ITFA CEERC Traditional Annual Spring event – 12 April, Budapest, Hungary

The ITFA Board is pleased to announce that ITFA’s CEERC (Central and Eastern European Regional Committee) is organizing its yearly Educational Event on Thursday 12th April 2018. This year, we are pleased to announce that, for the very first time, the event is going to be held in Budapest, Hungary at the premises of OTP Bank Plc, Baber Street 9, 1131 Budapest, in the Presidential Meeting Room on the 6th floor (No 624).

Agenda details as follows:

13:00   Registration

13:30   Opening Speech

• Mr. Semih Özcan – DenizBank AG and ITFA Chairman – CEE Regional Committee

13:45   Economy of CEE

• Mr. Gergely Tardos – Chief Economist – OTP Bank Plc

14:30   Coffee Break

14:45   The activities of ITFA and CEE Regional Committee

• Mr. Semih Özcan

15:30   Development of Trade Finance in Eastern Europe and the CIS

• Mr. Rudolf Putz – Head Trade Facilitation Programme – EBRD

16:15   Coffee Break

16:30   Market Practice Committee updates, including the Impact of IFRS9 on Distributions

• Paul Coles, HSBC Bank Plc and ITFA Head of Market Practice

17:15  Digital Transformation and the Emergence of a New Ecosystem in Supply Chain Finance

• Thomas Strahlhofer  – UniCredit S.p.A.

18:00  Closing remarks

• Mr. Semih Özcan

Following the Educational Event, all participants are invited to a cocktail reception at 19:00 hrs, at Spoon The Boat Restaurant.

All those ITFA members who will be in the region on the day are encouraged to attend. Kindly RSVP to alexiavella@itfa.org in order to confirm your attendance by no later than 27 March 2018.

We hope that many of you can make it to this ITFA event. We look forward to meeting you in Budapest!