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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Structured or ‘Synthetic’ LCs are sometimes seen as a bit of a dirty little secret in Emerging Market Trade Finance.
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On November 20th 2020, the ITFA German Regional Committee organized an educational webinar on Trade Finance Distribution (TFD) Initiative.
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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.
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