Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023

CASTL provides strategic advice and training to ensure that the law supports sustainability, including effective strategies to remove legal blockages.  For example, removing legal constraints to the digitalisation of trade and trade finance, see https://thecastl.com/projects.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), headquartered in Cairo, is a trade finance-focused development bank established in October 1993 as a multilateral trade development institution to finance and promote trade among African countries and between the continent and the rest of the world. As a profit-oriented multilateral institution with a mixed public-private shareholder base, it focuses on […]

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arrived. As a technology making waves across just about every industry, its impact on the rapidly digitalising trade finance space is finally being felt. A new white paper issued by ITFA member Tradeteq outlines how this technology is being applied to tackle directly the pressing issue of inadequate credit scoring for […]

Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

FCI’s Vision is to be the Global Association for the Open Account Receivables Finance Industry. With close to 400 member companies in 90 countries FCI offers a unique network for cooperation in cross-border factoring. Receivables Finance is the core focus of the association and includes Factoring, Invoice Discounting and other Supply Chain Finance solutions.

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

ATI provides risk solutions for trade and investments in Africa. ATI’s products broadly include political risk insurance and trade credit insurance. ATI’s clients broadly include lenders (international and local banks) that are extending financing for projects undertaken by governments and private investors. They also include supplier credits to investors and private buyers. Risks insured include […]

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

CUNEF is a leading Spanish university, affiliated to Universidad Complutense de Madrid and owned by the Spanish Banking Association (AEB), specialized in Finance, Business Administration, Economics and Law. Founded in 1973, CUNEF has been delivering world class education to than 8,000 students. Their undergraduate programs in Business Administration and Law are unique in Spain. Moreover, their graduate […]

Friday, November 3rd, 2017

ISCTE Business School (IBS) is a leading Portuguese business school, with more than 100 full-time faculty members and over 3,500 students in 22 different degree programmes (6 BSc, 12 MSc and 4 PhD). The School is recognised both domestically and internationally for delivering impactful learning experiences in a multicultural environment, the excellence in international research, […]

Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

The London Institute of Banking & Finance provides outstanding education in the banking and finance sector, equipping individuals with the skills and knowledge necessary for career development and lifelong learning. Their qualifications are specific to role requirements, designed in collaboration with industry specialists to meet the demands that the banking sector expects. Balancing experience and insight with […]

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA) brings together the world’s leading companies that provide credit insurance and/or surety bonds. Founded in 1928 as the first credit insurance association, the current members account for 95% of the world’s private credit insurance business. Today, with almost USD 3 trillion in trade receivables insured and billions of […]

Friday, January 13th, 2017

The Berne Union is a non-profit international association, representing the global export credit and investment insurance industry. Members include government-backed export credit agencies, private credit and political risk insurers and multilateral agencies. Collectively their members provide payment risk protection for approximately 11% of world trade. The Berne Union’s mission is to actively facilitate cross-border trade by […]

Monday, October 10th, 2016

The ICC has just published its annual Global Trade & Finance Survey for 2016. ITFA has contributed a report on global trends in forfaiting, building on its work with the Asian Development Bank, at pages 96 to 101. Click on the link to download a copy of the report.

Sunday, September 11th, 2016

Following ITFA’s invitation, earlier on in March, to participate in this year’s annual ADB Trade Finance Gaps Survey, we are pleased to inform you that the results of the survey have been quantified.  In collaboration with the Asian Development Bank, this is ITFA’s third year of participation.