Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The 22nd conference of the Banking Association for Central and Eastern Europe (BACEE) will take place in mid-April and ITFA has arranged a discount for members who would like to attend. The BACEE Country and Bank Conference takes place between the 13th and 15th April 2010, at the Budapest Danubius Grand Hotel Margitsziget, Budapest. Presentations […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

With less than six months to go to ITFA’s Annual Conference, now’s the time to make sure it’s in your diary. This year’s conference will take place in Berlin from Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th September. Full booking details will be sent out nearer the time. It goes without saying that there will be the […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA’s North European Regional Committee (NERC) has hosted a well-attended cocktail reception in the City of London. The event, held at the iconic Richard Rogers designed Lloyds insurance market building at One Lime Street on the evening of 10th December, attracted 70 guests from across the forfaiting market. Many took the opportunity to join guided […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

News from ITFA’s Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting in Rome is that following the retirement of four members of ITFA’s board, former Treasurer Paolo Provera has been elected Chairman and new officers have been elected. At the AGM, which took place of Thursday 3rd September, four members of the board stepped down having fulfilled […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

In view of the recent problems in Kazakhstan and the establishment by the ITFA of a Working Party to lobby on behalf of members in relation to Bank Turanalem and possibly other Kazakh borrowers, a meeting will be held during the ITFA Annual Conference in Rome. Details will be announced during the Conference and all […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Further to our previous advice, the BTA Working Group is planning a conference call for this Thursday, 6th August at 10.00 London time, 11.00 CET. Any interested member is welcome to join. The number is (+44 )(0)207 406 2222 PIN 391529.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The International Chamber of Commerce has formally announced the creation of a joint drafting group with ITFA to prepare new global forfaiting rules.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

This year’s Annual Conference, which will take place in Rome from 2nd to 4th September will be our 10th Anniversary and therefore a landmark in ITFA’s history The Conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, St. Peter’s near Rome’s magnificent Vatican City. As usual it is expected to be attended by everyone who’s […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Despite budget cuts, layoffs and swine flu, the Association of Trade and Forfaiting in the Americas’ (“ATFA”) recent conference was a success. The event, ATFA’s 12th annual conference, was held in San Diego, California between 20th and 22nd May. It was well attended and included a wide range of panel topics from the US Troubled […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

On 16th June there will be a cocktail party at the Escape Bar in Sao Paolo. It will co-sponsored by both ITFA and ATFA (Association of Trade and Forfaiting in the Americas) and will be attended by both ITFA Chairman Lucio Matassoni and ATFA Board Member Hernan Mayol.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

In light of the global financial crisis, ITFA is offering a concessionary rate to members who would like to attend this year’s annual conference in Rome on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of September.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Discounted applications are now available for the International Chamber of Commerce, International Trade Finance Conference Week in Vienna. ITFA members can enjoy a 20% discount on the regular conference rates for the entire event or for individual days. The Conference Week runs from 11th to 15th May. In order to benefit from these special ITFA […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

ITFA’s Southern Europe Regional Committee (SERC) has elected two new members. Amid turmoil in a number of Southern European region markets, attendance at SERC’s meeting in Milan on 12th March was somewhat depleted. Nonetheless two new members were elected to the committee: Mr. Stefano Cesari of Unicredito, and Mr. Paolo Jelmoni of Reginato & Mercante, […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

A new ITFA Brazilian Regional Committee has now been established. The new committee was formally ratified by ITFA’s Board on 6th March 2009. It has initially four members: Renato Schulman of Banco Finantia, the Committee’s Chairman; Guilherme Gottardi of Banco Fibra, Alexandre Ozzetti of London Forfaiting Company and representing ATFA, The Association of Trade & […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The International Chamber of Commerce is to hold its annual International Trade Finance Conference Week in Vienna. The event, which will be held between 11th and 15th May, is to be hosted by RZB Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich at their Am Stadtpark 9, premises. The week includes an extremely wide variety of presentations and discussions under […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Representatives of banks throughout the Central and Eastern Europe Region attended the half-day educational course on UCP600, held in Vienna on 29th January. At the event, hosted by Bank Austria, Radek Dobas, the highly experienced Head of Documentary Payments at Ceska Sporitelna, spoke about the International Chamber of Commerce rules for documentary credits set out […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Almost 100 people attended the event that took place at Accountants Hall in the City of London on Thursday evening 5th February. Those invited had been drawn from around the Northern European region and represented a good cross section of the market. “Even if funding is presenting difficulties to finalising transactions, the strong turn out […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Twenty-eight people from all over the world attended the forfaiting seminar in Prague on 2nd and 3rd September, ahead of the conference. The course, which spanned two half-days, was an introduction to best practice in forfaiting and covered, among other things, risk assessment, how to carry out discount calculations, documentary issues and considerations of how […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

ITFA’s Prague conference was one of the most successful in the nine-year history of the Association. The 185 attendees from 34 countries gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel on Wednesday 3rd September in the historic Czech Republic capital for the two-day event, which culminated in cocktail reception and gala dinner at St. Agnes Monastery. At the […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

If you have had trouble accessing some of the material on the ITFA website over recent weeks, we are pleased to tell you that we have now fixed the problems. Following relaunch of the site there were one or two teething problems and our technicians have now sorted them out. But if you feel that […]