Friday, June 21st, 2024

France has adopted MLETR following Singapore, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi Global Market and the United Kingdom. Germany and the US to follow as well soon.

Friday, June 21st, 2024

On 21 May ITFA’s Africa Regional Committee (ARC) held a breakfast briefing in Nairobi shortly before the opening of GTR East Africa 2024.

Friday, June 21st, 2024

In the Voices from our Regions you will find two articles contributed by the ITFA SERC Committee in relation to the events they organised in the past month.

Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Dear Members and Friends,

I hope this message finds you
in good health and high spirits.  As we step into a new month, I’m
managing a few days in the office following a busy conference round over the
last few weeks.

Friday, May 24th, 2024

The ITFA Project Tracker offers a concise snapshot of the various projects and initiatives that ITFA is currently engaged in. Using a red, amber, green (RAG) status system, it visually indicates the progress and current status of each project.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

ITFA chairman Sean Edwards was awarded the Director’s Award for the individual who has made the greatest contribution to the digitalisation of international trade by the ICC UK and the UK’s Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation (C4DTI) at their annual conference last month.

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

ITFA’s fraud prevention working group has published its first whitepaper aimed at helping the trade finance market tackle the perpetual challenge of cross-border fraud.

Tuesday, May 21st, 2024

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

– Diot Siaci
– Lonmar

Tuesday, May 21st, 2024

The publication of the GCD report Credit Risk in Credit Insurance is a significant milestone in our advocacy efforts for credit insurance. The report commissioned and funded by ITFA in December 2023.

Thursday, May 16th, 2024

On May 7th ITFA’s African Regional Committee (ARC) held the first in this year’s series of educational webinars, chaired by the ARC Secretariat, Tedd George.

Thursday, May 16th, 2024

In April four members of ITFA’s Africa Regional Committee (ARC) participated in GTR West Africa, using the occasion to advocate strongly for ITFA and encourage African financial institutions and professionals to get involved in the ARC’s work.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

The memo was commissioned by the ITFA Insurance Committee to support the EBA with its report to the European Commission on credit risk insurance and the industry’s ongoing regulatory advocacy efforts to see a better capital treatment for credit insurance used as eligible credit risk mitigation under Basel III.

Monday, April 29th, 2024

In another bustling month at ITFA, we witnessed a myriad of remarkable achievements and activities. April commenced with events in Dubai, marking the beginning of a series of engagements that traversed California and New York. Alongside Andre Casterman, I represented ITFA at the Trade & Investment Forum held in London.

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024

Sean Edwards, ITFA chair, gave his views on the market to Demica’s 2024 Benchmark Report for Banks in Trade Finance. This is Demica’s third annual report covering key trends across all supply chain finance products.

Thursday, April 25th, 2024

Alberto Carrion Morillo was appointed as the new head of a revamped ITFA Southern European Committee (SERC) earlier this year. He has set himself the dual goal of boosting ITFA membership in the region as well as putting together a packed schedule of educational events and networking opportunities to foster better conversations on relevant market issues.

Friday, April 26th, 2024

Don’t miss two articles featuring the dynamic roundtable hosted by GTR MENA in collaboration with us in Dubai and our educational event – Lunch & Learn in California.

Thursday, April 25th, 2024

ITFA is pleased to welcome four institutions to its growing family:

– Basisbank
– DRUM Advisory Limited
– MS Amlin
– Tech Cargo

Thursday, April 25th, 2024

ITFA is anticipating “good take-up” of its newly launched Master Account Receivables Assignment Agreement (Mara) template – a new tool available to members to standardise the distribution of open account assets.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

I stepped in recently to replace a wounded colleague (speedy recovery, Gary B!) at a Sanctions Masterclass held by our partners ICC UK. My slightly cynical take on the subject certainly got some laughs but there are some deep conundrums here to which there are no easy answers (other than the naturally British reaction to deploy humour).

Monday, March 25th, 2024

Representatives from ITFA and a number of other industry bodies had an encouraging meeting with the European Banking Association (EBA) last month about the impact of finalised Basel III regulations on the use of credit insurance.