BAFT’s Certificate in Transaction Risk for Trade Professionals (CTRT) is targeted towards sales and other trade professionals to help in identifying prospect companies and determine which trade products are appropriate for each of them. The CTRT is also highly relevant for other professionals involved in assessing and managing various risks associated with trade transactions. This risk certificate is also helpful for trade professionals and bankers with under 3 years of experience who have not yet received training in trade and trade products specifically related to risk management

Topics Covered: includes customer onboarding, documentation, and types of risk including trade finance, compliance, operational, credit, reputational, jurisdictional, product, and legal

Who Should Attend: Sales and Product Managers, Relationship Managers, Credit and Compliance Officers Credit, Compliance, and other risk officers. Including, Associates, Analysts, Interns, and new hires, involved in financing trade.

What You Will Learn: Participants will gain a high-level understanding of the key transaction risks associated with trade products including credit, operational, reputational, compliance, and jurisdictional. Participants will also learn about common industry terminology as well as apply their learning to an end-to-end trade transaction case study between the US an d Vietnam from the point of view of the importer, exporter and bank counterparties. Finally, students will understand how to mitigate such risks with common product sets available to the bank.

Why This Certification:

• Only course dedicated to all areas of risks associated with trade transactions including 5 C’s of credit
• Increase the speed of on-boarding and training in a fast paced banking environment
• CTR has global application and is benchmark training for the entire trade industry

• 5 Courses
• Program Duration: Approximately 7 Hours, self paced
• Level: Introductory – Mid Level knowledge

Comprising 5 courses, the industry-validated certificate was developed by a group of leading transaction banking experts from BAFT’s global community. Each course has been tailor-made to develop the skills needed to walk away with an understanding of the all types of transaction risks related to trade and how to a banker would choose products to mitigate them.