Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Representatives of banks throughout the Central and Eastern Europe Region attended the half-day educational course on UCP600, held in Vienna on 29th January. At the event, hosted by Bank Austria, Radek Dobas, the highly experienced Head of Documentary Payments at Ceska Sporitelna, spoke about the International Chamber of Commerce rules for documentary credits set out […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Almost 100 people attended the event that took place at Accountants Hall in the City of London on Thursday evening 5th February. Those invited had been drawn from around the Northern European region and represented a good cross section of the market. “Even if funding is presenting difficulties to finalising transactions, the strong turn out […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Twenty-eight people from all over the world attended the forfaiting seminar in Prague on 2nd and 3rd September, ahead of the conference. The course, which spanned two half-days, was an introduction to best practice in forfaiting and covered, among other things, risk assessment, how to carry out discount calculations, documentary issues and considerations of how […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

ITFA’s Prague conference was one of the most successful in the nine-year history of the Association. The 185 attendees from 34 countries gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel on Wednesday 3rd September in the historic Czech Republic capital for the two-day event, which culminated in cocktail reception and gala dinner at St. Agnes Monastery. At the […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The ITFA Association kindly encourage a representative of your esteemed bank to subscribe the ITFA co-sponsored event on “Structured Commodity & Trade Finance Asia” conference on 26-28 August 2008 in Singapore and hereby thank you in advance if you could make sure to pass the subject information to any of your local branches and/or colleagues […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

ITFA will stage an education course on 2nd and 3rd September ahead of this year’s annual conference in Prague, which will be open to members and non-members of ITFA. As the latest in its series of education events, ITFA will hold the course at the InterContinental Hotel on the afternoon of Tuesday 2nd and morning […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The 11th annual ATFA conference confirmed that forfaiting is playing a bigger part in global supply chain financing in the wake of the credit crunch. The annual conference of the Association of Trade and Forfaiting in the Americas that took place in Miami 21st to 23rd May was attended by 80 delegates. They were drawn […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The 34th Annual Forfaiting Conference has taken place in Cannes, France on 5th-7th of September with the highest number of participants. 120 institutions from 32 different countries were represented by more than 200 delegates at the conference. The Agenda, participants list, presentations and more are available for download in the Members’ Area.

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

This year, the 34th International Forfaiting Conference will be held in Cannes, France from Wednesday 5th September to Friday 7th September. Downloadable resources are available in the member area.

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

A Cocktail Reception was held in London on 17th april 2007 at Stationers’ Hall in honour of Mr Hans Joerg Egli, the Founder and First Chairman of the ITFA to celebrate his retirement. The Reception was organized by The Board of the International Forfaiting Association together with the ITFA Northern Europe Regional Committee and was […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The 2-day ITFA Education Course which took place in Dubai on 28th & 29th of November was attended by 43 delegates from 13 different countries. The ITFA Board is grateful to the main sponsor of the event, Mashreqbank Dubai for their tremendous support in the organization of this succesful event. The list of attendees, the […]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

The ITFA Education Course which took place in Frankfurt/Main on 25th of October was organised by the German Regional Committee. Addressing newcomers to the Market the presentations covered basic knowledge on forfaiting, legal aspects, documentary requirements, calculation methods according to market standards as well as the Guidelines, Users’ Guide and the MPC Bulletins While at […]