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Overview
Recent high profile fraud cases involving commodity financing highlights the challenges faced by financial institutions in financing commodity trades.
Given the diversity, complexity and substantial size of commodity trades, professionals involved in the commodity trading and financing value chain need to possess specialised knowledge to manage their risk exposures and avoid huge losses.
About the course
Participants will learn to identify and assess potential risks, formulate mitigation and be cognizant of the legal environment and documentary requirements.
The Structured Trade and Commodity Finance certification course at Singapore Management University consists of 6 modules. The program has been enhanced to reflect the current business environment. Classes are delivered using a combination of lectures and case discussions to drive home key learning points.
Programme Structure
Modules include:
- An Insight into Commodity Trading Firms from a Financing Perspective
- Banking Relationships and Transactional Financing of Commodities
- Borrowing Base Lending
- Structured Finance
- Trade Credit Insurance
- Commodity Price Risk Management
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 6 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
- each module has its own intakes
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Finance Risk Management View 37 other Short Courses in Finance in SingaporeAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
Who should attend:
- Senior management in corporate lending looking into structured trade finance business
- Relationship managers and bankers who advise trading and commodity companies
- Trade finance specialists, account/ marketing managers engaged in structuring trade financing deals
- Commodity traders who are keen to learn the financing aspects of commodity trades
- Corporate treasurers, finance directors in trading and commodity companies
- Professionals in middle office functions such as credit, risk, audit and operations, responsible for ensuring proper execution, management and financing of commodity trades
This is an advanced level course. Participants are required to have a good working knowledge of traditional trade financing such as Incoterms, trade documentations, documentary collection/ credit and trade financing instruments such as bills of exchange, letters of credit, demand guarantees etc.
Tuition Fee
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International
6540 SGD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6540 SGD for the full programme during 6 days. -
National
1962 SGD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1962 SGD for the full programme during 6 days.
- Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old: $762
Living costs for Singapore
1878 - 3880 SGD /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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