Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Despite budget cuts, layoffs and swine flu, the Association of Trade and Forfaiting in the Americas’ (“ATFA”) recent conference was a success. The event, ATFA’s 12th annual conference, was held in San Diego, California between 20th and 22nd May. It was well attended and included a wide range of panel topics from the US Troubled […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

On 16th June there will be a cocktail party at the Escape Bar in Sao Paolo. It will co-sponsored by both ITFA and ATFA (Association of Trade and Forfaiting in the Americas) and will be attended by both ITFA Chairman Lucio Matassoni and ATFA Board Member Hernan Mayol.

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.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Discounted applications are now available for the International Chamber of Commerce, International Trade Finance Conference Week in Vienna. ITFA members can enjoy a 20% discount on the regular conference rates for the entire event or for individual days. The Conference Week runs from 11th to 15th May. In order to benefit from these special ITFA […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The International Chamber of Commerce is to hold its annual International Trade Finance Conference Week in Vienna. The event, which will be held between 11th and 15th May, is to be hosted by RZB Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich at their Am Stadtpark 9, premises. The week includes an extremely wide variety of presentations and discussions under […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Representatives of banks throughout the Central and Eastern Europe Region attended the half-day educational course on UCP600, held in Vienna on 29th January. At the event, hosted by Bank Austria, Radek Dobas, the highly experienced Head of Documentary Payments at Ceska Sporitelna, spoke about the International Chamber of Commerce rules for documentary credits set out […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Almost 100 people attended the event that took place at Accountants Hall in the City of London on Thursday evening 5th February. Those invited had been drawn from around the Northern European region and represented a good cross section of the market. “Even if funding is presenting difficulties to finalising transactions, the strong turn out […]

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 […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

ITFA’s Prague conference was one of the most successful in the nine-year history of the Association. The 185 attendees from 34 countries gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel on Wednesday 3rd September in the historic Czech Republic capital for the two-day event, which culminated in cocktail reception and gala dinner at St. Agnes Monastery. At the […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The ITFA Association kindly encourage a representative of your esteemed bank to subscribe the ITFA co-sponsored event on “Structured Commodity & Trade Finance Asia” conference on 26-28 August 2008 in Singapore and hereby thank you in advance if you could make sure to pass the subject information to any of your local branches and/or colleagues […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

ITFA will stage an education course on 2nd and 3rd September ahead of this year’s annual conference in Prague, which will be open to members and non-members of ITFA. As the latest in its series of education events, ITFA will hold the course at the InterContinental Hotel on the afternoon of Tuesday 2nd and morning […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The 11th annual ATFA conference confirmed that forfaiting is playing a bigger part in global supply chain financing in the wake of the credit crunch. The annual conference of the Association of Trade and Forfaiting in the Americas that took place in Miami 21st to 23rd May was attended by 80 delegates. They were drawn […]