Trade Finance Conference Prague 2024

One day International Conference Trade Finance Prague 2024  

Topics: Documentary Credits, Demand Guarantees, ESG, Trade Finance Laws, 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 ČR - reserves the right to adjust the program, if needed.

Venue:

Grandium hotel Prague, Politických vězňů 12, Praha 1

Accommodation with a 15% discount will be provided by the hotel's reservation department (reservation@hotel-grandium.cz), enter the "ICC" password.

Program of the Seventh 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? ISBP revision process, education project
• Progress with digitalization in trade finance?

Speaker: Pavel Andrle

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 Court cases on Documentary Credits and Bank Guarantees

• Recent most relevant court cases related to Documentary Credits and Guarantees
• ICC Banking Commission Guidance Paper on Sanction Clauses
• Recent most relevant court cases related to sanction clauses in Documentary Credits and Guarantees
• Questions and Answers

Speaker: Robert Parson, Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Sanctions, Court intervention - injunctions

• Sanction clauses in Guarantees
• Impact of Sanctions on Demand Guarantees
• Provisional orders - injunctions
• Questions and Answers

Speaker: Andrea Hauptmann

15:30 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:45 Introduction to ESG - impact on corporate business, international
trade and finance

Speaker: TFC 

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

Speakers:

Pavel Andrle - International Trade Finance Trainer and Consultant

Radek Dobáš - Head of Documentary Business, Česká spořitelna

Andrea Hauptmann

Robert Parson - Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (UK)

Event registration fees:

8.900 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.