Announcements


Emerging Leaders of 2020 competition ALERT: deadline extended to Friday 14th August 2020!

Friday, June 26th, 2020

Following the feedback from the current successful ITFA Emerging Leader of the Year competition, the established ITFA Emerging Leader Committee has decided to extend its deadline to Friday 14th of August 2020 and wants to hear from you.

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ITFA Webinar – TFD Initiative Trading Community goes Digital – 2 July 2020

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020

Join us on July 2nd for an educational session on the latest developments related to TFD Initiative.

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ITFA webinar – Digitising bills of exchange – why and how – 30 June 2020

Thursday, June 18th, 2020

Join us on Tuesday June 30 for the next webinar on the DNI Initiative.

Following the recent set-up of the Technology Experts for Regulatory Action (TERA) task force, we are herewith inviting ITFA members to join us on June 30 for further insights and debate on the required policy changes for negotiable instruments to move digital, and on the recent actions initiated by banks and fintechs around the world.

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ITFA Insurance Webinar – Synthetic Securitization – 12 June 2020

Monday, June 8th, 2020

The ITFA Insurance Committee is pleased to invite all our ITFA members to our third webinar during which we will explain to you another interesting field of cooperation between banks and insurance companies: Synthetic Securitization.

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ITFA GRC Webinar – E-signatures – 19 June 2020

Friday, June 5th, 2020

The ITFA German Regional Committee is pleased to invite ITFA members to an educational webinar on eSignatures.

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ITFA webinar briefs – May 2020

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020

The ITFA Board through the support of regions and functions has organised a number of webinars for its members. Below is a brief on the webinars organised during the month of May.

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TFD Initiative – evolution of credit scoring using quantum computing

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020

We are delighted to invite you to the next TFD Initiative webinar on the evolution of credit scoring using quantum computing. The session will be introduced by ITFA, WTO and ICC whilst Singapore Management University and Tradeteq will outline how new technologies further increase risk transparency in support of SME financing.

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TFD Initiative: Asset Distribution – a macro-economic necessity

Monday, May 25th, 2020

We are delighted to share the latest white paper produced by Tradeteq as part of the Trade Finance Distribution (TFD) Initiative. This paper explains how trade finance distribution helps small businesses by bringing additional liquidity to the market.

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Webinar: The Impact Of COVID 19 On The Economies Of The US And Latin America – 19/20 May

Monday, May 18th, 2020

Please join ITFA Americas – in collaboration with FIBA and Chubb – for two informative webinar sessions from key industry experts to address the economic impacts of COVID 19, the political risk implications of the pandemic, the upcoming US elections and the regional impact on Latin America.

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Post DNI Initiative webinar

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

The ITFA Board and the ITFA Fintech Committee are delighted with the success of its very first educational DNI Initiative webinar which took place on Tuesday 12 May. Attended by many from around the globe, since we organised two sessions to ensure that everyone from the various time zones could join, the webinar was very informative and yet interactive.

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DNI Initiative webinar – Technology integration and Bank Guarantee use case

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

Following the release of the first deliverable of the DNI Initiative, the ITFA Fintech Committee is delighted to invite you to our second educational webinar taking place on Tuesday 19 May. Two sessions are planned for our global membership: one at 10am UK and a repeat webinar at 3pm UK time.

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ITFA / BAFT Guidance on Accommodation of LIBOR Transition in MPAs

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

The ITFA Market Practice Committee (MPC) has been tracking developments with the phasing out of the LIBOR interest rate benchmark (as well as other term-based interbank reference rates) and would like to bring to Members’ attention some specific challenges posed to the wording of standardised MPAs which may arise during the transition period.

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