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Provides an array of professional business and financial training services that stem from improving a corporate's treasury workflow —all the way to efficient, finance training programs.

Course Overview

"GTB Trade Finance (Level 5)" offers an advanced exploration of trade finance processes and dynamics, focusing on export procedures, correspondent banking, financing techniques, supply and value chains, commodities financing, due diligence, and innovations in price risk management.

Learning Outcome

Define main processes and dynamics of export.

Identify main functions, limits, banking concepts of correspondents.

Highlight currency risks of payments.

List main correspondent banking products such as: Customs Requirements and Customs Entries.

Course Outline

  • What is an Export
  • The Export Process
  • Exporting Stages
  • Customs Process and Challenge

  • Correspondent Banking Concept
  • Correspondent Functions
  • Correspondent Limits

  • Third Party Correspondent Banks
  • Nested Correspondent Banking
  • Anonymous Accounts
  • Shell Banks


  • Value Chain
  • Risks, Mitigants and Controls
  • Upstream, Midstream and Downstream
  • Pre-financing, Pre-Payment and Tolling Structures
  • Country Risks
  • Counterparty Risks
  • Bank Risks

  • Inventory Finance
  • Borrowing Base
  • Warehouse Finance
  • Repurchase Agreements
  • Commodity Contracts
  • Commodity Flows

  • Risk-based approach
  • Assessing Key Risks
  • Key Risk Mitigants

  • Blockchain
  • Machine Learning
  • Price Risk Management
  • Cash and Future Markets
  • Hedge Contracts
  • Bank and Customer Requirements

Who Should Attend

Trade finance professionals seeking advanced knowledge and skills=Bankers specializing in global transaction banking (GTB)=Financial analysts focusing on trade and export finance=Risk managers and compliance officers in trade finance departments=Business owners and entrepreneurs involved in international trade