Final programme ITFA year-end Market Update Seminar and Christmas Party 2021 – 6 December

The ITFA Board wishes to invite its members to the ITFA Christmas Party 2021. This year’s event is taking place on Monday 6 December 2021 at Savage Garden Rooftop Bar of the Doubletree, Tower of London Hotel. We have hired the entire 12th floor to accommodate our expected numbers and give you more space to mingle and network.
 
You are invited to join us as from 2pm to attend our year-end Market Update Seminar taking place at the same location and entitled “Market developments: expectations for 2022”. The agenda and panelists are now confirmed as follows:
 
13:45 Welcome coffee @ Garden suites 1, 2 and 3
 
14:00 Welcome by ITFA Chairman
 
14:15 Trade Credit Insurance – Basle III compliant standardised policy wording: one of the key themes driving developments in the bank – insurance market in 2022

• Marcus Miller, Managing Director, Global Lenders Solutions Group Leader, Marsh
• David H. Neckar, Client Director, Financial Solutions, Willis Tower Watson
• Carol Searle, General Counsel, Texel Finance
• Moderator: Silja Calac, Banco Santander and ITFA Board Member 

15:00 Trade Finance Funds – now we have the technology, how can we attract more institutional investors to the trade space?

• Zubin Bagwadia, Managing Director, Global Head of Distribution and Financial Institutions Sales, FI Trade & Portfolio Distribution, HSBC
• Nils Behling, CFO, Tradeteq and Member Fintech Committee, ITFA
• Bart Ras, Managing Director, Pemberton Asset Management
• Moderator: Geoff Wynne, Partner, Sullivan 

15:45 Break

16:15 Trade Finance Ecosystems, Open Banking and Platforms – are we heading towards interoperability?

• Carl Williamson, Head of Trade Finance, UK Export Finance
• Milena Torciano, CEO, Mitigram
• Patrik Zekkar, CEO, Enigio
• Moderator: André Casterman, Founder, Casterman Advisory and ITFA Board Member 

17:00 Financing Trade in Emerging Markets – what will drive future strategies?

• Natalia Sokolova, Head of Multinationals and Financial Institutions, Zenith Bank
• Rudolf Putz, Deputy Director Financial Institutions, Head Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD
• Vaibhav Chaudhary, Director, Trade Asset Sales, Standard Chartered Bank
• Simon Cook, Partner, Sullivan and ITFA Board Member
• Moderator: Karl Page, Structuring & Syndications, Barclays Bank and Chair NERC, ITFA 

17:45 Closing remarks and networking
 
18:30 Christmas party @ Savage Garden Rooftop Bar

May we kindly point out that the numbers are restricted to 2 delegates per member institution for the Seminar and 5 delegates per ITFA member institution for the Christmas Party. The Main Delegate of each institution is requested to RSVP by sending an email indicating the names of your colleagues who will be attending the Seminar, the names of those attending the Christmas Party or both.

Access to the event is restricted to confirmed representatives of ITFA members only. We are only able to accept registrations which reach us by RSVP email by latest Wednesday 24 November 2021. We would like to draw your attention that registration for both the seminar and the event are reaching the maximum numbers therefore, anyone who has not yet registered, kindly do so at the earliest. For anyone who cannot attend but has already registered, please let us know. 

For those who will be travelling to the UK for this event, you can benefit from special rates at the Doubletree by Hilton London. Should you wish to have more information, please send an email to lanika@itfa.org.
 
Finally, please note that the event is subject to cancellation and any restrictions imposed by Government to deal with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

CPD hours: this seminar qualifies for 3 CPD points.