ITFA Emerging Leaders Competition – Webinar on 16 October 2020

Further to our recent announcement of the ITFA Emerging Trade Financier Award shortlist, we would now kindly invite you to register for the webinar where the shortlisted projects will be showcased and try to attract your vote.

As a reminder, the projects shortlisted for this year’s award are:

• A New Institutional Asset Class in Trade Finance? by Alejandro Battistotti                          
• Whitepaper: Microfinance-based Trade Solution to Remove Credit Risk Constraints for Banks & Support SME Trade in Unstable Times by Alex Mearing
• In the era of digitalization – software export support by selected ECAs and suggestions thereof by Didem Erdogan           
• A guide to Trade Finance Law by Julian Heaven                             
• The life cycle of a Trade (Video format) by Texel                            

The quality of the submissions was such, that the panel of jurors felt it had also to raise a special mention to the submission entitled Negotiable Instruments are going through a makeover – the who, what, where, why by Mohamed Elnaggar. This project will also be presented during this webinar.

Webinar details:

Date: Friday 16 October 2020
Time: 1.00pm London time
Duration: approximately 75 minutes
Host: Shannon Manders, Editorial Director, Global Trade Review
Platform: Zoom – Zoom joining details will be sent out after registering and closer to the webinar date
RSVP until 12pm London time on Wednesday 14 October: Lanika Desira – lanika@itfa.org

Immediately after the webinar finishes, all registered participants will receive an email asking them to vote for their preferred project via an online platform. The winner will be announced at the ITFA Annual General Meeting taking place (virtually) on the 1 December 2020.

We want this event to be a celebration of the talented contributions that these projects have made to the trade finance industry. As such, we are inviting as many existing and aspiring trade financiers as possible to attend and support these Emerging Leaders of our industry in this important venture! Please do register asap. The event is not exclusive for ITFA members but representatives of ITFA members do take priority in registration due to platform capacity issues.