Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

New Photos from Vienna are now available

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Successful Annual Workshop of the German Regional Committee For the second time the German Regional Committee has held a workshop for Senior Forfaiters. This year the Workshop took place in Munich. It was hosted by Bayerische Landesbank, followed by an invitation by the ITFA to a networking dinner for all participants to the workshop. The […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The Board of the ITFA – International Trade and Forfaiting Association- is pleased to invite you to its traditional Christmas Party in London on 12th December, 2011. The party will start at 7.00 p.m. and will be held at

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The H. Stepic CEE Charity is a non-profit association working to improve the living conditions of children, juveniles and women in Central and Eastern Europe. The association was founded in Vienna in the year 2006 and has its office in Vienna. All projects are displayed at www.stepicceecharity.org.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

On 9 June 2011, ITFA organized a successful education course in Amsterdam which was attended by 32 delegates from 16 financial institutions. Mainly addressing the Dutch Banking Community, the workshop offered a good platform to the attendees to exchange views and to do networking. Several presentations were held by Sema Zeyneloglu (Rabobank), Bert Verkerk (Rabobank), […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Successful ITFA (CEE Regional) Educational Gathering in Vienna ITFA’s Central and Eastern European Regional Committee has hosted a successful education seminar in Vienna. The event took place on Thursday 12th May at UniCredit Bank Austria AG, Stefansplatz offices in central Vienna and was attended by 24 participants drawn from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

On May 5th, 2011 the members of the German Regional Committee met in a very beautiful traditional Frankfurt-style apple-wine cellar to get updates on latest events in the ITFA, exchange some ideas and news and just to have a good time together. Over 20 members from 12 different banks from all over Germany assisted in […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Dear Member, As you know this year some Board Members will terminate their term of service and therefore at the next AGM in Vienna there will be the election. For this reason and as requested by the art.15 of the Statute, the ITFA Board has constituted the Nomination Committee composed as follows:

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Further to our recent Board meeting held in Amsterdam on the 6th of April, we would like to inform all ITFA members on the following:

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA welcomes CO.MO.I Group as new member in Italy.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The Board of the International Forfaiting Association and Credit Europe Bank N.V. are pleased to invite all interested members to a Cocktail Reception at the “Little Buddha Bar”, Amsterdam

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The ITFA is pleased to welcome Swiss Forfait s.r.o. of the Czech Republic and London Global Forfaiting Limited of the United Kingdom as its newest members.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The last 10th November KfW, Frankfurt hosted another successful event of the ITFA. The German Regional Committee, chaired by Silja Calac, organized a workshop on different issues. There have been interesting discussions on the Unified Rules for Forfaiting, on due diligence issues particularly for sanctioned countries, on the documentation for the credit assignment but the […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA board member Demetris Zouzoukis has given a key presentation at this year’s annual BACEE conference in Budapest. The 23rd Banking Association for Central and Eastern Europe’s Country and Bank Conference took place at Budapest’s Danubius Health Spa Resort on the island of Margitsziget on 18th and 19th November. The 75 delegates who attended the […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA’s Northern Europe Regional Committee Christmas party was a success and also held at an unusual venue. The event, which took place on the evening of Tuesday 14th December, was attended by about 100 ITFA members and their guests drawn from across Europe. The turnout demonstrated again the warmth and friendship which characterises our market.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The NERC is pleased to invite ITFA members from all regions to a Christmas party in London on 14th December. The party will start at 7.00 p.m. and will be held at Loungelover, 1 Whitby Street London E1 6JU (visit their website at http://www.loungelover.co.uk for instructions on how to get there and information on the […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA has conducted a successful education seminar in Beirut in cooperation with the Bank of Beirut. The training event, which took place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in central Beirut on Thursday 27th May, was sponsored by the Bank of Beirut, one of Lebanon’s largest and most rapidly growing financial institutions. It was attended by […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA’s Central and Eastern European Regional Committee has hosted a successful education seminar in Vienna. The event took place on Thursday 29th April at Bank Austria’s Lassallestrasse offices in central Vienna and was attended by 22 participants drawn from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary. Dr. Andrea Hauptmann, Vice President at RZB gave a presentation […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Regional Committees’ Update: It is announced that Mrs. Silja Calac, Head of Trade Risk Management at Unicredit AG, Munich has replaced Armin Smalzgruber as Head of the German Regional Committee.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The International Forfaiting Association announces a forthcoming education seminar. The event, which is to be hosted by Bank of Beirut, will take place on Thursday 27th May 2010 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon. It is entitled Introduction to Forfaiting and will be led by Richard Willsher, who has taught a number of ITFA’s […]