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International Trade & Forfaiting Association
ITFA unveils a Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement template
ITFA announced a new template that is being made available to its members in order to facilitate transactional information sharing. The ITFA NDA (Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement for risk sharing in trade transactions – English law) has been designed as a two-way master document that can be used when parties to the agreement share information relating… Continue reading ITFA unveils a Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement template
URTEPO: ITFA releases new rules covering electronic payment obligations
ITFA has announced the release of Uniform Rules for Transferable Electronic Payment Obligations (URTEPO), a unique set of rules that cover electronic payment obligations. Digitalisation and accompanying changes in the law are now offering new ways to both create or re-create traditional trade finance instruments in digital form as well as use new ways to… Continue reading URTEPO: ITFA releases new rules covering electronic payment obligations
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VIDEO | Digitising trade and supply chain processes: TFG contributes to ICC Academy’s new CDTS course
With the trade ecosystem increasingly shifting towards technological advancements, and a market saturated with options in which to digitise trade processes, it can be difficult to cut through the noise.
ITFA trade finance forum: tech, ESG, supply chains
The ITFA Middle East Regional Committee hosted its fourth Trade Finance Forum (TFF) in collaboration with the DIFC Academy on 29 September 2022.
VIDEO | Trade digitisation: the legal framework that will facilitate efficient trade
A prominent point of discussion at the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) 48th Annual International Trade and Forfaiting Conference in Porto has been the digitisation of trade finance––particularly after the challenges COVID-19 caused for a largely paper-based industry.
UK introduces electronic trade documents bill into parliament
On 12 October, the UK officially introduced The Electronic Trade Documents Bill into parliament, the next step in a long road to shred the country’s legally imposed reliance on using paper for trade documents.
VIDEO | Landlocked but not alone: driving trade and development around the world
At the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) 48th Annual International Trade and Forfaiting Conference in Porto, Trade Finance Global’s (TFG’s) Deepesh Patel sat down with Nelli Kocharyan, head of international relations and trade finance at Converse Bank, to discuss tactics to facilitate trade and development around the world.
VIDEO | Trade in emerging markets: managing the opportunities and risks
At ITFA 2022, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke to Lucio Lopez, managing partner of one of Brazil’s leading commercial law firms, about how businesses looking to expand into emerging and developing markets like Asia, Africa, or Latin America.
VIDEO | Has asset management embraced trade finance and what more is left to be done?
Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Jason Barrass, chief commercial officer at ARC Ratings to learn more about the role that credit rating agencies can play in this shift,
Emerging markets roundtable: understanding and addressing the trade finance challenges for SMEs
This year’s ITFA 48th Annual Trade & Forfaiting conference, held in Porto, covered a few key themes, one of the most notable being the increasing trade finance gap, which impacts small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets the most.
VIDEO: George Wilson on African SMEs, FX, and sustainability
With a global energy and food crisis peaking, alongside hiking inflationary rates and geopolitical tensions, it may seem that the road ahead for the African continent is not as straightforward as one would hope.
Speaking to George Wilson, head of institutional trade finance at Investec, Trade Finance Global (TFG) was able to find out more about the African eco-system.
ITFA fintech chair André Casterman on the metaverse, distributed ledger technology, and NFTs
The digitisation of the trade finance industry has brought considerable change to the market in recent years.
Podcast: Olá, Porto! ITFA’s Sean Edwards on emerging markets and digitisation
Trade Finance Global (TFG) are proud to once again partner with International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) at their 48th annual conference in Porto. In preparation for the conference, TFG caught up with ITFA’s Chairman, Sean Edwards, to discuss some of the key themes.