Advanced Trade Finance Compliance

Anyone across a bank or financial institution who touches trade finance risk – from operations, relationship management, and product teams handling transactions day to day, to FCC/AML, sanctions, risk, audit, fraud investigations, and legal/compliance professionals who oversee, review, or challenge those decisions.

This advanced course equips trade finance practitioners to manage financial crime compliance and fraud risk within real trade workflows. It focuses on how compliance and fraud issues arise in day-to-day trade finance activity, how practitioners should assess them, and how decisions can be made, escalated and documented in a structured and defensible way.

This eLearning course will include a self-assessment tool to help you prepare for the Certified Trade Finance Practitioner (CTFP) Final Examination if you choose to obtain this Certificate. The passing grade for the Final Examination is set at 70%.

Lesson 1: Financial Crime Compliance in Trade Finance
Lesson 2: Global Standards and Regulatory Landscape
Lesson 3: KYC in Trade Finance Relationships
Lesson 4: TBML Typologies and Transaction Controls
Lesson 5: Managing Sanctions, Embargoes and NPWMD-related Risks
Lesson 6: Fraud in Trade Finance

Nick Turner, Partner with Akrivis Law Group
Nick Turner is a Partner with Akrivis Law Group, advising multinational financial institutions on sanctions, anti-money laundering, and anti-bribery compliance and investigations. He co-developed and taught Sanctions Law and Practice at the University of Hong Kong, co-edited the GIR Practitioners' Guide to Sanctions, and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Pavel Andrle, Secretary to the ICC Banking Commission Czech Republic
Pavel Andrle held senior trade finance roles at HSBC, eBanka, and Ulster Bank, and since 2005 has served as Secretary to the Banking Commission of ICC Czech Republic while running his own training firm across 65 countries. He was a member of the UCP 600 Consulting Group and authored books on documentary credits.

Zolkifli Bidin, trade finance trainer and consultant
Zolkifli Bidin brings over 39 years of banking experience in trade finance, foreign exchange policy, and compliance, including senior roles at Maybank, CIMB Bank, and Bangkok Bank Berhad as VP & Head of Trade Review. Since founding ZB Training & Consultancy in 2018, he has trained banks on TBML detection.