Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

With only one month to go to the ITFA Annual Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the ITFA Board is pleased to announce that André Casterman, Chair ITFA Fintech Committee, will be moderating the panel session titled: ”The 2020 Trade Finance landscape – how FinTech will help us transform and grow African and cross-border business.” […]

Thursday, July 26th, 2018

Trade finance is a reliable and low risk asset class and should be looked upon favourably by regulators, industry stakeholders and institutional investors.”, said Daniel Schmand, Chair of the ICC Banking Commission and Global Head of Trade Finance at Deutsche Bank.

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.

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.

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”.

Friday, June 1st, 2018

The ITFA Board is pleased to inform you that after giving it much thought and consideration, it has been decided to extend the Early Bird Price by one more week. Therefore, the final date to benefit from reduced conference prices is Friday 8th June 2018. We urge you all to register at your earliest to avoid any disappointment!

Monday, May 28th, 2018

We hope you have been able to down-load your copy of the recent ICC report on global trade. When you do, we’d like to draw your attention to a short article on page 145 written by our Chairman about digital forfaiting. Happy reading!