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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
08 December 2020
Ten years of digital learning!
After a decade of successful trade finance training, we look back on what we’ve achieved and how we can continue our success in the future
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Article
01 December 2020
EBRD presents Green TFP awards
The most successful issuing and confirming banks for environmentally friendly projects in 2019 have been honoured
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Article
05 June 2020
Ukrgasbank receives US$ 90 million trade facility
The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting trade finance throughout the EBRD regions and so the TFP is supporting local importers and exporters by increasing its trade finance limits to banks
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
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EBRD's Trade Facilitation Programme and International Compliance Association organised the pioneer online webinars for ICA qualifications in “Know Your Customer/ Customer Due Diligence” and “Trade Based Money Laundering” in West Bank and Gaza.
For the first time in the history of ICA and the EBRD, both institutions are jointly funding scholarships for 14 employees of the Palestine Monetary Authority and leading 36 trade finance specialists from four partner banks. Senior staff from the regulator and EBRD partner banks attended the event which had a great success.
Huge thanks to Bill Howarth, President of the ICA and Philip ter Woort, EBRD Head of Eastern Mediterranean Region for opening the webinar, tutors James Wood-Rickett and Aamar Ahmad and the organisers Kamola Makhmudova, Wa’d Taweel, Yana Tamulyavchute and Shokhrukh Inamov
#EBRD #EBRDTFP #EBRDImpact #2020EBRD #TradeFinance #InternationalTrade #ICA #KYC #CDD #TBML
On 5th November Worldwide Experts with EBRD’s support delivered the first virtual trade finance conference in Central Asia over Webex. The conference was warmly welcomed by André Küüsvek, the EBRD Managing Director for Central Asia and brought together over one hundred trade finance experts to discuss modern challenges, including COVID-19, compliance and digitalisation, Incoterm 20 rules and factoring. We would like to extend special gratitude to the Central Bank of Uzbekistan and the Central Bank of Tajikistan for their invaluable contribution and to Asaka Bank Uzbekistan, the sponsor of the virtual conference.
#EBRD #TFP #EBRDImpact #TradeFinance #InternationalTrade #Uzbekistan #Tajikistan #KyrgyzRepublic #Turkmenistan #Kazakhstan
EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme together with the Central Bank of Jordan and FCI hosted on 22 October 2020 the first virtual workshop on Factoring & Receivables Finance for Financial Institutions in Jordan!
The organisations join forces to develop the factoring industry in Jordan which will play a key role in supporting the growth for the small- and medium-sized companies and their financial resilience.
Speakers included His Excellency Dr Maher Sheikh Hasan, Philip Ter Woort, Kamola Makhmudova, Peter Mulroy, Basel Araj, Yasser Mohd Tahboub, Basel Al-Hussein, Ammar Al-Said, Rouba Mushasha, Noor Halawa, Mohammed Burjak , Edward Wilde, Aysen Cetintas, A. Betül Kurtulus, Spyros Tsolis
#EBRD #EBRDTFP #FCI #FCIAcademy #TradeFinance #InternationalTrade #2020EBRD #EBRDImpact #factoring #Jordan #receivablesfinance
EBRD promotes innovation in green trade finance!
Combining all three elements the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is joining this year’s NTT DATA Open Innovation Contest as a partner in the search for potential collaborations with start-ups who have innovative ideas in the area of sustainable trade finance.
www.ebrd.com/news/2020/ebrd-promotes-innovation-in-green-trade-finance.html
#EBRD #EBRDTFP #TradeFinance #InternationalTrade #EBRDImpact #2020EBRD #GreenTrade #Green
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.