Friday, May 22nd, 2015

The ITFA Board is delighted to announce that Markus Wohlgeschaffen, the Managing Director and Head of Global Trade Products in Global Transaction Banking at UniCredit, will be addressing ITFA’s Annual Conference again this year.

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

In collaboration with Sullivan & Worcester, ITFA is pleased to invite you to yet another Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar entitled “Sullivan & Worcester’s Article 194 opinion on the BAFT Master Participation agreement”. This seminar is going to be held on Thursday 28th May, at Pinners Hall, London, UK. Registration and breakfast are at 8:15 am followed by a presentation from 8:45 till 10:00 am.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

We are delighted to inform you that ITFA will be represented by its Chairman, Paolo Provera, at the 15th Annual RFIx Convention, “Receivables Finance International”, which will be held between the 25th and 26th March, at the Westin Hotel, Madrid, Spain. The event will be preceded by a Supply Chain Finance Workshop to be held […]

Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

The North East Asia Regional Committee (NEARC) has successfully held its Luncheon Party on 29 January 2015 in Beijing celebrating the upcoming Chinese New Year. During the party, 14 participants from 9 NEARC members including BOC, ICBC, ABC, China CITIC, Bank of Jiangsu, China Everbright Bank, CCB, China Merchants Bank and China Minsheng Banking Corp. exchange views […]

Monday, February 2nd, 2015

The TFR Cross-border Trade Forum is being held on the 18th of March 2015 in Central London. This is a one-day event that celebrates the real deals on the ground that underpins today’s economy.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

  The factoring and commercial finance industry met in Brussels for the first time ever for a summit aiming at joining forces and developing common solutions to support the real economy.  Read more by clicking here. Left to right: Magdalena Wessel (Chief Legal Counsel, Deutscher Factoring-Verband), John Gielen (EUF Chairman), Michaël Theurer (Member of European […]

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

ITFA takes the opportunity to remind all its members about the following upcoming event, being brought to you in collaboration with BAFT.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

This year’s workshop for senior forfaiters was hosted by BHF-BANK Aktiengesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main on November 5, 2014.  This was then followed by an invitation from the International Trade & Forfaiting Association to a networking dinner for all participants of the workshop. As in previous years the workshop, reserved for ITFA members only, held in German, […]

Monday, September 1st, 2014

Four of the ITFA Board Members who were up for re-elections, have all been successfully voted on to the Board of ITFA during the elections at AGM in Istanbul.

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

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.

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 […]