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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 2019
1.Commerzbank
2.ING Bank
3.Unicredit
4.Raiffeisen Bank
5.ODDO BHF
6.KBC Bank
7.Deutsche Bank
8.Banca Popolare
9.Citibank
10.UBS
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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Feature
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09 January 2019
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Fitness equipment made on the island plays a major role in the development of the global health and fitness industry, which is poised to grow even more in the coming years
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Article
04 May 2020
Delivering record levels of trade finance to emerging markets
The EBRD has stepped in to protect emerging economies across its regions from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic
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Article
05 August 2019
EBRD presents awards for green trade
The EBRD’s Green Trade Facilitation Programme (Green TFP) has recognised the most successful banks under the programme by presenting them with awards for their performance in 2018
EventsAwards, Workshops & Seminars, Forums and Graduations
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Awards
04 June 2020
TFP Annual Event and Awards 2020
With lockdowns in place across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, our usual TFP Annual Event and Awards Ceremony was unable to take place. But that doesn’t mean that our partner banks haven’t gone unrecognised
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Forums
23-24 October 2019
TFP Trade Finance Forum 2019, Athens
It was a record year for the eighth annual EBRD TFP Trade Finance Forum as we welcomed more participants than ever before to sunny Athens
With the support of the #EU, the #EBRD’s #TFP launched the first round 70 #ACAMS scholarship for trade finance and compliance specialist from Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. This is the first historic cooperation between the EBRD and ACAMS to enhance the level of compliance in the region. The project kick-started on 21st of September 2020 via Zoom and the candidates were welcomed by @Matteo Patrone, the EBRD Managing Director of Eastern Europe and Caucuses. This is an online qualification and to succeed the candidate should study the online resources, participate online seminars and take exam. Once all the students attain their CAMS certificate, EBRD will help set up a Chapter in Kiev and start instructing trainers programme.
We EBRD transformed our trainings and moved them online, together with National Bank of Tajikistan we strengthened banking professionals with #tradefinance structuring skills to meet the #challenges of the current environment.
This week 7th of September 2020, we hosted 250 bank professionals from over 20 regions of Tajikistan on #zoom conference call to deliver a seminar about trade finance. We looked at case studies and transactions examples to analyse #advantages of #tradefinance vs #directlending for export and import transactions. We looked how to protect local exporters and importers in Tajikistan with better innovative use of trade finance instruments.
Kamola Makhmudova Ayten Qiyas-Rustamova
#EBRD #TFP #InternationalTrade #EBRDImpact
EBRD, EU and ACAMS promote financial crime prevention
Financial institutions and partners of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the countries of the Eastern Partnership will improve their compliance with financial crime prevention regulations following an accord signed between the EBRD and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and supported by the European Union (EU).
www.ebrd.com/news/2020/ebrd-eu-and-acams-promote-financial-crime-prevention.html
Kamola Makhmudova
EBRD’s Trade Finance e-Learning Programme (TFP e-Learning) celebrates a decade of successful trainings in trade finance!
The TFP e-Learning has been designed by EBRD together with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Coastline Solutions to help issuing banks involved in our Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) achieve best international practice by offering specialised courses. Every year EBRD offers scholarships covering up to 100 per cent of tuition fees and as of May 2020 e-Learning has over 9,000 alumni from 400 organisations in 30 countries including our colleagues from EBRD.
tfp-ebrd.com/event/the-best-of-trade-finances-best/
Kamola Makhmudova Anastasia Sarokina
EBRD TFP Awards recognise successful partner banks from three continents
www.ebrd.com/news/2020/-ebrd-tfp-awards-recognise-successful-partner-banks-from-three-continents-...
EBRD TFP Awards recognise successful partner banks from three continents
www.ebrd.com
Over the last two decades, the EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme has gained widespread recognition and appreciation from partner banks, exporters and importers and has created a thriving professional network to enable industry collaboration and exchange.