Trade Finance Solutions Inc., a provider of global trade financing solutions, announced the appointment of Tony C. Howard as chief credit officer. Howard will direct the company’s credit professionals and assume responsibility for the portfolio and underwriting functions.

“I am pleased to welcome Tony to our executive management team. Tony brings over two decades of financial and professional services experience,” said Steve McDonald, president of TFS. “We look forward to Tony’s contributions to our future success as TFS continues its rapid growth in key markets.”

Howard has over 20 years of international finance experience in corporate and investment banking and in asset based lending, as well as having served as a turnaround and restructuring practitioner in the middle market. He was formerly Managing Director of CBIZ, a Managing Director at PWC, and a Director with KPMG’s Corporate Finance Group in Atlanta. He held positions of increasing responsibility at both SouthTrust Bank and CIT. Most recently he has conducted a variety of board level finance, credit and risk reviews and assignments targeting growth and corporate renewal across a broad spectrum of companies, working closely with many major banking and commercial finance companies in the US and Canada.

Founded in 2006, Trade Finance Solutions, Inc. is a provider of domestic and international financing solutions for small to mid-sized businesses across a wide variety of industries. The firm helps clients succeed through their supplier credit, factoring, purchase order and asset-based lending programs with a focus on international trade. The company has principal operations in Miami, FL, and Toronto, Canada.