ITFA Seminar and Christmas Party 2025, London

The ITFA Board is excited to announce our much-anticipated Christmas Party 2025! Don’t miss out — registration is open!

We’re excited to return to the same wonderful venue as last year and can’t wait to welcome you for another memorable event! Join us on Monday, 8 December 2025, at The Steel Yard in London for a joyful evening of celebration exclusively for ITFA members.

Before the festivities begin, we’re also hosting an insightful Seminar starting at 14:00. This will be an engaging session filled with valuable content, and we encourage you to join us for both the Seminar and the Party.

Preliminary agenda as follows:

Financing Military Procurement: Opportunities, Challenges and the Role of Trade and Supply Chain Finance

Speakers

• Sean Edwards, ITFA Chairman
• Brigadier General (R.) Robbie Boyd OBE MA MPhil(Cantab.) MSS, Senior Leader, Defence Security and Resilience Bank Development Group
• Rebecca Harding, CEO, Centre for Economic Security

Nigeria in Focus: Changes, Challenges and the Road ahead

Moderator

• Natalia Andrew, Head of Multinationals and Financial Institutions at Zenith Bank UK

Panellists

• Harry Davies, Senior Underwriter, Credit and Political Risk (International), Credit and Political Risk Solutions Team, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
• Nisrin Abouelezz, Executive Director, Head of Africa Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited
• Desiree Cline-Thomas, Deputy Head – Trade Finance at The Access Bank UK
• Anna Brod-Ohana, Associate Director, Senior Banker – Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD Financial Institutions

Coffee Break

Who Is in Control? – The EuroChem Court Decision and Its Impact on Sanctions’ Application

• Akshay Misra, Managing Associate at Penningtons Manches Cooper; and
• Alexandra Shipulina, Legal Counsel of ABC International Bank plc.

18:00 – 00:00    Christmas party – Complimentary beer and wine served till 22:00.

REGISTER HERE

We kindly request that the Main Delegate of each member institution completes the registration form. In case this right will need to be delegated, we kindly ask the main delegate to advise us by sending an email to sec@itfa.org.

The numbers are restricted to 3 delegates per member institution attending both the Seminar and Networking Party and an additional 2 delegates attending the Networking Party only. The deadline for registration is Friday, November 28, 2025. We would like to emphasise that access to the event is limited to confirmed guests only.

NOTE: If your institution was a Silver sponsor or higher, at our Annual Conference in Singapore, or if you’ve already secured Silver sponsorship or higher for the 2026 ITFA Annual Conference in Split, please reach out to us at sec@itfa.org for additional complimentary tickets.

We look forward to celebrating the holiday season with you once again in true ITFA style.