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Intended for use by anyone involved in international sales, finance, shipping and administration, or for those studying for academic or professional qualifications in international trade, The Handbook of International Trade and Finance provides a full explanation of the key finance areas of international trade ? including risk management, international payments and currency management. At the same time, it provides the essential information necessary to help you to reduce risks and improve cash flow, identify the most competitive finance alternatives, structure the best payment terms, and minimize finance and transaction costs.

Revised and updated for this second edition, coverage includes information on:

? trade risks and risk assessment
? methods of payment
? bonds, guarantees and standby letters of credit
? currency risk management
? export credit insurance
? trade finance
? structured trade finance
? terms of payment

For any business, regardless of size and business sector, the book also describes the negotiating process from the perspectives of both the buyer and the seller ? giving you valuable insight into the complete financing process. For students, or for those studying for a professional qualification in this sector, The Handbook of International Trade and Finance will prove an indispensable reference source that gives a complete and thorough assessment of all the issues involved in constructing, financing, managing and completing a cross-border transaction.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Kogan Page; Second Edition edition (January 28, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074946397X
• ISBN-13: 978-0749463977
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

Customer Reviews

Get savvy with Grath?s handbook on financial regimes in world markets

?January 1, 2009

By Phillip Taylor

The subject of `finance? often strikes fear into the hearts of vulnerable people (traders) because they are wary and afraid of the power it wields. Andres Grath dispels such fears with his excellent addition to the international trade and finance bookshelf, twenty years since the original handbook was first published.

The key to understanding how this global industry now works is with the opening words where Grath writes ?an international trade transaction, no matter how straightforward it may seem at the start, is not completed until delivery takes place? and he then examines the occasions when things might go wrong.

There are eight chapters covering these areas: trade risks and risk assessment; methods of payment; bonds, guarantees and standby letters of credit; currency risk management; export credit insurance; trade finance; structured trade finance; and terms of payment.

It is a handbook I would like to have read before I completed the international trade module of my Bar examinations because it gives valuable information for businesses, describing the negotiating process from the perspectives of both the buyer and the seller (who become my clients when there is a dispute).

Grath succeeds in giving a valuable insight into the complete financing process for the busy professional taken from his experience of major European financial institutions. There is a useful glossary at the back and a small index although no web links are given. This handbook is a practical reference guide for everyday use and I found his tables, diagrams, and practical working examples of great help in understanding the key finance areas of international trade in the twenty-first century, and the direction which the global finance markets now appear to be taking.

The handbook is primarily of significant benefit to all international traders as they expand their business opportunities and enter new global markets. It is also a work which educates all new to the industry, and has the facility of easy use for the expert professional, and the newcomer to banks and other trade-related institutions in all parts of the world today.

The new edition by Kogan Page is to be enthusiastically welcomed as global markets and transactions dominate the centre stage of new trading outlets, and the problem of payments continues to unravel to a new generation of financiers with all its attendant difficulties.

An invaluable coverage no business library should be without

?November 9, 2008

By Midwest Book Review

Any college-level business library strong in international sales or administration as well as business administrators operating overseas needs THE HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE, a survey covering trade risks, payments, currency risk, trade finance and more. All businesses no matter what size or type will benefit from a title covering the entire negotiating process on both buyer and seller parts. Anders Grath has over 25 years experience in international trade and finance, so this makes for an invaluable coverage no business library should be without.

Good survey of trade finance

?September 8, 2010

By B. McAllister

I was new to trade finance when I purchased this book. My boss, liked the book enough to also buy a copy for his reference library. Nothing over-the-top or overwhelming. Solid overview of important elements of trade finance. Good complement to the Euromoney trade finance course (5-day session) taught by Graham Bull.

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