Book description
Introduction to International Trade Finance covers the complete cycle of international trade and explains the roles of the specialist operators.Introduction to International Trade Finance aims to:
*Guide the reader through every phase of typical trade transactions, examining in detail the relationships between the various parties involved and explaining the facilities employed.
*Demonstrate the range of banking instruments and techniques available to exporters and importers which enable them to enter into contracts, confident that whichever method of settlement they agree upon can be provided with the minimum of risk.
*Provide a firm understanding of when to apply a particular form of finance, what risks are involved and how they can be counteracted
*Inspired from the basic entry level training courses that have been developed by major international banks worldwide.
*Will enable MSc Finance students, MBA students and those already in the finance profession to gain an understanding of the basic information and principles underlying the topic under discussion
*Questions with answers, study topics, practical "real world" examples and text with an extensive bibliography and references ensure learning outcomes can be immediately applied
Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface (1/2)
- Preface (2/2)
- 1 Principal players
- 2 Cross-border trading
- 3 Bills for collection
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4 The irrevocable documentary credit
- Parties to a documentary credit
- Constructing the credit
- Issuing the credit
- Documents required under documentary credits
- Transport documents (1/2)
- Transport documents (2/2)
- Confirmation of a documentary credit
- Silent confirmation
- Amendments to the terms of an irrevocable credit
- Recourse
- Handling discrepant documents
- Relevant articles of UCP500 (1/2)
- Relevant articles of UCP500 (2/2)
- 5 Guarantees
- 6 Insurance
- 7 Foreign exchange risk
- 8 Special types of credits
- 9 Financing
- 10 Forfaiting
- 11 Electronic commerce for international trade settlement
- 12 Prevention of fraud in international trade
- Appendix 1: Trade finance quiz
- Appendix 2: Guide to exporters and importers
- Appendix 3: Suggested checklist for beneficiaries when preparing documents for presentation under a documentary credit
- Appendix 4: Answers to Gdanski Construct SA Case Study
- Appendix 5: Answers to Quiz
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index (1/2)
- Index (2/2)
Product information
- Title: Finance of International Trade
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2003
- Publisher(s): Butterworth-Heinemann
- ISBN: 9780080470009
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