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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
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On 11th and 12th of September 2023, EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme organised two-day workshop on the Certificate for Documentary Credit Specialist (CDCS) for TFP partner banks in #Jordan. ![]()
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The event was jointly organized by ICC Dubai and ICC Jordan, and was delivered by Vincent O’Brien, a consultant from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).![]()
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The workshop hosted more than 40 banking professionals from Central Bank of Jordan, Housing Bank for Trade and Finance, Bank Al Etihad, Cairo Amman Bank, Capital Bank of Jordan, Invest Bank, Jordan Ahli Bank, Safwa Islamic Bank, ABC Bank, Jordan Kuwait Bank and ICC Jordan. ![]()
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Gretchen Biery, Head of Jordan at the EBRD and Dr. Zaki Al Ayoubi, Former Chairman of ICC Jordan extended a warm welcome to all participants.![]()
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The workshop provided current and aspiring documentary credit professionals with the necessary skills and expertise in the processes and rules so that they could professionally deliver documentary credit services to support secure international trade.![]()
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The CDCS is a professional qualification recognised worldwide as a benchmark of competence for international trade practitioners in documentary letters of credit.![]()
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Thank you for your participation!
On 12 July 2023, the TFP team has delivered one day trade finance workshop in Tunis, Tunisia. Full day workshop was held in French by one of the trade finance experts from ICC France and targeted trade finance professionals (front, middle and back office), relationship managers and risk officers.![]()
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The workshop covered advanced products in a trade finance environment, their processes and procedures, and cover topics such as: the sequences of payment instruments (collections, documentary credits, guarantees and standby letters of credit), Incoterms and transport documents in documentary credits, risks in documentary credits and how to mitigate them, and practical cases of standby letters of credit and guarantees. ![]()
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The workshop was attended by twenty banking professionals from Banque de Tunisie, UBCI, Amen Bank, BIAT, UIB and Attijari Bank Tunisie. ![]()
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#EBRD #TradeFinance #TFP #crossbordertrade #Tunisia
On 22 June 2023, the TFP team has delivered one day trade finance workshop in Casablanca, Morocco. Full day workshop was delivered by one of the trade finance experts from ICC France.![]()
The workshop covered all major trade finance topics, including letters of credit, guarantees, Incoterms as well as case studies and compliance in trade finance. ![]()
Thirty banking professionals from Bank of Africa, Banque Centrale Populaire, Credit Agricole du Maroc, Credit du Maroc, BMCI (Banque marocaine pour le commerce et l'industrie), Credit Immobilier and Hotelier and Societe Generale Marocaine de Banque took part. ![]()
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Big thanks to all participants!![]()
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#EBRD #tradefinance #tfp #crossbordertrade @ICC #Morocco
On June 29th, the EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme initiated a two-day workshop on the Certificate for Documentary Credit Specialist (CDCS) for TFP partner banks in Armenia. The workshop hosted more than 50 banking professionals from Armswissbank CJSC, Convers Bank, Ardshinbank CJSC, AraratBank OJSC, Inecobank CJSC, Acba bank OJSC![]()
Armeconombank OJSC, Ameriabank CJSC, and the Central Bank of Armenia on the first day. The event was jointly organized by International Chamber of Commerce National Committee Armenia - ICC NCA and ICC Dubai, and it was delivered by Vincent Obrien, a consultant from the EBRD. Innesa Amirbekyan, Executive Board Member and Chair of the Banking Commission, along with George Akhalkatsi, Head of Armenia at the EBRD, extended a warm welcome to all the participants. Well done ![]()
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We look forward to welcoming the participants on day 2. ![]()
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Ikbol Hakimov
The EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme is finally underway! ![]()
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To begin the session, the EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso was welcomed by EBRD Managing Director, Francis Malige. ![]()
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To round off an incredible beginning to a truly special event for the TFP, Representative Kelly Hsieh, Taipei Representative Office in the UK on behalf of the TaiwanBusiness EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund, one of our biggest supporters, joined the stage.![]()
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It is an honour to have the full support of our colleagues and friends.![]()
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#EBRDam 23 #CentralAsia #EBRD #tradefinance