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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
31,000+
Total number of transactions since 1999
€31.7bn+
Total transaction value since 1999
Top 10 Confirming banks 2023
To be published in due course
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
21 February 2023
A record year!
Against the backdrop of the war on Ukraine and a flourishing Green TFP, we supported a record number and volume of transactions in 2022
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Article
24 January 2023
Trade, transactions and trust: TFP in Georgia
For the last two decades the TFP has been one of the key contributors to intra-regional trade in the Caucasus, helping to remove trade barriers between emerging economies and building trust in their international transactions. Here we look at how the TFP has been supporting Georgia.
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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
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
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme is excited to team up with @MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)!![]()
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Today we signed the landmark co-financing agreement, where MIGA will issue trade finance guarantees to cover part of the EBRD’s risk under our Trade Facilitation Programme. The first country to benefit from this agreement will be Ukraine.![]()
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Well done to the team! Irina Tyan @Marco Nindl @Anne-Christin Miller @Rudolf P.![]()
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The EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme is proud to be an institutional partner for the Trade and Receivables Finance Summit in CEE to be held on 7-8 March 2023, in Zagreb, focusing on Central and South-Eastern Europe.![]()
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The conference will allow participants to network in person and discuss the latest developments in factoring and receivables #finance taking place in the region.![]()
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Make sure you attend this event and be a part of the conversation! ![]()
The summit will be in Zagreb at the Hilton Garden Inn on 7-8 March 2023.![]()
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Following the Conference, FCI Academy will host the Technical Aspects in Open Account Receivables Finance Seminar (Solutions for continued growth in challenging times) on 8-9 March 2023 at the #Hilton Garden Inn in Zagreb, Croatia.![]()
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This one-day seminar will guide you through the world of receivables finance.![]()
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To register please follow this link: lnkd.in/efdceNDj and please choose “FCI , EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme & CEE Member registration” to apply a discounted rate.
After a successful pilot project with to provide compliance ACAMS training to our partner banks in #Georgia, #Moldova and #Ukraine, as well as the successful launch of the ACAMS Eurasia Chapter, we are happy to announce we are continuing our partnership to provide scholarships for Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (#CAMS) #certification to our partner banks in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region. ![]()
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We kicked off the project with #Morocco and #Tunisia last week, and Heike Harmgart opened the launch event.![]()
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#Egypt, #Jordan, #Lebanon and #West Bank and Gaza will follow in H1 2023! ![]()
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@Yuka Masumizu
It is our pleasure to announce that EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme will partner with the @Banking Association for Central and Eastern Europe (BACEE) for BACEE’s 11th AML and Compliance Conference being held on 9 December 2022, in #Budapest.![]()
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One of the main goals of the Conference is to emphasize the importance of co-operation between all actors on the national and global level in fighting financial crime and strengthening the financial system’s stability.![]()
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EBRD TFP’s speaker @Irina Tyan, Principal Banker, will focus on how the EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme assists its partner banks in the area of compliance.![]()
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To view the conference #programme and for any further details, please visit the event website: lnkd.in/d_pqDh_6![]()
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🔹 11th AML and Compliance Conference | 9 December 2022 | Budapest 🔹![]()
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Registration available here: lnkd.in/dpStRwyk![]()
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#11thAML #AML #Compliance #BACEEConferences
EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme arranged a workshop “Bringing Green Trade to Armenia” in partnership with the International Chamber of Commerce National Committee Armenia. ![]()
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The workshop took place on November 8, 2022, at the Best Western Congress Hotel, #Yerevan and focused on the #sustainability finance in the financial sector of #Armenia.![]()
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The @Central Bank of Armenia opened the event, attended by over #50 participants from the FI sector. Colleagues from the Green Economy Transition and Green Financial System team supported the presentation, discussing EBRD’s approach to Paris Alignment, as well as the methodology and assessment process for green trade finance.![]()
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The Green TFP was launched in 2016 to promote investments that improve sustainability and deliver environmental benefits. As of end of 2021, Green TFP supported 1300 transactions amounting to more than EUR 1.3 billion in 26 countries. Green TFP supports the trade of high-performing technologies in sectors of buildings, industry, agriculture, transport, renewable energy and others.![]()
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Stay tuned for more news from the Green TFP!![]()
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@Nana Khurodze![]()
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@Zara Karakhanyan