Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

How many times have you heard a child or a teenager, or even someone in their early twenties say that their greatest aspiration is to become a trade financier? Never? Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

In December 2020 ITFA member The Texel Group, a Non Payment Insurance (NPI) broker, shared the results of their NPI Insurer COVID-19 survey which was coordinated between their London, Singapore, New York and Brussels offices and included responses from 67 underwriting teams across the respective underwriting hubs.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

This document outlines our current areas of work – as of February 2021– and in each case includes a brief description of the topic and a status update.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

ITFA is pleased to welcome the following institutions to its growing family:

– Aronova Interactive Ltd
– HFW 
– KCS Group Europe Limited

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Rejoice, rejoice! …maybe. International institutions such as the United Nations in World Economic Situation and Prospects for 2021 and central banks such as the Bank of England are expecting a rapid rebound of our economy later during the year.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

ITFA’s Silja Calac interviews AIG’s Global Head of Trade Finance, Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle, on why supply chain resilience matters, and how we as risk-takers can act on it.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Data sharing, digitisation, and harmonisation of SME credit insurance practices are key ingredients to attract more funding to the trade asset class.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

As we entered 2021, the Brexit transition period came to an end and Great Britain and the European Union now face a new normal of customs duties and declarations when trading across the border.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

As you are aware, ITFA continues to cooperate with Hume Brophy to help our regulators to better understand the mechanism of credit risk insurance and how cooperation between insurance companies and banks has a beneficial impact on real economy.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Pouya Jafari of tradeXplain and the ITFA Emerging Leaders Committee spoke to Bruce Pounder, Executive Director at GAAP Lab, about the relationship between corporate financial reporting and trade finance.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

ITFA is pleased to welcome the following three institutions to its growing family:

– Anthem Bank & Trust
– Artis Finance Limited
– Traxpay GmbH

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

On behalf of the ITFA Board, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year and all the very best for 2021.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

Q1. Why did you decide to stand for the ITFA Board elections?
ITFA is one of the key trade finance industry bodies next to organisations like the ICC, BAFT and others, and…

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

Although it is a myth that the word “unprecedented” was the top Google search in 2020 (the top search was “coronavirus”, followed by “election results”), the year that was certainly felt like an unprecedented period of time in our lives.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

There is no doubt that 2020 has been a pivotal year for trade digitisation. Technologies have evolved so much over the recent 2-3 years, and the most innovative ones such as electronic signatures and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), are being more and more accepted in financial services.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

Structured or ‘Synthetic’ LCs are sometimes seen as a bit of a dirty little secret in Emerging Market Trade Finance.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

On November 20th 2020, the ITFA German Regional Committee organized an educational webinar on Trade Finance Distribution (TFD) Initiative.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

Trade finance distribution has been receiving exponentially more interest and investment over the last decade – driven by tighter regulations, narrowing credit appetite, liquidity, enhanced client demand driven by increase in trade and many more.

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

ITFA is pleased to welcome the following two institutions to its growing family:

– GlobalTrade Corporation
– Price Forbes & Partners Ltd

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

We come to the end of a year that I am sure all of us would rather not have lived through and certainly never expected.