Cheryl White is vice president of Global Trade Finance for The Royal Bank of Scotland in Chicago.

Until 2007, Ms. White was vice president of Global Trade Advisory, LaSalle Bank. LaSalle Bank is headquartered in Chicago and has $62.8 billion in assets and $36.4 billion in deposits. One of the largest banks in the Midwest and second largest in Chicago, LaSalle Bank is a subsidiary of Netherlands-based ABN AMRO.

Global Trade Advisory professionals offer strong expertise in providing exporters of capital goods with medium-term financing required by their customers in emerging markets. They have well-founded expertise in delivering medium-term financing for investments of OECD operators in emerging market countries, through specialized units across the globe.

LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO trade and commodity finance experts provide pre-export financing to reduce country risk and short-term financing using commodities as security.

Ms. White has served two terms as president of the International Trade Club of Chicago from 1996 to 1998.