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 […]

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, February 2nd, 2015

The TFR Cross-border Trade Forum is being held on the 18th of March 2015 in Central London. This is a one-day event that celebrates the real deals on the ground that underpins today’s economy.

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 […]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

  The factoring and commercial finance industry met in Brussels for the first time ever for a summit aiming at joining forces and developing common solutions to support the real economy.  Read more by clicking here. Left to right: Magdalena Wessel (Chief Legal Counsel, Deutscher Factoring-Verband), John Gielen (EUF Chairman), Michaël Theurer (Member of European […]

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.

Monday, December 29th, 2014

ITFA has the pleasure of announcing a 30% discount to all of its members wishing to register for the Certificate of Finance in International Trade (COFIT).

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

ITFA takes the opportunity to remind all its members about the following upcoming event, being brought to you in collaboration with BAFT.

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 […]