29/10/2014
Dr. Gabriel Huston, CITP|FIBP – Educator & Global Advisor
Dr. Gabriel Huston, CITP®|FIBP®, serves as a Professor at Toronto’s Seneca College School of International Business. He also represents the Batak indigenous people of North…
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15/10/2014
Daniel Rojas, CITP|FIBP – Project Manager
Note: This article has been updated as of December 2018. Daniel Rojas, CITP®|FIBP®, is a Project Manager at Bombardier. Working in their Project Management Office…
10/10/2014
Costs you need to consider for a successful global business financial plan
While these factors are considered when making assessments of risk—in the context of developing a global business financial plan—they should be viewed in terms of the cost of sales or purchases and market competitiveness.
09/09/2014
How to update your supply chain strategy for maximum efficiency
Without an efficient supply chain strategy in place, customers cannot be serviced properly and maximum profits cannot be achieved.
15/08/2014
9 reasons why you should spend more time doing international trade research
Whether or not to become involved in or expand in international trade is a crucial business decision. In today’s highly competitive and global business environment, companies are finding that they must incorporate some form of international trade in order to maintain their level of competitiveness.
08/08/2014
Why skills development is vital to the growth of your global trade career
Ted Benson has over forty years of experience in international trade. He has learned through trial and error, time and again, that skills development is essential to be successful in the industry.
01/08/2014
Top three potential barriers to foreign market entry
Companies entering new markets might face problems or increased costs because of the business environment and the way in which companies operate. For example, marketing services might be prohibitively expensive. The banking system might be undeveloped, and certain payment mechanisms may be unavailable. Letters of credit might be unreliable or difficult to obtain.
23/07/2014
Zeeshanali Fazal, CITP│FIBP — Underwriter and Advisor of Financial Guarantees
Zeeshanali Fazal is an Underwriter and Advisor of Financial Guarantees at Export Development Canada (EDC) in Montreal, Quebec. He was born in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he spent his childhood. Zeeshanali moved to Pakistan in the early 1990s, and by the late 1990s he moved to Canada where he completed his high school, CEGEP and university education in finance.
18/07/2014
The basics of global trade transactions for your imports and exports
A company that has decided to export its products to a new market or to buy from a new supplier in a different country cannot take for granted that the potential transaction(s) will be viable, profitable or provide goods at a price and quality that are competitive. From a financial point of view, a transaction may prove unrealistic if the cost of entering a market is too high, the competition is gruelling, or the price the company needs to charge in the new market is not competitive.
11/07/2014
Making a mid-career turn towards opportunities in international trade
My interest in international trade began as early as in elementary school when my imagination was captured by the evolution of Canada as a trading nation.