Monday, July 23rd, 2018

Join delegates from Deutsche Bank, Afreximbank, Bank of America, Standard Bank, Willis, First Rand, Sumitomo, Bank of China and many, many others from the worlds of trade and supply chain finance, insurance and fintech at the highlight of the trade finance calendar: ITFA 2018.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2018

With the ITFA 45th Annual Trade and Forfaiting Conference just around the corner, the ITFA Board is delighted to announce that Peter Mulroy from FCI and Vinod Madhavan from Standard Bank, will be heading one of the sessions in Cape Town, South Africa. This joint session is titled ”Supply Chain Finance – New Perspectives and […]

Monday, July 9th, 2018

The ITFA Board is delighted to announce that Mr. Jean Craven, CEO – Barak Fund Management, will be the key-note speaker at this year’s ITFA Annual Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Friday, July 6th, 2018

At this year’s ITFA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa (4-6th September 2018) two of the afternoon sessions will be dedicated wholly to networking. On Tuesday 4th September and Thursday 6th September, half-hour table slots will be available from 2:30pm onwards for dedicated networking opportunities using the ITFA Networking Portal.

Friday, July 6th, 2018

In collaboration with Sullivan & Worcester, ITFA is pleased to invite you to yet another Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar entitled: “Trade and Export Finance: How can careful drafting in documents remove or mitigate risk of regulatory non-compliance?” This seminar is going to be held on Tuesday 24th July 2018, at New Broad Street House, 35 New Broad Street, London, EC2M 1NH, UK. Registration and breakfast are at 8:15 am followed […]

Thursday, July 5th, 2018

Following ITFA’s agreement with TXF, the ITFA Board is pleased to announce that it has secured discounted passes to TXF Political Risk & Trade Credit Insurance 2018, which is being held in London on 19 September 2018. 

Wednesday, July 4th, 2018

ITFA is again running its annual Educational Seminar on Trade Finance, in Cape Town on 3-4 September.  The Seminar will be held at the offices of Rand Merchant Bank, Portside, 5 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town and will take place on the afternoon on Monday 3rd September and the morning on Tuesday 4th September 2018.

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arrived. As a technology making waves across just about every industry, its impact on the rapidly digitalising trade finance space is finally being felt. A new white paper issued by ITFA member Tradeteq outlines how this technology is being applied to tackle directly the pressing issue of inadequate credit scoring for […]

Monday, June 25th, 2018

With just over two months to go for the ITFA 45th Annual Trade and Forfaiting Conference, the ITFA Board is delighted to announce that Geoff Wynne from Sullivan & Worcester and Paul Coles from HSBC, will be heading one of the sessions in Cape Town, South Africa. This joint session is titled ”The BAFT MRPA reloaded – the revised BAFT – ITFA […]

Monday, June 18th, 2018

We are pleased to inform you that this month’s issue of the ITFA Newsletter, is in a new and fresh format which we hope you will all enjoy. The June 2018 ITFA Newsletter is now out. Please click here to open the Newsletter. 

Thursday, June 14th, 2018

ITFA set up the Young Professionals Network to develop and support the professionals embarking on a career in trade finance and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas that might be particularly valuable at an early stage in these individuals’ careers. With this goal in mind, we are pleased to inform you that the ITFA Young Professionals Panel […]

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

The ITFA Board is delighted to announce that Robert Besseling (EXX Africa) and Celeste Fauconnier (Rand Merchant Bank) will be heading one of the sessions at the ITFA 45th Annual Trade and Forfaiting Conference this year in Cape Town, South Africa. This joint session is titled ”African Economic Outlook: a look inside the continent”.