Pitfalls and Remedies in International Trade
When: 05 October 2025 to 10 October 2025.
Where: Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa – Ascot, Berkshire
Pitfalls and Remedies in International Trade:
Five-day course at Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa – Ascot, Berkshire
Course aims and benefits
The IMB Trading Course is in its 37th year and widely acknowledged for its unique and practical approach in identifying and tackling potential pitfalls faced by those involved in international trade.
This fully residential intensive course has established itself as an essential date in the calendar of those responsible for managing and avoiding risk in today’s trading environment. The course is designed for senior/middle managers in trading houses, banks, shipping companies, insurance companies with an interest in international trade.
Delegates will acquire an understanding of international trading problems including financing, insurance and shipping contracts. Recent developments will be analysed including a detailed examination of the manipulation of the documentary credit system, fraud and financial crime in trade finance, charter party failure and cargo abandonment at intermediate ports.
The course is heavily based on real-life case studies and draws on the considerable expertise of the IMB in preventing international trading problems.
Why attend the course?
- The changing face of trade finance fraud. Are your due diligence measures effective?
- How can you reduce risk by negotiating effective contract terms?
- What are the major vulnerabilities in the transportation chain?
- Why do charterparties fail? What can be done to prevent charterparty breakdowns?
- What action do you take when your cargo and / or vessel does not arrive at the discharge port?
- Who do you turn to when problems arise?
- What are the legal remedies that are practical and available?
- A Certificate of Qualification will be awarded at the conclusion of the course
Who should attend?
The course is for senior/middle managers in trading houses, banks, shipping companies, insurance companies with an interest in international trade. The ideal participant will be engaged ‘hands-on’ within their organisation on a day-to-day basis.
In past years, the Annual IMB Trading Course has been attended by delegates from organisations based in over thirty different countries a small sample of which include :-
- ABN Amro Bank NV, Amsterdam
- Agrocorp International Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Bank Al Habib, Kuala Lumpur
- Bank of China, London
- Banque Cantonale de Geneve
- Barclays Corporate, London
- BIC-BRED (Suisse) SA
- BNP Paribas Fortis
- PT. Bank Negara Indonesia (PERSERO), Jakarta
- BP Oil International Ltd
- Cal Bank Ltd, Accra
- Central Bank of Jordan, Amman
- Central Bank of Nigeria, Lagos
- Citibank, London
- Credit Suisse, Zurich & Geneva
- Europe Arab Bank, London
- FIMBank plc, Malta
- First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abu Dhabi
- First Bank of Nigeria, London
- Ghana International Bank, London
- Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
- Helm A.G., Hamburg
- HSBC Deutschland
- ING Bank, Amsterdam & Rotterdam
- Khimji Ramdas LLC, Muscat
- Malaysian International Shipping Corporation, Kuala Lumpur
- Munich Reinsurance, Munich
- National Maritime Authority, Lagos
- Natixis, Nantes
- New India Insurance Co. Ltd., Mumbai
- PEC Limited, New Delhi
- Rabobank International, London & Utrecht
- Standard Chartered Bank, London
- Swedish P & I Club, Gothenburg
- Swiss Re, Zurich
- Tilleke & Gibbins, Bangkok
- Tradewinds Finance, Monchengladbach
PDU/CPD Information
CDCS®, CSDG®, CSCF® and CTFC® holders attending will earn 18 PDU/CPD points towards recertification
Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa, Ascot, Berkshire, UK
This fully residential course will be held at the conference centre of the luxury four-star Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa. Located just 30 minutes from London Heathrow, the hotel is one of the most exclusive conference and meeting venues in Berkshire.
The course is intended to be intensive both socially and academically and a social programme will be available to enable participants to get to know one another.
The hotel also boasts extensive recreational facilities including an indoor swimming pool, state of the art health, spa and fitness facilities.
