Attendance earns 10 LIBF PDUs / CPD hours

Documentary Credits Masterclass: Practical Issues, Risks and Challenges in International Trade and Commodities

Despite increased digitalisation, documentary credits still play a pivotal role in international trade. This intensive seminar, led by John Turnbull, will provide a practical and interactive analysis of regulation, practice and risk in International Trade and Documentary Credits, with particular focus on commodity finance.

This GTR Training event will take place on February 21-22, during GTR Mena Trade & Export Finance Week 2018.

Who should attend?

• Trade, export and commodity finance practitioners
• Corporate bank relationship managers
• Staff within compliance, credit and risk management functions
• Relationship managers within financial institutions
• Documentary credits and trade operations personnel

Meet your trainer

John Turnbull, Director of Certis International is a senior banker and trade finance specialist with 35 years experience of origination, negotiation, structuring, risk management and regulation of the full range of international trade transactions. Formerly joint general manager and global head of structured trade and commodity finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe, John has acted as expert witness in a number of high-profile trade finance legal cases. He was co-chair of the ICC Commission on banking technique and practice’s consulting group on the most recent revision of the UCP, chair of the Association of Foreign Banks Trade Finance Committee, chairman of the ICC UK Banking Committee and member of the ICC Banking Commission Global Financial Crime Committee and of the joint ICC/Wolfsberg Committee. Representative on many national and international trade committees and boards, like the international Energy Credit Association in the USA in the past and, as a current long-standing member, the IECA European committee, he is also a member of the editorial board of GTR magazine.

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