds in compensation payments for the actions of its traders in rigging foreign exchange rates.

Five multinational banks – which include Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC – agreed this week to pay off aggrieved investors in order to settle a class action brought in New York.

They joined four other global banks that settled earlier in the year. The total compensation pledged to investors, which are made up of hedge funds and pension funds, has now reached $2bn, according to Hausfeld, the law firm that brought the case on behalf of the investors.”

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BoE archives reveal little known lesson from the 1974 failure of Herstatt Bank

From Bank Underground –

“In June of 1974, a small German bank, Herstatt Bank, failed. While the bank itself was not large, its failure became synonymous with fx settlement risk, and its lessons served as the impetus for work over the subsequent three decades to implement real-time settlement systems now used the world over. Documents from the Bank of England’s Archive shed light on a lesser known aspect of Herstatt’s failure – the chain reaction it caused across financial centres as banks in different countries delayed settling their payments to each other. The lesson for policymakers today to grapple with is: when a bank fails, could we still expect surviving banks to delay making payments, with a potential chain reaction in the payment system?

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Banks brace for more foreign exchange rigging exposure as civil lawsuits emerge

From YAHOO! Finance –

“Class-action cases are expected to follow vast fines for manipulating currency benchmarks.

Banks are bracing for hundreds of millions of pounds in new claims for foreign exchange manipulation from class-action lawsuits triggered by last week’s vast market rigging fines .

Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and four other banks were ordered on Wednesday to pay $6bn (£3.84bn) by UK and US authorities.

The Barclays penalty represents the biggest bank fine in British history.

The regulators, detailing how traders gathered in chatrooms using monikers such as “The Cartel” and “Coiled cobra” to rig the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market, also forced the banks to plead guilty to criminal charges.

Lawyers say that the fines, as well as an investigation from the European Commission, could be a springboard to damaging civil litigation in the UK and Europe.”

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