Chapter 8: Inside The Value Chain
This chapter looks at the reasons why investing in trade finance is safer than ever and starts with the crucial aspect of value-chain financing including which parts of the value chain are worth investing in.
Chapter 7: Factoring and Reverse Factoring
Trade finance can be split into two broad groups: the high-quantity/low-value transactions with standard templates and highly automated processes, and the tailored transactions in our sector that require personal attention to undertake the individual business necessities.
Chapter 6: Trade Track Record Analysis
Whether you invest in stocks, bonds or real estate, the track record of the asset class provides comfort. This chapter deals with the track record of trade finance: how are transactions carried out and how do they benefit both parties? We also discuss the tenor of a trade transaction and why it is relevant.
Chapter 5: 007 or Trade Espionage and Villainy
With regular repeats of financial crises over the years, each asset class has its controversies, gossip and juicy stories. Let’s peek at the dark side of the trade-finance industry.
Chapter 4: Trade Legality
Investments in any asset class are executed within a framework of local law and regulations. Chapter four provides an understanding of how to carry out transactions swiftly, even complicated ones.
Chapter 3: Clarity Breeds Confidence
This chapter will take you through the processes of how to deal with due diligence, trade-finance transactions, and most importantly, how to analyse the risks involved and how to mitigate them.
Chapter 2: Inside Trade Financing
Trade financing involves a chain of elements and requires significant amounts of capital. That might sound a bit risky. Yet trade finance is one of the most secure forms of investments even during stock-market turmoil. This chapter will discuss this apparent contradiction.
Chapter 1: The Evolution of Trade Finance
Since the nineteenth century, the financial world has witnessed many crises and events of lesser magnitude that have changed how the financial ecosystem works. This chapter highlights and discusses some of the significant past events, their implications for trade finance and how this asset class built the foundation for the fortunes of many financial institutions.
