Education


An Economic Overview of the Americas: US & Latin American Perspectives – 8th April 2021

Thursday, March 25th, 2021

Please join ITFA Americas for an informative and insightful webinar session from key industry experts to address the current economic and political risk landscape across the Americas, lingering COVID impacts as well as the ever important regional highlights in Latin America. The webinar will be held on 8th April at 10 am NY / 11 am Sao Paulo / 4 pm Central Europe.

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RFIx – Receivables Finance International Convention 2021 – discounts for ITFA members

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

We are pleased to announce that ITFA will be partnering with BCR for its upcoming 21st annual Receivables Finance International Convention. This flagship event for the receivables finance industry provides an essential update on the latest invoice financing trends, market challenges and innovations. This 3 day event will be held between 18-20th May 2021.

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GBP / SONIA market practice bulletin

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

In addition to the recent joint communication by ITFA and BAFT, the ITFA Market Practice Committee would like to draw attention to some practical considerations for those of you providing trade financing in GBP.

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Greensill in Australia

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021

The ripples of the collapse of Greensill continue to be felt around the world not forgetting its home country of Australia. ITFA contributed to this piece published in the Australian Financial Review.

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ITFA Newsflash

Monday, March 8th, 2021

ITFA is aware of recent concerns raised about the supply chain finance market and related-insurance cover. ITFA has provided its members with guidance on payables finance dating back to October 2018 highlighting the importance of the correct use of this critical trade product which has performed well during the Covid-19 pandemic with many programmes expanding both in size and scope of supplier capture.

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ITFA Insurance Webinar -2021: Continuity and change in the Insurance Market – 5 March 2021

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

The Insurance Committee is thrilled to continue its series of Friday afternoon learning sessions on Insurance related topics with a look at how the Insurance market for Global Transaction Banking will evolve in 2021. This webinar is kindly being sponsored by Texel.

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ITFA CEERC webinar – Accelerate Recovery And Growth Through Trade Digitization

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

The ITFA CEERC is pleased to inform you of its upcoming webinar. The webinar entitled: ”Accelerate recovery and growth through trade digitization” will be held on Thursday 29 April 2021.

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UK Japan Free Trade Virtual Summit – 20 January 2021

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

The ITFA Board is pleased to inform you about the UK-Japan Free Trade Summit, a one-day virtual event, which will take placeon the 20th of January 2021. We are delighted to inform you that ITFA has secured 2 passes, each with a 50% discount for ITFA members to attend this event. As is customary, the discounted passes will be available to […]

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GTR Nordics Virtual 2020, 10/11 November – discounts for ITFA members

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

We are pleased to announce that ITFA will be partnering with Global Trade Review (GTR) for its upcoming event GTR Nordics 2020 taking place virtually on November 10-11.

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ITFA GRC Educational Webinar: Trade Finance Distribution (TFD) Initiative – 20 November 2020

Monday, October 26th, 2020

The ITFA German Regional Committee is pleased to invite you to an educational webinar on Trade Finance Distribution (TFD) Initiative.
Date & Time: Friday, November 20th 2020 – 13:00 BST / 14:00 CEST
Duration: 1 1/2h
Language: The webinar will be held in German

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ITFA releases the dDOC specifications to help digitize guarantees & negotiable instruments

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

The dDOC (for digital document) specifications are designed around three building blocks:
1) The digital container designed using “Ricardian” contracts and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON);
2) the electronic signatures and stamps; and
3) the shared public distributed ledger technology (DLT) acting as digital notary.

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European politics and business after COVID-19 – WTW webinar – 8 September 2020

Monday, August 31st, 2020

ITFA is pleased to announce that Silja Calac, ITFA Board Member and Chairperson of the ITFA Insurance Committee, will be one of the speakers at the upcoming webinar organised by Willis Towers Watson (WTW). The webinar titled ”European politics and business after Covid-19” will be held on Tuesday 8th September 2020 between 12:30 – 13:30 BST.

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