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Project Finance

In recent years project finance has become an increasingly important financing tool. Major projects however create a variety of risks that need to be understood, evaluated and managed. In the area of project finance, we provide a core programme supplemented by a range of specialist modules. By attending our courses, organised on an in-house basis specifically for your organisation, your people will be well placed to work successfully and profitability in the business of project finance.

Topics covered in the core modules include the following examples.  However, we can tailor any relevant course in the project finance area for you.  Please contact us for more information.

• Factors that drive the demand for project finance
• Identify the commercial objectives of the various parties involved in financing a project
• Uses and abuses of financial models
• Capital structuring issues and debt structuring
• Identifying and managing FX, interest and commodity exposures
• Typical contractual structures
• Risk mitigation techniques
• Identifying problem exposures
• Financial modelling for project finance
• PPP and PFI
• Identifying and managing problem projects

Trade and Export Finance

• Risk and mitigants in trade and export finance
• Key trade and export finance products and their features
• Structuring trade finance transactions
• Use of credit insurers including export credit agencies
• Structured trade and commodity finance
• Securitisation of trade and export receivables
• Key issues in trade finance today
• Documentary credits
• Forfaiting and factoring
• Short term credit insurance
• Countertrade techniques
• Fraud in trade and commodity finance - common problem areas