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Trade finance signifies financing for trade, and it concerns both domestic and international trade transactions. A trade transaction requires a seller of goods and services as well as a buyer. Various intermediaries such as banks and financial institutions can facilitate these transactions by financing the trade. (Wikipedia)

A trade finance transaction in which a bilateral or syndicated loan facility is made available to a borrower (the trader). The trader uses the loan to prepay for goods (typically a commodity) to be supplied to it by the producer of those goods under an export contract between the producer as seller and the trader as buyer. (Practical Law)

Trade finance transactions can be straightforward or complex, ranging from the issue of a letter of credit (documentary credit) to ensure a seller is paid under a contract for the sale of goods to a structured financing involving a secured syndicated facility to finance the production, export and sale of a commodity to buyers around the globe. (Practical Law)