Effective and Innovative 2016 - Effective and Innovative Uses for Credit Insurance-By Compliance Global Inc

Overview:
Get a handle on how to use business credit insurance policy by analyzing real-life case studies. Attendees will learn how insurers are increasing the flexibility of the protection they offer and the risks they cover.
Why Should You Attend:
This webinar will explore recent innovations in types of coverage available, including key-account and single-buyer insurance, differences between named-buyer (European-style) and excess-of-loss (American-style) policies, and the relative merits of policies with cancellable limits and those with non-cancellable limits.
In particular, the presenter will review situations where credit insurance was used by companies with four varied objectives: risk containment, improved credit decisioning, sales expansion, and increased financing.
Areas Covered in this Webinar:
What Trade Credit Insurance Is
Risks Covered (and Not Covered)
Principles of Credit Insurance
Types of Credit Insurance Policies
Learning Objectives:
Policy Variables: Designing a Policy to Suit Your Needs
Things That Go Wrong and How to Avoid Them
How Credit Insurance Compares with Other Risk Mitigation Techniques
Who Will Benefit:
Attorneys
Credit and Collection Managers
Presidents
Vice Presidents
Business Owners
Managers
Insurance Professionals
Lending Professionals
Accountants
Bankers
Speaker Profile:
Walter (Buddy) Baker brings more than 35 years of experience in international trade finance to his current position as Vice President and head of Global Trade Solutions Delivery for Fifth Third Bank. Fifth Third is one of the 20 largest banks in the US and provides a full range of risk mitigation and financing products for exporters and importers. His professional experience includes earlier stints with Atradius Trade Credit Insurance, ABN AMRO Bank, Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, and The First National Bank of Chicago.
Mr. Baker is a recognized expert in trade finance and author of numerous magazine articles and the books Users’ Handbook to Documentary Credits under UCP600, Documentary Payments & Short-Term Trade Finance, and The Regulatory Environment of Letters of Credit and Trade Finance. He owns the consulting firm Global Trade Risk Management Strategies, which specializes in educational training, and makes frequent presentations for national associations of exporters, importers, bankers, and lawyers.
As a member of the National Letter of Credit Committee of the Bankers’ Association for Finance and Trade, the Advisory Council of the Institute for International Banking Law and Practice, and the Council for International Standby Practices, Mr. Baker is actively involved in establishing national and worldwide standard practices for letters of credit.
He participated in the most recent revision of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (referred to as “UCP600”), contributed to the creation of the official ICC guide for examining letter of credit documents, called the International Standard Banking Practices for the Examination of Documents under Documentary Credits, and served on the drafting committees for the International Standby Practices (“ISP98”) and Article 5 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
He is also on the Board of Directors of the Association of International Credit and Trade Finance Professionals (“ICTF”), a multinational association of export credit managers.