Dear colleagues,

I am currently conducting a study to investigate the implementation of an interbank electronic exchange for trading in international trade finance risk portfolios. The aim of this research is to discover whether bankers engaged in trade finance believe that trade finance risk management can be improved by using an electronic e-exchange to manage trade finance risks. This study forms part of my doctoral thesis under the Doctor of Business Administration degree awarded by the University of Bradford, School of Management.


The questionnaire should take up to 15 minutes to complete and I would be most grateful if you could complete all the questions, to ensure that I can make use of your valuable contribution. If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me on p.a.j.orian@bradford.ac.uk or my supervisor, Dr. Rana Tassabehji at the following address r.tassabehji@bradford.ac.uk. The questionnaire can be accessed by clicking on the following link:


https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FZ9LH22


Your contribution is very valuable to this research and all participants in the survey are assured of confidentiality and shall remain anonymous and no personal identifying information will be collected or used. None of the information you provide will be attributable to you or your organisation as per the University of Bradford’s code of conduct governing research that you will find on the following link:

Ethics Policy and Strategy - University of Bradford


Ethics approval has been granted for this study by the Humanities, Social and Health Sciences Research Ethics Panel at the University of Bradford on 1st November 2011.


Please note that I will be happy to send a summary report of this study to you in return.


I thank you in advance for your time and kind cooperation.


Regards



Paul Orian