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TRADE FINANCE FUNDS – A SHARPENING APETITE? Mar 2023

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023

Investor understanding of trade finance funds and how they fit into a balanced portfolio has some way to go, agreed panelists at the 2022 ITFA Annual Conference, and the asset class must hold its own against other structured finance asset offerings to gain momentum.

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ITFA NERC WINTER SEMINAR & NETWORKING DRINKS, LONDON – 1st MARCH 2023, Mar 2023

Friday, March 17th, 2023

It was a pleasure to welcome well over 100 attendees to the recent ITFA NERC Winter Seminar kindly hosted at their premises and co-sponsored by Allen & Overy.

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CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023, Mar 2023

Friday, March 17th, 2023

The theme chosen by Trade Finance Global for this year’s International Women’s Day was #EmbraceEquity, emphasising the fact that we can all truly embrace equity. Equity is about creating an inclusive world.

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AN UNCERTAIN LANDSCAPE: FIVE TRADE FINANCE TRENDS FOR 2023, Mar 2023

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023

As uncertainty remains in global supply chains and trade finance, the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Lynn Galkoski, Director, Trade Product & Portfolio Management with BNY Mellon Treasury Services shares her insights on trends that may arise this year.

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ITFA PARTNERED WITH GTR DURING THE GTR MENA, DUBAI, Mar 2023

Tuesday, March 21st, 2023

The ITFA Board was delighted to support GTR at their GTR MENA conference in Dubai in February – the first fully in-person large-scale event in Dubai for many of us since the pandemic.

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ITFA NEW MEMBERS, Mar 2023

Friday, March 24th, 2023

ITFA is pleased to welcome seven institutions to its growing family:

– Asian Development Bank (ADB)
– CRX Markets
– C2FO
– International Metal Platform AG
– TradeSun
– vabble.io
– Yapi Kredi Nederland

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CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE – Sean Edwards, ITFA Chairman / Head of Legal and Special Adviser to the Global Trade Finance Department at SMBC, Feb 2023

Friday, February 24th, 2023

We kicked off events in Tallinn, where together with Andre Casterman, I represented ITFA during the ITFA-SupplierPlus SCF Summit 2023. During this summit, our second in Tallinn, we discussed the potential use of digital negotiable instruments (such as electronic bills of exchange) with irrevocable payment undertakings and the new SCF accounting rules.

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE?, Feb 2023

Tuesday, February 21st, 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions, forced businesses into a choice. Either they were required, in an already difficult and competitive environment, to look elsewhere to other markets just as corrupt and dangerous as Russia, or to seek loopholes and shortcuts in the sanctions program and claim that their individual or corporate entity was clean and therefore fine to work with, even if this is self-evidently untrue.

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VEFI ACTIVITIES, Feb 2023

Friday, February 17th, 2023

As many of you will have already taken notice of following the recent email by ITFA, the Association of Forfaiters in Switzerland ‘VEFI’, will soon be hosting its traditional bowling and jass evening kindly sponsored by Willis Towers Watson

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AFRICAN TRADE ENCOURAGED BY IMPROVED 2023 COUNTRY RISK OUTLOOKS, Feb 2023

Tuesday, February 21st, 2023

If all goes according to plan – which is not assured –, Nigeria will hold its most contested presidential elections in a generation on 25 February, marking only the second time that no incumbent is on the ballot since the return of democracy.

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TALLINN SCF SUMMIT 2023: CO-CREATION IS ESSENTIAL TO BETTER SCF, Feb 23

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023

The Tallinn SCF Summit 2023, organised by SupplierPlus and ITFA on 8-9 February, brought together corporates, banks, fintechs, and policymakers from Central and Eastern European countries to discuss developments in supply chain finance.

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ITFA NEW MEMBERS, Feb 2023

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023

ITFA is pleased to welcome five institutions to its growing family:

– Atlantic Risk Management Services
– Contour
– National Credit Insurance (Brokers) Pty Ltd
– Rebeccanomics 
– TradeRiver(UK) Ltd

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