Barcelona: The Success and the Highlights

The 41st Annual Forfaiting Conference

It was at Barcelona that the new bigger and better The International Trade and Forfaiting Association was launched! As Paolo Provera, the Association’s Chairman said the organisation would now be even more of a facilitator for global trade. 

ITFA will seek to spread knowledge about global trade developments and global best practices (the ITFA’s” know how”), offer networking platforms networking to facilitate both deal-making and career development and offer dispute resolution through conciliation and arbitration. It would also work closely with organisations like the ICC Supply Chain Forum which were now emerging as critical to global trade.

The Barcelona conference was attended by 173 participants representing 35 countries reflecting the ITFA’s broad global reach and access to expertise. For the complete set of presentations click www.itfa.org.

For GTR News report on the Barcelona Conference and the revamp of the ITFA click  http://www.gtreview.com/trade-finance/global-trade-review-news/2014/September/IFA-becomes-ITFA_11947.shtml

For TXF News report on the Barcelona Conference and the revamp of the ITFA click http://www.txfnews.com/News/Article/3201/Ambitious-ITFA-revamp-looks-to-the-future

For the report on the Russia and Iran sanctions from TFR with a quote from Grant Eldred’s presentation at Barcelona click 

http://www.tfreview.com/news/legal-regulatory/latest-useu-sanctions-puts-russian-energy-exploration-and-lending-deep-freeze