Trade Finance Conference Prague 2025

04 Dec 2025

Prague English
Start: 09:00 CET ⎪End : 18:00 CET

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; 

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? 

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 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: Matthew Smith 
 
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

Pavel Andrle 

International Trade Finance Trainer and Consultant  

Radek Dobáš 

Head of Documentary Business, Česká spořitelna, a.s. 

Marco Nindl 

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

Matthew Smith 

Client Director at Diot-Siaci 

Maria Mogilnaya 

 

Venue

Grandium hotel Prague, Politických vězňů 12, Praha 1     

Working language English
Cancellation policy Registration for the event is binding, no refund.

Organisers