Accessible Credit Risk Tools for Chinese Executives

T3P LIMITED is pleased to advise that the Chinese language (Mandarin Simplified Characters) version of Global Credit Management - an Executive Summary is available.

The Authors are grateful to have had this opportunity to make such key information accessible to Mandarin literate executives and students. The original English text was adapted prior to translation in order to ensure it would be understood in the reader’s context.

This book is ideal for Chinese business executives of all types; Chief Executives (CEOs), Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), Treasurers, Credit Managers, Entrepreneurs starting or running their own businesses, and students of business practice preparing to face the tough challenges of business management.

It has been designed to provide the essential basic information needed to understand payment risk management in a domestic and international setting, with the addition of a practical tool kit covering the essential aspects.

Above all it is easy to read, Dr Jing Zhang commented; "I have enjoyed greatly reading this book as it has presented this complex subject in a very light and lively manner. The authors have summarised the entire world of credit management within an effective length, focusing on the practitioners’ perspective."

Professor Yang commented; "I believe this book should be extremely useful and helpful for Chinese firms and managers to learn about international practices and standards in credit management and improve their competitiveness."

The Hong Kong based magazine Asset Publishing & Research Ltd reported on October 28; “Taiwan and China are the markets that are the least 'credit-friendly' in the region with less than 40% of respondents conducting business-to-business (B2B) sales over credit, a new survey shows.” The result of this research strongly supports the notion that the practical skills and knowledge imparted in this book are urgently needed in China. (http://www.theasset.com.hk)

Click here to read the introductory pages, which have been translated into English to enable you to judge the book's value for yourself; the original Chinese text is also included.

The book (ISBN: 978-988-99586-1-9) consists of 250 pages; unfortunately the Paperback version is out of print so only a PDF electronic format is available. To purchase the electronic version (an eBook) click here.

BarrettWells

Stellar Book Review of Credit Risk Management - The Novel in The Asset Magazine

In the March 2015 edition of The Asset the Assistant Editor, Christoph Kober, reviews Credit Risk Management – The Novel (Part One).

Here is a short extract:

“In The Novel, Wells presents technical concepts in a manner that is enlightening to anyone interested in how oil majors and traders fuel the world economy. In the sometimes covert world of commodities, the book reveals how large oil majors can do business even with nefarious traders and national oil companies with erratic payment patterns.

Practical advice wrapped in lively accounts of how large commodity deals are brokered make the book a helpful guide not only to credit professionals but treasurers and financial directors as well.

But The Novel also has room for fiction. James “Jim” E Cricket, the head of the team of “creditphiles” at ShamOil, fancies more than just collateral when dealing with risky buyers. World peace is what he really strives for. Jim nearly brokers the smooth fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Apartheid in a matter of just a few months.

The Novel recounts some of the most dramatic geopolitical events at the end of the 20th century – which of course proved to be watershed moments for the commodities industries as well. Fast forward two decades and geopolitical hotspots throughout the world again keep businesses on their toes. Although set in the 1990s, the solutions presented by Wells were in fact developed more recently, he says, and their applicability today adds to the book’s relevance.

Wells aims to reach an entirely different group of readers with The Novel – students and graduates undecided where to work. “Younger people looking for a career in finance are drawn to investment banking because of the money it offers. I have always found that working in business is much more exciting because real stuff moves as a result of your actions as a credit specialist. There are very few finance programmes that give students exposure to credit risk management in their courses. I hope The Novel can add to this education and show that managing customer and supplier risk in a real business is an exciting career opportunity.”

Credit Risk Management – The Novel, Part One (2013) is published by T3P LIMITED and available for purchase at Amazon.
ISBN: 978-0-9576279-2-5, 104 pages

To read the whole Book Review click: www.t3plimited.com/TAMar2015TheNovelReviewCK.pdf

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Real Businesses - The Success Paradox

Inventories grow
Receivables thrive
Payables vegetate
Liquidity withers

Frozen Working Capital
Inventory minus Payables
Plus Receivables
Sucks up cash
Locks it out of reach
It is a Greedy Beast

Business growth is Success
But it feeds the Greedy Beast
Beware the spectre of Liquidity Risk
The bedfellow of Bankruptcy

Reduce inventory days
Increase payable terms
Shrink receivable days
Release oodles of loot
Rein in the Greedy Brute

List of the 15 Banking Groups Now Live on BPO

This list includes 6 of the top 15 Trade banks (based on Cat 7 traffic)

ANZ - Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
Bank of China
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Bangkok Bank
BNP Paribas
China CITIC Bank
CIMB - Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad
Commerzbank
Hua Nan Bank (Head Office: Taipei )
Korea Exchange Bank ( KEB )
Maybank - Malayan Banking Berhad
Siam Commercial Bank ( SCB Thailand )
Standard Chartered Bank ( SCB )
Türkiye Is Bankasi ( Isbank )
UniCredit

Information as at October 16, 2014 supplied by SWIFT

Plenty of banks to turn to for this service if yours is a laggard.

Ron Wells

Hedging and Liquidity Risk

A discussion (English-Chinese) in relation to the management of future price risk, was presented in Shanghai, to an invited audience of EMBA/MBA and other Business Executives. The inter-active presentation was followed by an enlightening discussion of Risk Management topics related to dealing with corporate customers and suppliers, commodity traders, banks and brokers.

One Business Executive and MBA Student commented:

‘Hedging and liquidity risk is still rather a new topic to most of businessmen and managers in China, except those working in banking and the other financial institutions. So your lecture will urge those managers, who want to grow their business in a healthier way, to learn more about the risk management tools. Simultaneously, your lecture will also raise awareness of what an important role credibility plays for a company in the market, which I think is even more important in China.’

View the presentation at:

http://www.barrettwells.com/LiquidityRiskHedgingSHAug2010encn.pdf

See a Related Article:

Hedging Future Commodity Price Risk Can Damage Your Company’s Liquidity:
Hedging future commodity price risk is something to consider, only if you guard against the chance that the outcome could damage your company’s liquidity and/or its competitive position. The English version of this article is available at: http://www.barrettwells.co.uk/liquidity.html

To obtain a copy of the Chinese version of the article click: http://www.barrettwells.co.uk/HedgingLiquidityRiskMar2010cn.pdf

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