Trade Finance Conference Prague 2025

One day International Conference Trade Finance Prague 2025

Topics: Documentary Credits, Demand Guarantees, Credit Insurance Digitalization, Rules and Practices, Questions & Answers

This Conference is designed for:

• bankers working in trade finance, particularly in documentary credits, collections, bank guarantees and export financing departments;
• front office bank specialists, relationship managers;
• specialists in trade finance, bank risk managers, internal auditors;
• exporters, importers and traders;
• carriers, freight forwarders, insurance companies;
• lawyers, advocates, academics;

Conference Language - English with no translation

Organizer - ICC CR - reserves the right to adjust the program, if needed.

Venue:

Grandium hotel Prague, Politických vězňů 12, Praha 1 - map

Program of the the Eighth Trade Finance Conference:

08:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:05 Welcome and Opening of the Conference Representative(s) of ICC CR

09:05 - 09:45 Trade Finance - update from ICC

• News from ICC Banking Commission:
• New ISBP Revision, education project
• Developments in the Demand Guarantee World
• Progress with digitalization in trade finance?

09:45 - 10:30 ICC Opinions on Documentary Credits, Perspective on ISBP revision

• Selected Recent ICC Opinions on Documentary Credits
• Views on ISBP revision
• Questions and Answers

Speaker: Radek Dobáš

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 News from EBRD, recent developments, enlargement of the TFP program, new countries of operation

• Questions and Answers

Speaker: Marco Nindl

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Credit Insurance and how to use it in foreign trade

• Credit insurance: products, processes
• Role of insurers, brokers, agents, re-insurers
• Role of credit insurance in foreign trade, advantages, limits
• Questions and Answers

Speaker: TBA

15:30 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:45 Digitalization of trade finance - electronic - digital documents, recent developments

• Questions and Answers

Speaker: Maria Mogilnaya

16:45 - 18:00 Closing Remarks & Glass of wine

Speakers:

Pavel Andrle - International Trade Finance Trainer and Consultant - www.tradefinanceconsulting.com 

Radek Dobáš - Head of Documentary Business, Česká spořitelna, a.s.

Maria Mogilnaya

Marco Nindl - Associate Director and Senior Banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction’s (EBRD)

Marco Nindl is an Associate Director and Senior Banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction’s (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP). His current role involves the day to day operations of the programme with particular focus on strategic developments of the trade finance industry in countries of operation where the EBRD invests. One of his focus points is to help TFP partner banks to digitalise their trade finance operations in form of various technical assistance projects including the establishment of the EBRD’s first fully digital online advisory service. Prior to joining the EBRD and during his academic studies, Marco gained extensive experience on the trade finance and banking market by working for Raiffeisen Bank in New York, Coface Credit Insurance and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) in Vienna. Marco graduated from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with a Master of Science in Economics, where he specialised in Banking and International Business.

TBA

Event registration fees:

9.990 Kč (incl. 21 % VAT) per person

• The price includes conference fee, two coffee breaks, lunch, glass of wine anf conference materials.
• Standard discounts applicable for members off the ICC Czech Republic.
• Registration for the event is binding, no refund.

Partner:

The company GOODWILL PARTNER, s.r.o. provides tax consulting focused on the economic aspects of tax planning as well as tax-legal consulting within the framework of value added tax, income taxes, and international taxation. It carries out internal audits and forensic audits of various processes and areas of focus. It will provide related consulting services, studies or research as needed or will arrange these with its partners. The result is an integrated comprehensive service corresponding to the guarantee of impartial expertise and legal certainty for the client. It cooperates with legal offices, specialized consultants and renowned experts from various fields in the implementation of an integrated service. All services are provided by experts with many years of experience and long-term quality results.