With that in mind, TFG spoke to experienced trade veteran Abdurrahman Ozalp, based in Turkey about trade opportunities and the importance of trade rules
Abdurrahman Özalp is chair of the ICC Turkey’s Banking Commision and Senior Trade Advisor of TEB Istanbul has more than 30 years of experience in international trade and banking. He is 56 years old, in 1986 graduated from The Faculty of Economics and Administration of Cukurova Universiy in Turkey. He passed the CDCS (Documentary Credit Specialist Certificate) exam in 2000 and CITF (Certificate of International Trade Finance) in 2010. On the DOCDEX List as expert of Documentary Credits and Guarantees. He is still an active member of some Group and Task Forces of ICC, i.e. Digitalization, URDG&Guarantees and Financial Crime&Risks. Every year he performs many seminars, conferences and trainings. He is author of nine books about payment methods, trade finance and delivery terms etc. one of the on BPO (Bank Payment Obligation), which is a new payment method, introduced and spreadwided in Turkey by whom. Nowadays strives to provide the use of blockchain in Turkey in the area of Trade Financing and International Trade.