News and events

2013

May

TFP Event & Annual Award Ceremony 2013

February

E-Learning Graduation Ceremony 2013

2012

September

TFP Trade Finance Forum 2012 in Istanbul

Trade Exchange September 2012 issue published

July

Trade Exchange Issue three published

June

TFP wins major accolades

May

TFP Event & Annual Award Ceremony

April

Financing foreign trade with Egypt

March

Trade Exchange Issue two published

TFP awarded environmental and social accolade

6th Annual Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference

 

May 2013

TFP Event & Annual Award Ceremony 2013

The EBRD's Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) is inviting its members and everyone interested in the topic of international and intra-regional trade finance banking to attend the annual TFP event within the framework of the EBRD 2013 Annual Meeting and Business Forum.

This year’s half-day event is a unique opportunity to discuss contemporary trade finance banking topics including an overview of the recent developments and forecast about future trends. Amongst the topics to be presented are recent developments in trade finance facilitation, intra-regional trade including between South East Europe, CIS and Turkey as well as South and Eastern Mediterranean countries, and technical cooperation projects. The event will also provide the stage for signing agreements with banks that have recently joined TFP and will host the award ceremony including our most active TFP banks of 2012.

The TFP event will be taking place on 9 May 2013 starting from 13:00 at Istanbul Congress Center, Taskisla Street Harbiye 34367, Istanbul, Turkey.

The attendance of the TFP event is free and by invitation only for representatives of issuing and confirming banks under the TFP.

The Programme of the TFP event is currently being finalised and will be made available in due course.

In case of any enquiries please send your message to: TFPConference@ebrd.com

February 2013

E-Learning Graduation Ceremony 2013

We are pleased to announce that this year’s e-Learning graduation ceremony will be taking place in Moscow on 5 February 2013 at the Baltschug Kempinski during the Exporta 6^th Annual Russia & Eurasia Trade & Export Finance Conference.

All students who have successfully completed seven modules by 25 December 2012 will be eligible to attend the 2013 Graduation Ceremony. If eligible, your conference attendance will be free of charge, however you will have to cover your own travel and accommodation costs. 

We encourage you to complete all of the modules by the set deadline for the opportunity to qualify for one of the best student awards. Special prizes will be given out to the 20 best performers in various categories, and will include:

• Two-week on-the-job internship at Commerzbank in Germany
• One-week Trade Finance Seminar at BHF-Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
• Fully paid attendance at the ICC Banking Commission Meeting that will be taking place in April 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal
• Subscription to DC-Pro, sponsored by Coastline Solutions
• Two iPads, courtesy of Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg and China Systems
• Complimentary subscriptions to Exporta’s GTR (Global Trade Review), the world’s leading international trade finance and export finance magazine
• One year subscription to www.factorscan.com and three yearbooks: World Supply Chain Finance Yearbook, European Trade Finance Yearbook, World Factoring Yearbook provided by BCR Publishing Ltd, the expert on world's specialised financial markets.
• Additionally the list of award winners will be published on our websites and featured in our quarterly Trade Exchange magazine.

Issuing Banks who would like to attend the conference will be granted a 50% discount on the conference registration fee.

This will be a great opportunity to celebrate an achievement and be recognised as the best performer in the EBRD TFP e-Learning Programme. 

For more information about this event please contact Anna Brod at broda@ebrd.com

For more information about Exporta 6th Annual Russia & Eurasia Trade & Export Finance Conference please click here.

September 2012

TFP Trade Finance Forum 2012

The annual TFP Trade Finance Forum 2012 in Istanbul attracted a record number of attendees with 210 guests from over 100 banks from 80 different countries. Learn more

View pictures from the event.

Trade Exchange September 2012

In this issue:

• Find out how the EBRD has been helping local capital markets and what it has been up to in Jordan
• Read how banks in Central Asia are faring in light of the global financial crisis. And learn what the EBRD’s Municipal and environmental Infrastructure team are all about
• Discover how two of our best graduates got on during their training after gaining great results in the Trade Finance e-learning Programme
• Many other interesting stories including our increasingly popular trade finance clinic

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July 2012

Trade Exchange Issue three published

Summer is here! And so is our third issue of Trade Exchange.

Highlights of this issue:

• EBRD’s TFP team hosts the TFP Annual Event and Awards Ceremony on 17 May 2012.  Find out which banks took the trophies home and was first to win the newly established ICC/EBRD Academic Excellence Award.
• How EBRD TFP network expanding into the southern and eastern Mediterranean region, read about our activities, including our information session in Cairo that took place in April (page 5).
• The ICC used the EBRD platform to present the latest results of its Global Survey 2012: Rethinking Trade and Finance.
• Stories from Russia and Mongolia, which we received from EBRD Resident Offices and our participating banks.
• Read about our new Trade Finance e-Learning Programme web site where you can find out about what training projects we have developed throughout the year at: http://ebrd.coastlinesolutions.com
• Lastly, we are very excited to tell you more about the EBRD’s newly elected president – Sir Suma Chakrabarti – the first ever from the United Kingdom.

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June 2012

This year the EBRD scooped two top industry awards: the Best Global Developmental Financial Institution Award, in the Trade Finance Magazine Awards for Excellence 2012, and Gold Award as the Best Developmental Financial Institution, in Trade & Forfaiting Review’s Excellence Awards 2012.

To read the full story, please check our Achievements and TFP in the press sections.

March 2012

Trade Exchange Issue two published

Following the successful first issue of EBRD’s Trade Exchange Magazine, the new quarterly publication dedicated to the activities of the Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), March issue has now been published. The magazine features the latest TFP news, events and articles as well as latest developments in the Trade Finance industry.

The Trade Exchange March 2012 edition focuses on TFP’s activities in the Power and Energy sector, where the team have supported hundreds of transactions. The issue also features the recent e-Learning graduation ceremony in Moscow and feedback from some of the students.

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Last updated 6 December 2012