The newsletter discusses several events: 1. Mr. Ilia Gogichaishvili, Chairman of the ICC Georgia Banking Commission, participated in the ICC China Trade Finance Conference in Beijing to discuss challenges and opportunities in trade finance. 2. ICC Georgia and ICC China agreed to strengthen economic cooperation between their countries to support trade and development, including ICC China sending a business delegation to a workshop in Georgia. 3. Upcoming events include a business plan training in Georgia and a conference between GiZ and ICC Georgia.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
P1 - ICC China Trade Finance
Conference in Beijing
P2 - Business Plan Training
conducted
P3 - ICC Georgia Youth
Leadership and Partner Orga-
nizations’ Meeting
P4 - GiZ and ICC Georgia
Hold Conference
Mr. Ilia Gogichaishvili, Chairman of the ICC Georgia Banking Com-
mission participated in the high profile trade finance conference
in Beijing organized by ICC China on 23-24 November, 2014, which
brought together leading trade finance bankers and practitioners
to address the current challenges and opportunities facing the in-
dustry.
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EDITION XVII, NOVEMBER 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chairman of ICC Georgia Banking
Commission participates in ICC China
Trade Finance Conference in Beijing
from 22 to 23 November 2014
Topics addressed during the conference
were:
- The fraud exception – practitioners analysis of
treatment in selected jurisdictions
- LC fraud cases: the latest process in Qingdao
case
- Trade Finance innovation under the back-
ground of big information era
- Judicial interpretation rules on independent
guarantees in China
- FTA Financial Policy Revolution Analysis
Mr. Ilia Gogichaishvili met the leaders of ICC
China and discussed the areas of future coop-
eration between the two ICC National Com-
mittees. According to Mr. Gogichaishvili: “New
Silk Road” project that Chinese and Georgian
governments are currently working on is ex-
pected to bring greater cooperation in trade and
economic development between two nations.
Establishing mutually beneficial cooperation
between ICC Georgia and ICC China is vital in
strengthening economic ties between two coun-
tries to support trade and development”.
It was mutually agreed that ICC China will send
a business delegation to Georgia to participate
at an advanced trade finance workshop to be
organized by ICC Georgia in cooperation with
EBRD in Tbilisi, Georgia during May, 2015.
From left to right:
Mr. Ilia Gogichaishvili, Chairman of ICC Georgia Banking
Commission
H.E. Ms. Shen Hongyu, Supreme Court Judge of PRC,
Mr. Vincent O’Brien, Chairman of ICC Banking Commis-
sion, Market Intelligence Group
Ms. Andrea Hauptmann, Chair of Guarantees Task Force of
ICC Banking Commission
Mr. Xiang Gao, Professor of Law (former Supreme Court
Judge), China University of Political Science and Law
Mr. Zhu Hongsheng, General Manager, China Minsheng
Banking Corporation
Mr. Li Yonghong, General Manager, China Minsheng Bank-
ing Corporation