Welcome to the TFP
Read full introductionWelcome to Trade Exchange, our new online hub for the EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme.
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Welcome to Trade Exchange, our new online hub for the EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme.
Welcome to the TFP
We are so excited to share with you our new digital version of Trade Exchange. We felt it was important to move to a sustainable product that will allow us to distribute information to you more quickly and allow you to keep up to date with the latest industry developments.
The hub has all of your favourite content from the magazine: the latest industry and EBRD news, in-depth features on trade finance developments, information on training and the trade finance clinic, where you can continue to challenge yourself with the trade finance brain teasers.
Browse the events section for reports and photos of all our big events such as the EBRD TFP Information Session and Awards ceremony, the Trade Finance e-Learning Programme graduation ceremony and the Trade Finance Forum. There is also a list of upcoming events where you can register online if you plan to attend.
Trade Exchange continues to be sponsored by the TaiwanBusiness-EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund, so we will have regular articles from them on many interesting and relevant topics.
A big thank you to all our readers and followers from around the EBRD’s regions. You’ve made Trade Exchange one of the most popular EBRD publications since its launch in 2011. We will still complement the digital version with an annual print version, but all the latest news and events will be published here.
We look forward to hearing your feedback and ideas.
Launched in 1999, the Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) aims to promote foreign trade to, from and among the EBRD countries of operations through a range of products.
The EBRD’s award winning Green Trade Facilitation Programme (Green TFP) stimulates the supply of high performance technologies and services. Green TFP is an important, innovative step for trade finance and it strengthens the EBRD’s efforts to make the countries where it invests greener with its activities.
TFP at a glance
25,300+
Total number of transactions since 1999
€20bn+
Total transaction value since 1999
Top 10 Confirming banks 2020
1.Commerzbank
2.Unicredit
3.ING Bank
4.Raiffeisen Bank
5.K.BC Bank
6.JP Morgan Chase Bank
7.UBS
8.Deutsche Bank
9.DZ Bank
10.Zuercher Kantonalbank
10.Banca Popolare di Sondrio

Green TFP
Almost
900
Green TFP transactions have been financed
22 economies where the EBRD invests
The EBRD has supported more than
€675 million
in green trade financing
Effect on environment
Energy savings:
1,513,200 MWh
(equal to annual electricity consumption of 325,338 households)
Water savings:
1,681,399 m3
(equal to annual water consumption of 13,114 households)
Emission savings:
605,376 tonnes CO2
(equal to annual CO2 emmissions from 357,171 passenger cars)
NewsTop stories
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Article
22 December 2022
“Introduction to Trade Finance” e-Learning module now available in Albanian
The EBRD’s renowned online course expands to offer better access to specialists in Albania
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Article
29 November 2022
Factoring conference in Tbilisi hailed a success
The TFP is working with banks in the Caucasus to promote the use of factoring and spread knowledge of trade and supply chain finance
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Article
29 November 2022
Promoting green trade in Armenia
Workshop brings together specialists and professionals to learn about sustainability in the banking sector
EventsAwards, Workshops & Seminars, Forums and Graduations
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Forums
21 September 2022
TFP Trade Finance Forum 2022, Istanbul
The industry-leading event is back after a break of three years
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Awards
10 May 2022
TFP Information Session and Awards Ceremony 2022
After the Covid-19 pandemic meant that our event in 2020 was cancelled, and last year’s was online, the TFP’s Information Session and Awards Ceremony returned in person to honour 2021’s most active partner banks