Complete Trade Finance Practitioner Course
 

Master Letters of Credit, Bank Guarantees, Trade Loans & Supply Chain Finance - Built for Real World
What you'll learn
Navigate the full TF product universe - documentary trade, trade loans, guarantees, and supply chain finance
Apply a reusable deal structuring framework to any trade transaction from the bank's perspective
Identify trade finance risks - credit, documentary, fraud, AML, and sanctions - and how banks manage them
Break down the full SCF spectrum: factoring, reverse factoring, deep-tier SCF, and dynamic discounting
Explain how Letters of Credit work end-to-end and distinguish between key LC types and their use cases
Structure Bank Guarantees and Standby LCs: types, trigger mechanics, pricing, and real-world applications
Analyse import and export trade loans - including trust receipts, invoice financing, and LC discounting
Requirements
No prior trade finance experience required - the course builds from first principles
A basic understanding of how banks or businesses operate is helpful but not mandatory
Suitable for anyone with 0-5 years in banking, corporate finance, treasury, or international trade
Description
Trade finance is one of the most technical, commercially rich disciplines in banking - and one of the hardest to learn without sitting beside someone who's actually done it.
This course changes that.
Built with hands-on experience structuring and credit-approving trade finance facilities across corporate and financial institution clients, the Complete Trade Finance Practitioner Course takes you from first principles to live deal mechanics - in 31 lectures across 6 modules.
What you'll master
Every major trade finance product - Letters of Credit (sight, usance, UPAS, transferable, back-to-back), Bank Guarantees, Standby LCs, Trust Receipts, Export Invoice Loans, Factoring, Reverse Factoring, and Deep-Tier Supply Chain Finance. You'll learn how each product is structured, priced, credit-approved, and risk-managed - not in theory, but the way a desk banker actually thinks about it.
Beyond product knowledge, you'll develop a risk literacy that covers credit risk, country risk (sovereign ceiling, transfer and convertibility risk), documentary fraud, and the KYC, AML and sanctions compliance framework that every trade banker operates within.
You'll also build the commercial judgement to diagnose a client's problem, select the right structure, and defend it to a credit committee.
Course structure
6 modules. 31 lectures. Approximately 6 hours of content.
- Module 1 - Introduction: what trade finance is, how international trade works, and the complete product map
- Module 2 - Documentary Trade: Letters of Credit, UCP 600, Bank Guarantees, and SBLCs
- Module 3 - Trade Loans: import and export financing, pricing methodology, and the credit approval process
- Module 4 - Supply Chain Finance: factoring, reverse factoring, deep-tier SCF, and an end-to-end case study
- Module 5 - Risk & Compliance: credit and country risk, documentary fraud, KYC, AML, and sanctions
- Module 6 - Real World Practice: ESG trade finance, the ecosystem, deal structuring mindset, and the future of the discipline
Who this is for
Banking graduates, relationship managers, trade finance analysts, credit officers, corporate treasury professionals, and finance students who want practitioner-grade knowledge - not textbook theory. Whether you're entering banking or transitioning into trade finance from another product area, this is your end-to-end foundation.
Every lecture is grounded in real transaction experience. No filler. Built for the real world.
Who this course is for
Bank new joiners in trade, transaction, or corporate banking who need to build product knowledge fast
Career switchers moving into trade finance, treasury, or transaction banking from other finance roles
Corporate treasury, procurement, and finance professionals who work with banks and want to understand the other side of the table
Trade operations staff handling LCs, bank guarantees, or SCF transactions day-to-day
Finance graduates and students targeting careers in trade finance or transaction banking