Ebrd trade Facilitation Programme (tfp) Objectives and Achievements

EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) – Objectives and Achievements

Rudolf PUTZ

Vienna, 26 September 2017

Where we invest

EBRD TFP – Exports from Austria to Georgia

• An Austrian exporter sells snow making equipment to Georgia
• TBC Bank, Georgia issues a confirmed letters of Credit for total value EUR 2,280,820.74 with post-financing by Raiffeisen Bank, Austria
• EBRD covers 100% of the political and commercial payment risk

TFP Deal of the Year 2016 Import of a floating dock from Ukraine

• A shipyard in Limassol, Cyprus, imports a floating dock from Ukraine
• Bank of Cyprus issues an L/C to ING Belgium SA/NV with a tenor of 1 year
• The EBRD TFP guarantee covers 100% of the payment risk of the Issuing Bank in Cyprus to the Confirming Bank in Belgium

EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme

Annual Business Volumes 1999 – 2016
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TFP – 1, 359 Transactions in 2016 Ranking No of Transactions by Country

• Ukraine
• Armenia
• Serbia
• Cyprus
• Belarus
• Greece
• Georgia
• Mongolia
• Egypt
• Morocco
• Turkey
• FYR Macedonia

• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Romania
• Moldova
• Jordan
• Azerbaijan
• Tajikistan
• Kyrgyz Republic
• Tunisia
• Montenegro
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Kosovo

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EBRD TFP – Top 20 Confirming Banks

• Commerzbank
• KBC Bank
• Deutsche Bank
• ING Bank
• BHF Bank
• Unicredit Bank
• Citibank
• Intesa Sanpaolo
• Banca Popolare Di Sondrio
• Raiffeisen Bank

• Credit Suisse
• UBS
• Societe Generale
• Credit Agricole
• DZ Bank
• Banco de Sabadell
• Rabobank International
• Danske Bank
• Skandinavska Enskilda Banken
• Arab Bank

Ranked by Number of Transactions in 2016
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EBRD TFP – Co-Financing Partners

• ACE Global Markets (AGM) & Lloyds of London
• AKA Bank, Germany
• Arab Trade Finance Program, Abu Dhabi
• Confirming Banks
• Donor Risk Sharing Funds
• Export Credit Agencies
• FMO Netherlands
• OPEC Fund for International Development, Vienna
• Private Investment Funds

EBRD - Best Development Bank in Trade

Readers and editors of Trade Finance Magazine, Global Trade Review (GTR) and Global Finance have voted the EBRD in 2015 and 2016

“ Best Development Bank in Trade”

EBRD invites other development banks, commercial financial institutions, export credit agencies and donors to co-finance or co-finance with the EBRD

Donors

• The Early Transition Countries Fund
• The Shareholder Special Fund
• European Union
• Norwegian, Swiss, Italian, Canadian, Taiwanese funding and other donors

TFP Technical Cooperation (TC) Projects funded by: