International Trade Finance Archives

04/11/2025

CITP Spotlight: Kingsley Borello, CEO & Founder of TradeToWorld Marketplace

For Kingsley Borello, international trade has been more than just a career path, it’s been a calling since childhood. His earliest memories are of peering…

09/05/2025

How to use trade finance tools to gain flexibility during trade policy upheaval

Now that new tariffs have taken effect, a big question being asked is – “Who’s paying them?” Small businesses in the U.S. have reportedly been…

13/11/2024

CITP Spotlight: Manpreet Kaur – Trade Credit Insurance Underwriter, Intact

Manpreet Kaur’s career in international business brought her from marketing vehicles like tractors and cars to managing risk in international trade financing. When her career…

05/10/2022

Getting paid: 4 trade finance instruments you can use to reduce your risk

While there are many risks inherent in international trade finance, there are also numerous methods of settlement in international trade available to exporters and importers to manage and mitigate risks. Here are the 4 most common trade finance instruments you can use.

11/08/2022

3 new CITPs in international finance talk about their career success

Three CITP in international finance share how their FITTskills coursework and CITP designation has helped them find more opportunity and meaning in their already successful careers in international finance.

13/04/2022

Identify and mitigate the 4 types of financial risk: commercial risk, foreign currency risk, country risk, and bank risk

Trade finance instruments and practices are designed to assist importers and exporters with effective mitigation techniques for all types of financial risk. The risks, which can be mitigated through appropriately structured trade finance instruments or services, include: commercial risk, foreign currency risk, country risk, and bank risk.