Announcements


Zouzoukis speaks in Budapest

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA board member Demetris Zouzoukis has given a key presentation at this year’s annual BACEE conference in Budapest. The 23rd Banking Association for Central and Eastern Europe’s Country and Bank Conference took place at Budapest’s Danubius Health Spa Resort on the island of Margitsziget on 18th and 19th November. The 75 delegates who attended the […]

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Head of the German Regional Committee

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Regional Committees’ Update: It is announced that Mrs. Silja Calac, Head of Trade Risk Management at Unicredit AG, Munich has replaced Armin Smalzgruber as Head of the German Regional Committee.

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New chairman and Board members at ITFA

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

News from ITFA’s Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting in Rome is that following the retirement of four members of ITFA’s board, former Treasurer Paolo Provera has been elected Chairman and new officers have been elected. At the AGM, which took place of Thursday 3rd September, four members of the board stepped down having fulfilled […]

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Southern Europe Regional Committee elects new members

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

ITFA’s Southern Europe Regional Committee (SERC) has elected two new members. Amid turmoil in a number of Southern European region markets, attendance at SERC’s meeting in Milan on 12th March was somewhat depleted. Nonetheless two new members were elected to the committee: Mr. Stefano Cesari of Unicredito, and Mr. Paolo Jelmoni of Reginato & Mercante, […]

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New regional committee in Brazil

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

A new ITFA Brazilian Regional Committee has now been established. The new committee was formally ratified by ITFA’s Board on 6th March 2009. It has initially four members: Renato Schulman of Banco Finantia, the Committee’s Chairman; Guilherme Gottardi of Banco Fibra, Alexandre Ozzetti of London Forfaiting Company and representing ATFA, The Association of Trade & […]

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Website improvements

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

If you have had trouble accessing some of the material on the ITFA website over recent weeks, we are pleased to tell you that we have now fixed the problems. Following relaunch of the site there were one or two teething problems and our technicians have now sorted them out. But if you feel that […]

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Our thanks to Norbert Fritsch

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Norbert, who works for HVB in Munich, has completed two three-year terms on ITFA’s Board and therefore under our Board mandate he is obliged to step down. But we will miss him. “He has brought to ITFA his three decades of experience of trade finance and forfaiting, as well as playing a vital role on […]

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Investkredit Bank joins ITFA

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Investkredit is part of Volksbank Group and is responsible for its corporate and real estate business. It has offices in 7 countries in Central and South Eastern Europe including Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine and has a well-developed capability in international structured and trade finance. The bank’s business streams include providing advice on […]

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The Receivables Exchange joins ITFA

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

New ITFA member The Receivables Exchange is a platform established to give private companies rapid access to working capital. Headquartered in New Orleans with an office in New York, qualifying companies can list their invoices on The Receivables Exchange where capital providers bid to buy the receivables. The Exchange’s target is the massive accounts receivable […]

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ITFA Website Redesign

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Work is currently being carried out to improve the ITFA website and make several changes to enhance the user experience. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause, and reassure users that this should only be a minor disruption which should be completed over the next few days.

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Final details of annual conference expected shortly

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Those wishing to attend ITFA’s 9th Annual conference in Prague from 3rd to 5th September will be receiving programme details in the next few days. In the meantime International Conference Solutions Ltd.
which is organizing the conference will be delighted to handle preliminary enquiries. Contact details are: Tel: + 44 208 515 7959 
Fax: + 44 […]

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Welcome to Our New Look Website

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association has launched its next generation web site with more content and improved navigation We hope our redesigned site will now do a better job of assisting both ITFA members and non-members. We’ve updated the content and improved the navigation and aimed to give it a more user-friendly look and […]

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