Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Warfield, Gerald

Description

1. xiii, 478 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This newly revised and updated Fourth Edition includes the latest techniques and vehicles for financing all types of export and import operations. Here is the latest information on emerging markets, new hedging techniques, particular areas of risk for import and export, recent regulations governing documentary credit, and new financing rules.
2. Export-Import Financing covers a wide range of topics, from foreign trade definitions, bank guarantees, and risk management, to shipping and collection, and the latest legislation.
3. Export-Import Financing, Fourth Edition, contains invaluable information on banking deregulation, international bank custody operations, bank involvement in insurance, changes in the maritime industry, and much more.
4. Written and organized for maximum clarity and accessibility, this comprehensive volume includes the roles of commercial banks, private institutions, and governments in export-import financing, and how they interact; how transactions are executed, including the role of foreign exchange and techniques for hedging; the tools, techniques, and vehicles for financing all types of international trade, from letters of credit to bankers' acceptances.
5. Like its distinguished predecessors, Export-Import Financing, Fourth Edition, has been designed for practical use. Numerous samples of the various instruments and forms used in daily financial and banking operations are included, from sales contracts to six different types of credit and risk analysis. This indispensable volume has the detailed information you need to stay abreast of the latest developments in the changing world of international commerce.

Series statement

1. Wiley frontiers in finance series

Uniform title

1. Wiley frontiers in finance.

Subject

1. Exports -- United States -- Finance
2. Imports -- United States -- Finance
3. Negotiable instruments -- United States

Contents

1. Pt. 1. Facilities, Institutions, and Services. 1. The World of International Financing and Banking. 2. Commercial Banks in the United States and Abroad. 3. Other Private Institutions. 4. U.S. Government and International Financial Institutions. 5. Foreign Credit Insurance -- Pt. 2. Executing the Transactions. 6. The Sales Contract. 7. Foreign Exchange Operations. 8. Shipping and Collection. 9. Ocean Marine and Air Cargo Insurance -- Pt. 3. Financing Techniques and Vehicles. 10. Financing Techniques. 11. Eurocurrency. 12. Foreign Collections. 13. Letters of Credit - Procedures. 14. Letters of Credit - Types and Uses. 15. Recent Innovations. App 1: The Export Trading Company Act of 1982 -- App 2: Export Credit Insurers of Major Countries -- App 3: Revised American Foreign Trade Definitions -- App 4: Programs of the Export-Import Bank of the United States -- App 5: Guide to Federal Reserve Regulations.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Includes index.