Trade Finance Policy
This Trade Finance Policy addresses how a bank, credit union, fintech company, or other type of financial institution offers its commercial customers trade finance services, such as letters of credit, guarantees, acceptances, open account financing, other specialized trade financing, financial supply chain solutions, prepayment, advising, trade collections, bank-to-bank reimbursement services, insourcing and outsourcing trade processing, and hedging services.
Table of Contents
- Purpose and Contents – Topic 1
- Policy Statement – Topic 2
- Definitions – Topic 3
- Risk Management – Topic 4
- Trade Finance Business Line Overview – Topic 5
- Trade Services Overview – Topic 6
- Program Administration – Topic 7
- Standards and Underwriting – Topic 8
- Accounting – Topic 9
- Audit Policy – Topic 10
- Staff Training – Topic 11
- Retention of Documentation – Topic 12
Recent updates to this product:
05/18/26 Update
FDIC FIL-13-2026 – Agencies Issue Final Rule to Prohibit Use of Reputation Risk by Regulators and OCC Bulletin 2026-12 – Prohibition on Use of Reputation Risk by Regulators: Final Rule
This Trade Finance Policy (approximately 44 pages) is available to purchase from BankPolicies.com in Microsoft® Word format.
NOTE: The complete contents of this product are also included in the Commercial Loan Policy.
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