Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

The North East Asia Regional Committee (NEARC) has successfully held its Luncheon Party on 29 January 2015 in Beijing celebrating the upcoming Chinese New Year. During the party, 14 participants from 9 NEARC members including BOC, ICBC, ABC, China CITIC, Bank of Jiangsu, China Everbright Bank, CCB, China Merchants Bank and China Minsheng Banking Corp. exchange views […]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

Last year we asked members to contribute to a survey being carried out by Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the demand and supply of trade finance, and particularly forfaiting facilities. Those contributions, together with data from other associations, has been used to create ADB’s 2013 Trade Finance Gap Survey.  Please click here.  The findings are very instructive for […]

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

The ITFA Young Professionals Network is pleased to announce that it has successfully held its first roundtable in partnership with GTR. At the roundtable, participants discussed current trends in trade finance markets globally, and gave their views on the career prospects for the next generation of trade finance professionals within the industry. To view the […]

Monday, January 19th, 2015

An extremely encouraging start for 2015! It is with immense pleasure that ITFA announces a further 3 institutions that have become ITFA  members.

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Further to the email circulated on the 09th December 2014, the ITFA Board is pleased to announce that the board of the NERC has now been officially set up as follows: Co-Chairs: Dalia Kay of Federated Investors  &  Zeyno de Vries-Davutoglu of Credit Europe Bank N.V.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

During a meeting in Milan on 5th of February 2014, the President of the ITFA (International Trade and Forfaiting Association), Mr Paolo Provera and the Secretary General of IFG (International Factors Group), represented by Mr Erik Timmermans signed a cooperation agreement between their respective organizations. IFG will become Associated Member in ITFA and ITFA will […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

All presentations of the AGM 2013 in Malta are available under Event Downloads

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The ITFA Board has recently decided to launch a Survey among its members to gain an indication of the volume of Forfaiting. We believe that the development of the Forfaiting market should be properly identified to help the ITFA to establish its impact on global trade finance and to better represent our Association in front […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

BAFT-IFSA has just published some new definitions of traditional trade finance to facilitate dialogue with regulators and governments. These definitions now grade trade finance risk according to a series of “risk clusters”. The ITFA has made the following comments to the international trade finance press on these definitions: ” The Risk Clusters are a very […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Post Conference Sean Edwards reflects on the best of what trade finance offered at the ITFA Conference in Vienna, and Clarissa Dann (TFR) reports from the Vienna Event Click here for the articles.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

ITFA education course on September 7th and 8th 2010 in Berlin The education course held by Richard Willsher during the ITFA meeting in Berlin on 7th and 8th of September 2010 was great! Back at work we realised quickly that we can apply all the concepts we have been studying. Tying loose ends together will […]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

As a dynamic and modern Association that wants all its members to be connected in the best possible way, exchange views, ideas and market information, ITFA created a web-page at LinkedIn. We call for all members to join our page at LinkedIn.com and make our communication more alive!