ITFC conducts first transaction with Bolero Thursday 15 April 2021 14:38 CET | News
In March 2021, ITFC announced that a cash against documents transaction it orchestrated was successfully completed between Burkina Faso-based cotton company Sofitex and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), with an electronic bill of lading (eBL) issued on Bolero’s digital trade finance platform used to speed up the document flow. The deal involved the shipment of Burkina Faso cotton from the Port of Lomé in Togo, to LDC in Asia, with global shipping and logistics firm CMA CGM issuing the eBL for the transaction. Founded in 2005, ITFC has a mandate to support trade finance among the 57 nations that comprise the Organisationâ¯of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) members.
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy s HOME project continues with a new residency with visiting choreographer Souleymane Badolo from Burkina Faso. Company members and guest artists will present Souleymane s version of HOME in an informal showing and discussion at Green Space, which will also be live streamed on Dance Entropy s Facebook and Instagram accounts. HOME is an international collaboration with choreographers from Sweden, India, Burkina Faso, Colombia and Lebanon. Each artist examines the concept of home from their own unique perspective, drawing upon the significance of this idea from their home country, as well as factors including culture, upbringing, economics, politics, and personal identity. Five Choreographers are invited to NYC in 5 phases to work with the dancers in 10-day intensives at Green Space. Currently in Phase ,4 Dance Entropy is working with Souleyman Badolo on this idea of Home. I am like a snail, I carry my house with me wherever I am wherever I go. I stil