Reuters Events, Commodities Trading USA, Houston, June 7 and 8, 2022 – Discounts for ITFA Members

Tuesday, May 10th, 2022

The ITFA Board is pleased to announce that we will partner with Reuters Events on the upcoming event:Commodities Trading USA 2022 event, June 7-8, Houston. The event will unite 150+ senior executives from trading houses, banks, etc. and will gather to tackle the biggest issues facing the industry, such as integrating digital trade solutions, refining long term sustainability targets and more

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MEMBERS RE-JOINING ITFA, May 2022

Friday, May 20th, 2022

ITFA is pleased to welcome back the following institution to its growing family:

– The Access Bank UK Limited

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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, Apr 2022

Friday, April 22nd, 2022

As you may have seen we have been successfully holding in-person events and so excited to be able to announce that more are being planned. With Zurich being our next stop, Dubai, Amsterdam and Paris will eventually follow, with a variety of topics and interesting and topical agendas being planned.

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MORE THAN SEVENTY PERCENT OF BANKERS EXPECT TO REPLACE THEIR TRADE FINANCE TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, Apr 2022

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

A significant majority of trade finance bankers are expecting to replace their trade and supply chain finance technology in the coming years, in an attempt to drive digitisation across the industry.

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EMERGING LEADERS UPDATE: MENTORING SCHEME 2022 LAUNCHES, ANNUAL COMPETITION, EVENT SCHEDULE, Apr 2022

Friday, April 22nd, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 is behind us and the ITFA Emerging Leaders Committee is keeping busy! In this month’s newsletter we would like to share some exciting updates.

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Webinar – Outline for ITFA Regulatory report launch at Kosmos Working Group – 12 April 2022

Wednesday, April 6th, 2022

ITFA and Coriolis Technologies are delighted to invite you to the launch of their White Paper: “Sustainability reporting: is it possible to avoid the regulatory quagmire?”.

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DOES A BENEFICIARY’S RECKLESS PRESENTATION UNDER LETTERS OF CREDIT AMOUNT TO FRAUD?A critique of Credit Agricole v PPT Energy, Apr 22

Monday, April 11th, 2022

Letters of credit (“LCs”) are the lifeblood of international trade. The policy considerations of ensuring that such documentary credits serve the function of cash means that banks must pay against a conforming presentation under an LC; its role limited to dealing with the documents on its face and not the underlying transaction, the underlying goods or the underlying motivations of parties to the trade.

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LESSONS LEARNT 2020/2022 – PUTTING A DIFFERENT PICTURE TOGETHER, Apr 2022

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

Looking back on the past two years with a pandemic not experienced for long, the increasing symptoms of climate change reaching our front doors in private as well as management floors in companies and last not least a totally unexpected war in Europe we have trouble following the impact on our lives.

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ITFA NEW MEMBERS, Apr 2022

Friday, April 22nd, 2022

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

– Aegon Asset Management
– Evolution Credit Partners Management LLC.
– Stephenson Harwood
– StorX 
– Squire Patton Boggs

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MEMBERS REJOINING ITFA, Apr 2022

Friday, April 22nd, 2022

ITFA is pleased to welcome back the following institutions to its growing family:

– COMOI Consulting S.p.A.
– Jiangsu Jiangyan Rural Commercial Bank Co. LTD
– Meridian Finance Group
– Norex International LLC
– SABB

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Webinar: Insurance Committee Update from the Regulatory side: the ITFA Position Paper

Monday, June 13th, 2022

The Insurance Committee (IC) is pleased to give ITFA members an update on the discussions which they have with regulators and law-makers on the implementations of the new Basel Rules into CRR. This webinar will be held on Wednesday, 13th July 2022

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Commodity Trading Week – 26 – 27 April 2022 – Discounts for ITFA Members

Monday, April 4th, 2022

The ITFA Board is pleased to announce that we will partner with Commodities People for the following hybrid event: Commodity Trading Week, taking place at the Hilton Tower Bridge, London between the 26-27 April.

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ITFA response to IFRS exposure on SCF accounting standards

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) published in November of last year its proposals, in an exposure draft, for the treatment of supply chain finance arrangements under IFRS

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ITFA Annual Conference, Porto, 7-9 September 2022 – Conference Website Is Now LIVE

Thursday, March 24th, 2022

ITFA is overwhelmingly delighted and pleased to announce that the much awaited ITFA Annual Conference – LIVE is here.

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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, Mar 2022

Friday, March 18th, 2022

I hope you are fine wherever you are in the world. During these uncertain times I feel obliged to shift the initial thought of this newsletter towards the situation in Ukraine. To this effect we encourage our peers to join some funding towards helping this current humanitarian cause.

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THE SECRET SAUCE: MAXIMISING BANK-FINTECH COLLABORATION IN TRADE FINANCE, Mar 2022

Thursday, March 17th, 2022

During my lifetime, much has been said about the idea of “fintech disruption”.

About five years ago, for example, emerging technology companies identified as “fintechs” were said to represent a competitive threat to transaction banks

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INDIA-UK FREE TRADE AGREEMENT – A GAME CHANGER?, Mar 22

Thursday, March 17th, 2022

The economic ties between UK and India have come a long way since 1991 when, India liberalized her economy. After Brexit, the UK is focused on developing engagement with non-European economies. The EU-India FTA negotiation is stuck in limbo with limited chances of revival. India-UK economic ties will hedge bets for both countries.

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PRESS RELEASE, Mar 2022

Wednesday, March 16th, 2022

8th March 2022: – 360tf has organized an international webinar on the occasion of women’s day which was themed on “Women in Global Trade Finance- Breaking the Glass Ceiling”

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ITFA NEW MEMBERS, Mar 2022

Friday, March 18th, 2022

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

– ADM International Sarl
– Banco Latino Americano De Comercio Exterior (Bladex SA)
– CGI
– IHS Markit
– NN Investment Partners

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Emerging Leaders Seminar and Networking Drinks, London – 31 March 2022

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

The ITFA Emerging Leaders Committee would like to invite all Emerging Leaders within the industry to attend their upcoming seminar entitled Legal Issues in Trade Finance, taking place on 31 March 2022.

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