Your EduDelphi CSDG course: Live teaching, recordings, an AI-supported LMS, practical guarantee documents, multiple mocks and trainer feedback.
Official qualification: LIBF registration and assessment are separate from EduDelphi tuition.
CSDG Course at a Glance
Prepare for CSDG in Singapore with specialist faculty, practical guarantee documents and a clear route from learning the rules to applying them under exam conditions.
What is CSDG?
CSDG stands for Certificate for Specialists in Demand Guarantees. It is a LIBF Level 4 qualification focused on demand guarantees, relevant standby-credit principles, the parties’ obligations and the examination of demands.
EduDelphi provides teaching, resources and exam preparation. LIBF, part of Walbrook Institute London, controls qualification registration, assessment and the CSDG award.
What will you learn to do?
Read guarantee wording carefully, distinguish the underlying contract from the independent undertaking, identify the applicable rules and examine what has actually been presented.
Work through URDG 758, complementary ISDGP practice, counter-guarantees, amendments, expiry, extend-or-pay situations and relevant ISP98 concepts.
CSDG Qualification Facts
The CSDG qualification is endorsed by ICC and supported by BAFT and TTP. These relationships apply to the LIBF qualification, not to EduDelphi as a training provider.
Qualification and designation
LIBF Level 4, with one unit: Principles and Practices of Demand Guarantees. Successful candidates may use the CSDG designation during its three-year validation cycle.
International CSDG Registry
Successful candidates are listed in the international CSDG Registry while their designation remains current. Continued listing requires successful recertification.
View official qualification recognition and registry information.
Who Should Take This CSDG Course?
For professionals who want to understand guarantees in depth—not just recognise the terminology.
- Bank guarantee, trade-operations and trade-services professionals
- Transaction-banking and regional trade-finance teams
- Treasury, commodity and trading-company professionals
- Procurement, project and commercial teams working with guarantees
- Documentary-credit specialists expanding into guarantees
- Candidates seeking structured CSDG preparation or focused revision
There are no formal qualification entry requirements. You should be comfortable studying in English at Level 4. Relevant experience helps you apply the material; newer learners can build their foundation before tackling complex demands and simulations.
If you need broad trade-finance knowledge first, compare our CITF course in Singapore. CITF is not a compulsory prerequisite for CSDG.
What Your CSDG Course Includes
Expert teaching, practical documents and a substantial learning system work together throughout your preparation.
Live training and recordings
40+ live faculty-led training hours covering rules, guarantee scenarios, document examination and exam preparation. Revisit explanations through recorded teaching.
A powerful AI-supported LMS
Organised notes, mind maps, infographics, visual summaries, glossary, study planners, revision resources, AI study support and much more.
Practical guarantee documents
Original guarantee wording, demand documents, counter-guarantee cases, workbooks and review checklists help you apply concepts to realistic situations.
Questions and multiple full mocks
Explained questions, timed practice and multiple exam-style mocks. Understand why an answer works and why a close alternative does not.
Live trainer support and feedback
Bring questions to doubt-clearing sessions, discuss document reasoning and use tutor feedback to improve your weaker areas.
Study guidance and training certificate
Support with your study route and official registration process, plus an EduDelphi certificate of training.
CSDG Syllabus: Demand Guarantees, URDG 758 and Standby Credits
The official qualification has one unit: Principles and Practices of Demand Guarantees (PDG). Our teaching breaks its connected concepts into clear, practical topics.
Guarantees, parties and applicable rules
Understand the undertaking
- Tender, performance, advance-payment and other demand guarantees
- Demand guarantees, suretyships, indemnities and standby letters of credit: legal and operational differences
- Applicant, beneficiary, guarantor and advising-party roles
- Independence from the underlying commercial contract
Apply the right framework
- URDG 758 and when the rules apply
- International Standard Demand Guarantee Practice (ISDGP 814)
- Relevant ISP98 principles for standby arrangements
- Governing law, jurisdiction and external risk factors
Drafting, issuance, amendments and counter-guarantees
- Interpret wording, documentary conditions and the scope of the undertaking
- Issuance, advising and amendments
- Direct guarantees and cross-border counter-guarantee arrangements
- Amounts, reductions, transfer and assignment considerations
- Expiry, termination and reduction events; practical operational controls
- Transmission and translation issues
Follow each undertaking separately. A counter-guarantee and the beneficiary-facing guarantee do not become the same obligation simply because they support one transaction.
Demands, document examination and risk
- Presentation requirements and supporting documents
- Examination of demands and identification of non-compliance
- Payment, rejection, waiver and notice requirements for non-complying demands
- Extend-or-pay situations and force majeure
- Party, operational, cross-border and compliance risks
- Check the accuracy of guarantee and standby-credit documents
- Case questions and document-checking simulations
Practise separating the key facts from distracting commercial detail, then explain the rule and wording behind your decision.
1. Structure
Identify the parties, purpose and undertaking.
2. Issue and Amend
Read the text and track what changes.
3. Examine the Demand
Compare requirements with the documents.
4. Decide and Close
Apply the relevant obligations, notices and expiry provisions.
ISDGP complements URDG practice; it does not replace the rules. Not every rule applies to every guarantee or standby. View the current official CSDG specification.
Learn, Practise and Improve with Your LMS
A deep set of resources, organised around a simple study journey.
Learn
Use live teaching, recordings, notes, visual explanations and AI study support to understand difficult concepts.
Practise
Start with guided examples, then move to guarantee documents, demand exercises, explained questions and multiple timed mocks.
Improve
Review mistakes, ask faculty to explain unclear points and focus revision on the topics and document decisions that need more work.
Use mind maps, infographics, checklists, glossary, study planners and revision aids alongside teaching. The AI study assistant helps you understand course concepts and navigate your learning resources.
Plan independent study alongside live tuition. LIBF identifies 256 total qualification hours. Your 40+ live faculty-led hours are one part of preparation, alongside reading, practice and mock review.
Practise with Guarantee Texts and Demand Documents
Build confidence through guided examples before adding exam time pressure.
Work through original guarantee texts, amendments, beneficiary demands and counter-guarantee situations. Identify the applicable undertaking, read its requirements and compare them with the facts presented.
Faculty feedback helps you distinguish a missed discrepancy, an issue incorrectly flagged, and a correct conclusion reached for the wrong reason.
Original Practice Example: What Must Be Presented?
Original EduDelphi teaching example—not an official or recalled exam question
The fictional guarantee
- Context
- A Singapore supplier provides a performance guarantee for a regional project.
- Assumptions
- The guarantee is subject to URDG 758. The demand is presented at the correct place before expiry. No other issue is introduced in this example.
- Required document
- A signed beneficiary demand stating the amount claimed, supported by a statement indicating how the applicant is in breach.
- What arrives
- A signed demand stating the amount, with a separate invoice but no supporting statement indicating the breach.
Practice question
Does the invoice, on its own, satisfy the missing supporting-statement requirement described in this guarantee?
Worked explanation
No, not on the stated facts. The examiner must compare the presented documents with the guarantee’s requirements and applicable rules. An invoice showing an amount is not, by itself, the required statement indicating how the applicant is in breach.
The learning point is to identify the precise documentary requirement—not assume that a commercial document fills every gap. In a complete case, learners also examine the other requirements, relevant timing and the appropriate next steps.
This simplified example teaches one document-checking point. Full exercises introduce additional wording, documents and decisions.
Your CSDG Trainers
Specialist guarantee expertise and commercial transaction knowledge support your preparation together.
Rebecca Whitmore
CDCS | CSDG | CITR | CDCE
25+ Years in Global Trade Finance, Documentary Credits & Guarantees · 12+ Years in Professional Training
Rebecca brings more than 25 years of international trade-finance experience, with deep specialisation in demand guarantees, standby LCs, documentary credits and ICC rules across Europe, Asia and other major banking markets.
For Singapore CSDG learners, she focuses on URDG 758, guarantee wording, demands, counter-guarantees, amendments, expiry, extend-or-pay situations, examination of presentations and rejection of non-complying demands.
Her practical, exam-focused sessions use guarantee texts, demand documents and CSDG-style scenarios. Learn to identify the applicable rule, isolate the key fact and reach a technically supported conclusion.
Examples connect with international banks, commodity and trading companies, infrastructure, shipping, construction and ASEAN cross-border commerce.
Rajiv Menon
CITF | CTFP | CSCF | CAMS | MBA – Finance & International Business
18+ Years in Global Trade Finance, Transaction Banking & Working Capital · 9+ Years in Professional Training
Rajiv brings more than 18 years of experience across trade finance, transaction banking, working capital and cross-border risk, with exposure spanning the United States, Middle East, Europe and Asia.
He explains the commercial purpose behind bid bonds, performance guarantees, advance-payment guarantees, payment guarantees and standby structures—and the risks each party is trying to control.
Singapore examples connect with regional headquarters, ASEAN trade, international procurement, infrastructure, shipping, commodities and multinational supply chains.
His sessions strengthen scenario interpretation, risk allocation and exam judgement. Learn to distinguish the underlying contract from the independent guarantee and work through the parties’ obligations systematically.
CSDG Exam Format, Pass Mark and Registration
Prepare for both knowledge questions and practical document reasoning. Section B has its own minimum pass requirement.
| Exam detail | Current format |
|---|---|
| Official unit | Principles and Practices of Demand Guarantees (PDG) |
| Duration | 3 hours 15 minutes |
| Section A | 50 multiple-choice questions · 50 marks |
| Section B | 10 standalone multiple-choice questions, one case with six linked questions and six document-checking simulations · 50 marks |
| Passing requirement | 70% overall and at least 60% in Section B |
| Qualification grades | Pass: 70–94 marks · Distinction: 95–100 marks, with the Section B requirement met |
| Current delivery | Remote-invigilated online assessment through Brightspace; no advance booking required |
| Official registration period | 12 months |
What Does CSDG Section B Actually Test?
Section B tests how you apply guarantee rules to a case and examine documents—not just what you remember. It includes reject-or-pay decisions and six document-checking simulations.
CSDG Section B Decision Lab
Our practice moves from guided guarantee examples to complete demand documents, timed decisions and tutor feedback. Learn to spot discrepancies, explain your decision and improve the reasoning behind it.
See the current Section B question breakdown
- 10 standalone multiple-choice questions.
- One case with six linked questions: two select one answer from four choices; four reject-or-pay exercises select one answer from five choices.
- Six document-checking simulations: select five discrepancies from ten possible options in each simulation.
Pass requirement: at least 70% overall and 60% in Section B. Check the official assessment specification.
How to Register and Prepare
1. Choose Your Study Route
Discuss your experience, learning needs and preferred delivery with EduDelphi.
2. Register with LIBF
Purchase official qualification registration separately and access its resources.
3. Learn and Practise
Combine teaching, independent study, document work and timed mocks.
4. Check the Exam Setup
Follow current identity, equipment, room and remote-invigilation instructions before starting.
What happens if I need a resit?
The current specification permits up to three attempts in a week and ten attempts in any 12-month period, subject to a resit fee. Review your weaknesses before another attempt. MyLIBF analysis sheets provide feedback on strengths and areas to develop.
Qualification facts checked 6 October 2026. Official CSDG assessment specification.
Demand Guarantees in Singapore Banking and Business
Connect the qualification with guarantee decisions across Singapore and regional transactions.
| Work context | Relevant learning |
|---|---|
| Bank guarantee and trade operations | Wording, issuance, amendments, demands, examination and operational escalation |
| Treasury and regional headquarters | Security arrangements, party obligations and cross-border guarantee structures |
| Procurement, infrastructure and projects | Bid, performance and advance-payment guarantees, expiry and commercial risk |
| Trading, shipping and ASEAN commerce | Counter-guarantees, international counterparties, transaction risk and rule application |
Singapore’s eGuarantee@Gov initiative provides a useful digital-guarantee context. From April 2025, relevant new government tenders and licences requiring guarantees moved to digital guarantees.
Training distinguishes the delivery channel from the undertaking: a digital guarantee does not automatically incorporate URDG 758 or change every documentary requirement. Read the text, applicable rules and beneficiary process.
These skills support professional development; the qualification does not guarantee a job, promotion or salary increase.
CSDG Study Options Across Singapore
Choose the support and delivery that fit how you learn.
Singapore Classroom
Learn in person with faculty, discuss guarantee scenarios and work through documents together. Classroom arrangements are available across Singapore.
Live Online
Join interactive teaching with questions, case discussion and recordings to revisit the material.
Private 1:1
Focus on your starting knowledge, difficult topics, document practice or exam preparation needs.
Supported Self-Paced
Study with recorded teaching and LMS resources, with live faculty support rather than studying entirely alone.
Focused Revision
Strengthen rule interpretation, simulations, timed questions and weaker areas with targeted tutor guidance.
Corporate and Blended
Private company cohorts, Singapore onsite, classroom, live online and blended learning for your team.
Our Singapore office is at 250 N Bridge Rd, Raffles City Tower, Singapore 179101. Speak with us about classroom and company arrangements around your location and learning needs.
CSDG Course Fees in Singapore
EduDelphi Tuition in SGD
Your quotation covers the study route you choose: classroom, live online, private, corporate, supported self-paced or focused revision.
Get clear details of teaching, recordings, LMS resources, document practice, multiple mocks and faculty support. Instalment options are available.
Official LIBF qualification registration is purchased separately. EduDelphi can guide you through the process.
Official LIBF Qualification Costs
| Official item | Reference |
|---|---|
| Full qualification registration: official materials and first assessment | £750 |
| Resit, if needed | £350 |
| Recertification | £230 |
| Late recertification fee, where applicable | £55 |
Official fees checked 6 October 2026 and shown in GBP, without a fixed SGD conversion. Confirm current amounts with LIBF before purchasing.
Corporate CSDG and Demand Guarantees Training in Singapore
Develop shared guarantee knowledge across bank operations, treasury, procurement and commercial teams.
For Banks and Trade Teams
Private CSDG cohorts with guarantee-wording exercises, demand examination, counter-guarantee cases, team study plans, multiple mocks and specialist feedback.
Strengthen consistency in document reasoning and the identification of issues requiring escalation.
For Companies and Project Teams
Connect bid, performance, advance-payment and standby arrangements with the commercial transaction and the risks each party needs to control.
Combine qualification preparation with applied workshops where your team needs practical workplace skills.
Choose classroom, corporate onsite, live online or blended training across Singapore. Custom schedules and relevant company-approved examples can support your team’s learning objectives.
Explore our corporate training options in Singapore.
CSDG vs CURDG, CDCS and CITF
Choose the route that matches your professional focus.
| Route | Focus | Typical direction |
|---|---|---|
| CSDG | Specialist demand-guarantee and relevant standby-credit qualification | Guarantee practice, demands, examination and technical judgement |
| ICC CURDG | Focused URDG 758 and ISDGP certification | A narrower rules-focused ICC route; not the same qualification as CSDG |
| CDCS | Documentary credits and document examination | Specialist letter-of-credit preparation |
| CITF | Broad trade-finance foundation | Settlement, financing, documents and risk across instruments |
If you need workplace skills rather than a qualification, explore our practical Bank Guarantees & Standby LC course in Singapore, with wording review, demand documents and trainer feedback. For commercial LC operations, explore our practical Letters of Credit course. You can also read our CDCS qualification guide when comparing specialist routes.
After CSDG: Progression and Recertification
CSDG can be part of a wider trade-finance learning path. Depending on your role, explore documentary credits, supply-chain finance, trade risk or broader advanced study.
CITF → CSDG → specialist guarantee knowledge
CSDG + complementary LIBF certificates → QTFE
CSDG → Core CTFP / advanced trade-finance study
These are possible study routes, not mandatory steps. CITF is not required before CSDG.
How can CSDG contribute to QTFE or Core CTFP?
LIBF’s QTFE pathway combines CITF or CPCM, CDCS or CSDG, and CSCF or CITR. Alternatively, three of the listed Level 4 qualifications can meet the qualification combination. CSDG does not award the diploma on its own.
ICC Academy also offers a Core CTFP route for eligible CSDG holders. ICC lists Core CTFP as 25 credits toward LIBF recertification. Check its current admission requirements and package directly. Explore the official Core CTFP route.
How do I keep my CSDG designation current?
The designation has a three-year validation cycle. Current recertification requires 36 relevant CPD learning hours or professional-development units, or the applicable re-examination route. Follow LIBF’s acceptance, evidence and reporting requirements.
Keep records of relevant professional learning. EduDelphi’s certificate of training is separate from official qualification and recertification decisions.
Compare our Singapore trade-finance training options for your next learning step.
CSDG Course Singapore FAQs
Can I attend CSDG classes in Singapore?
Yes. EduDelphi offers Singapore classroom training, live online, private tuition, corporate onsite and blended delivery. Supported self-paced and focused revision options are also available.
Do I need a degree or prior guarantee experience?
There are no formal entry requirements. You should be comfortable studying in English at Level 4. CSDG is specialist material, so relevant banking or guarantee experience helps. Newer learners can use foundation support before complex scenarios.
Are the 40+ live hours my entire study commitment?
No. They are the live faculty-led component. Budget independent reading, document practice and mock review as well. LIBF identifies 256 total qualification hours; your actual pace depends on starting knowledge and progress.
Are multiple mocks and tutor feedback included?
Yes. The course includes multiple exam-style mocks, practical document exercises and tutor feedback. Review your reasoning, discuss errors and focus further practice on weaker areas.
Can I choose supported self-paced study or revision only?
Yes. Supported self-paced study combines recordings and LMS resources with live faculty support. Focused revision can address difficult topics, document-checking simulations, exam timing and areas identified through practice.
Can I take the CSDG exam online from Singapore?
Yes. The current official route uses Brightspace with remote invigilation and does not require advance appointment booking. Check the current equipment, identity and testing-environment instructions before starting.
Is official qualification registration included in tuition?
No. EduDelphi tuition and official LIBF registration are separate. LIBF registration includes its official study resources and first assessment. EduDelphi provides teaching, its own resources, practice and support.
Does EduDelphi award the CSDG qualification?
LIBF, part of Walbrook Institute London, controls the qualification and assessment. EduDelphi prepares you and provides an EduDelphi certificate of training; that certificate is not the CSDG designation.
Can our company arrange private training?
Yes. Arrange private cohorts, classroom, corporate onsite, live online or blended training across Singapore. Team study plans, relevant examples, practical exercises and faculty feedback can support your learning objectives.
Are instalment options available?
Yes. Ask for the current SGD tuition and instalment options for your selected study route. We can also provide a quotation and course documents for employer sponsorship or reimbursement requests.
Is SkillsFuture funding available for this course?
Eligible Singapore Citizens may be able to use their SkillsFuture Credit (Base Tier) for selected EduDelphi courses through an individual case-by-case assessment by SkillsFuture Singapore.
EduDelphi can provide the supporting course invoice, syllabus, learning outcomes, enrolment documentation and other supporting documents required for the application. Approval is subject to SkillsFuture Singapore’s assessment.
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