Trade Finance Solutions appointed Tony C. Howard chief credit officer. Howard will direct the company’s credit professionals and assume responsibility for the portfolio and underwriting functions.

Howard has more than 20 years of international finance experience in corporate and investment banking and asset-based lending. He also 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 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 U.S. and Canada.

“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.”