Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

The ITFA Board is pleased to announce that ITFA’s CEERC (Central and Eastern European Regional Committee) is organizing its yearly Educational Event on Wednesday 13th April commencing at 13:00 hrs in Vienna, at the premises of UniCredit Bank Austria AG.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

We are pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural ITFA Citizenship Award. This new award is intended to recognise outstanding examples of how trade finance benefits communities in developing economies. The submissions process is now open, and we invite member institutions around the world to submit details of transactions that have contributed to the […]

Thursday, February 25th, 2016

The ITFA Board is pleased to announce that the ITFA 2016 Calendar of Events can now be accessed on the ITFA website, as had been promised in our January Newsletter. We encourage you all to access this page on a regular basis, in order to keep abreast of all upcoming ITFA events, as we will […]

Friday, February 5th, 2016

The ITFA Board is delighted to inform you that it has secured 2 passes, each with a 50% discount for ITFA members to attend the GTR Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference 2016. This event is being held at Shangri-La, Istanbul between 22 and 23 March.

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

As part of the Board’s efforts to provide more to its members, ITFA is pleased to announce that it has reached another agreement with eBSI Export Academy, which ITFA members can benefit from, when enrolling for the Online Distance Learning program called the International Trade Specialist (ITS) Accreditation program.

Monday, January 18th, 2016

The ITFA German Regional Committee (GRC) is organizing a presentation of the ITFA Insurance Committee on Thursday April 21, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main. The event is for ITFA Members only with a maximum of 3 market participants per Member attending. Access will be restricted to confirmed guests only. The presentation will be followed by the Annual Stammtisch.

Thursday, January 7th, 2016

First and foremost, the ITFA Board would like you wish you a Happy New Year and all the very best for 2016. As announced during our AGM in Dubai earlier this year, and further reinforced during the Christmas Cocktail Party in London, ITFA is committed to ensuring Trade Finance as a key enabler of world trade […]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

This year’s workshop for senior forfaiters took place in Frankfurt am Main on November 19, 2015. AKA Ausfuhrkredit-Gesellschaft mbH hosted the workshop in the afternoon, which was followed by an invitation from the ITFA Board, Zürich, to the Christmas dinner for all participants of the workshop. Both events were well attended. As in previous years the […]

Thursday, October 29th, 2015

The Association of Forfaiters in Switzerland (VEFI) and ITFA would like to invite you to the VEFI Christmas Cocktail 2015. This event is being held in Zurich on Thursday, 03 December from 17:30 hrs till 20:00 hrs. To view the formal invite, please click here.

Thursday, October 29th, 2015

Following ITFA’s Annual Conference held last month in Dubai, the ITFA Board is pleased to inform you that ITFA will now be giving increasing focus to Young Professionals and has created a Young Professionals function, headed by Chris Hall. To complement this, ITFA will now be actively using Twitter and Linkedin. These two forms of social media will […]

Monday, October 26th, 2015

The ITFA Board is pleased to announce that it has recently reached an agreement with Nimai Management Consultants Limited, a financial and management advisory services firm serving Bangladeshi clients and banks for the last 5 years. Nimai is organizing the Asian Banking Summit 2015 in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 3rd and 4th November 2015 titled – Evolving Paradigms in Risk Management.

Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

In collaboration with Sullivan & Worcester, ITFA is pleased to invite you to yet another Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar entitled “Learning to Love Conflict”. This seminar is going to be held on Tuesday 3rd November, at Pinners Hall, London, UK. Registration and breakfast are at 8:15 am followed by the seminar from 8:30 till 10:00 am.