ITFA LIVE Event – Save The Date – 12 August 2021

YOU ARE NO LONGER ON MUTE!

As announced a few weeks ago, the ITFA Board is extremely excited to let you know about its very first in person event of 2021. We are back for our first live event of the year – the ITFA NERC Summer Party. The event will take place on Thursday 12 August at Savage Garden Rooftop Bar – Wildside, on the 12th floor of the Doubletree by Hilton London, Tower of London.

We will welcome you with tea and coffee from 3:30pm. The event will then commence at 4pm with a Seminar, followed by Networking Drinks from 6pm onwards.

The Seminar is all about Liquidity Management: How is Trade Finance Helping? The management of liquidity remains a significant challenge for many companies; recent trends in the solutions companies adopt have seen a shift away from the traditional practice of relying on medium-term revolving credit facilities, towards more targeted, shorter-term liquidity solutions. What part is trade finance playing in addressing the modern needs of corporate customers? Are banks effective in providing solutions for SMEs as well as large multinationals?

We will have 3 topical panel discussions:

• Payables and receivables financing – how effective have these products been in helping companies with their liquidity? What impact has recent negative publicity surrounding payables financing had on how these products are perceived?
• Technology – what part is technology playing in developing and delivering solutions?
• Credit support/risk distribution – to what extent is the insurance market supporting liquidity needs? Are banks and financiers able to take advantage of the additional capacity insurance provides? What liquidity solutions are governments providing?

We are proud to announce that 2 of our members have kindly agreed to sponsor this event. We sincerely would like to thank Demica and Willis Towers Watson for their generosity and support of ITFA. Without their valuable contribution we would not have been in a position to host our first LIVE event of 2021. 

Each member institution is entitled to 4 invites. We kindly ask each main delegate to send an email to lanika@itfa.org, indicating who will be attending from his/her respective institution. We would appreciate it if you could RSVP by latest 9 July, as we need to plan well in advance due to the current Covid situation.

For those of you who will be travelling to the UK, you can benefit from fantastic rates at the Doubletree by Hilton London, by accessing this site. Should you have issues with the accommodation, please send an email to alexiavella@itfa.org, and we will help you out.

We are so excited to host you – we simply cannot wait!

But in the meantime, we urge you all to SAVE THE DATE. More details regarding speakers and panelists to follow in due course.