Trade finance covers different types of activities including issuing letters of credit, lending, forfaiting, export credit and financing, and factoring. The trade financing process involves several different parties, including the buyer and seller, the trade financier, export credit agencies, and insurers. Trade finance is used when financing is required by buyers and sellers to assist them with the trade cycle funding gap. Buyers and sellers also can also choose to use trade finance as a form of risk mitigation. For this to be effective the financier requires: - Control of the use of funds, Structured Trade Finance A business can grow and develop using structured trade finance. It involves using the collateral of the goods its trading, rather than its own balance sheet or other assets. Structured trade finance is a complex arrangement put in place to ensure a bank can take possession and sell the underlying