Friday, July 24th, 2015

Dieter Von Boddien, Chairperson of VEFI, is pleased to invite all ITFA and VEFI members to the newly established VEFI Summer-Cocktail 2015. Please note that the invitation is extended also to your colleagues who are involved in the daily forfaiting business.

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

Why does good deal structuring always pay? The long-awaited decision by the judge to find in favour of Mercuria in the uncertain world of commodity repos underlines how important it is to have a proper grasp of structured trade finance and how everything works in practice. Help is at hand, Dr Benedict Okey Oramah, president elect of […]

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

Another week…another exciting speaker. Indeed our Annual Conference is fast approaching and we hope that you are currently making all the necessary arrangements to be present for yet another well attended and successful ITFA event.  To register for the Conference on-line, please click here.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Following an agreement entered into between ITFA and eBSI Export Academy, we are delighted to inform you that we have managed to negotiate yet another very attractive deal for our ITFA members.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

It is with great pleasure that the ITFA Board introduces Prof. Trevor Williams, Chief economist at Lloyds Bank Commercial, a visiting professor at Derby University, a member of the Institute of Economic Affairs Shadow Monetary Policy Committee (SMPC) and author of Trading Economics: A Guide to Economic Statistics for Practitioners.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

As part of the Board’s efforts to provide more to its members, ITFA is pleased to announce that it has recently reached an agreement with eBSI Export Academy, Certified Online Training in Export, Finance and Supply Chain Management (SCM). eBSI has kindly offered our members 2 free online courses in the Finance of International Trade […]

Thursday, February 5th, 2015

The ITFA Board is pleased to announce the following new members. 

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

Silja Calac has joined Swiss Re Corporate Solutions in January, as senior surety underwriter. She will be based in the company’s office in Frankfurt and will be responsible for further expanding its surety business for banks. She will report to Azman Noorani, Head of Surety and Trade Credit Insurance.

Monday, December 15th, 2014

ITFA is pleased to announce that it has recently signed a global media partnership agreement with GTR bringing more value to ITFA’s members. For more information on the partnership please click on the following link.

Sunday, November 23rd, 2014

After 12 years with Raiffeisen Bank International, Semih Özcan MA has recently moved to Denizbank AG in Vienna, as Division Head of Financial Institution & Trade Finance. Mr Özcan brings with him a wealth of expertise in the Loan Syndicaton.  At Raiffeisen Bank International he headed the Secondary Loan Trading, and before that he was […]

Wednesday, October 1st, 2014

It is with pleasure that ITFA announces yet another barter agreement, this time with ICC – International Chamber of Commerce, for the launch of the 3rd Supply Chain Financing Summit

Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

The International Forfaiting Association has added “trade” to its wider remit to become the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) in a bid to continue its development