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

More than 70 delegates attended a reception in Singapore on 6th June to mark the inauguration of ITFA’s new India and South Asia Regional Committee. The attendees represented the major banks and forfaiting houses in the region, most of which are based in Singapore. The new Committee’s chairman, Unicredit Singapore’s Charles Brough, comments that to […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The Paris-based multilateral trade body is best known in the forfaiting market for its Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits and other key rulebooks for facilitating international trade. It has now constituted a Forfaiting Task Force that has commented on the Primary Guide soon to be released by ITFA.

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 […]

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 […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The leading Greek financial services group aims to expand its forfaiting business having joined the ITFA in April 2008. NBG Group has assets of over €84 billion and operates in 10 countries in South Eastern Europe including Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and countries of the Former Yugoslavia. It has substantial and longstanding trade finance operations […]

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 […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The eagerly awaited ITFA guide to the primary forfaiting market is expected to be released before the September conference in Prague. At a 6th May presentation at the offices of City of London lawyers Denton Wilde Sapte, Denton’s partner Simon Cook and ITFA Market Practice Committee Co-Chairman Sean Edwards introduced the first draft of the […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The 34th Annual Forfaiting Conference has taken place in Cannes, France on 5th-7th of September with the highest number of participants. 120 institutions from 32 different countries were represented by more than 200 delegates at the conference. The Agenda, participants list, presentations and more are available for download in the Members’ Area.

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Lloyds TSB Bank joined the ITFA. The ITFA Board express their warmest gratitude and wish for a profitable forfaiting business.

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Fransabank SAL joined the ITFA. The ITFA Board express their warmest gratitude and wish for a profitable forfaiting business.