International Trade, Risk & Trade Finance: A Practical Guide
The opportunities, the risks, and the financial instruments that make cross-border trade work — without keeping you up at night.
Whether you're a first-time exporter or running an established international trading business, the financial and commercial risks of cross-border trade are often underestimated and underprepared for.
This guide, written by Tim Burden, a former UK Export Finance banker with nearly a decade of experience structuring international trade deals, covers everything from the risk ladder to Letters of Credit, trade finance, bonds and guarantees, and three real-world case studies showing how these instruments work in practice.
It's written for UK importers and exporters. It's practical, jargon-free, and free to download.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
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Why trade internationally — and the benefit most businesses overlook
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The five risk categories every exporter should price in
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How payment terms shift risk between buyer and seller
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Letters of Credit vs documentary collections — when to use which
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Bank bonds and guarantees explained
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How trade finance bridges the working capital gap
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Three anonymised real-world deal scenarios
