UniCredit rated as Best Trade Finance Bank in Italy and #5 Trade Finance Provider worldwide
• The Euromoney Trade Finance Survey rates UniCredit as
"Best Trade Finance bank" in Italy as well as in 5 CEE
Countries
• Poll also places UniCredit among the top 5 Trade Finance
providers worldwide
• UniCredit further top rankings in the following
categories: trade documentation, Supply Chain Finance,
innovation and structured trade finance
More than 1,500 international companies participated in the annual survey called by the monthly business and financial publication Euromoney to elect the Best Trade Finance provider across a range of service categories.
UniCredit was named the #5-highest score worldwide and
among top 3 for Central and Eastern Europe. In addition,
UniCredit was ranked number one in Italy and 5 CEE home
markets reaching the top position as "Best Trade
Finance Bank". This is a significant improvement
compared to last year.
The strong global network, risk management, online trade
finance capabilities and emerging market knowledge were
decisive factors for the voters of the poll, but the most
important factors for selecting UniCredit were the
excellent results achieved in the categories trade
documentation, supply chain finance and structured trade
finance capabilities where UniCredit was rated in the top 3
banks.
Federico Ghizzoni, UniCredit CEO said: "We are proud to be
ranked as one of the most innovative, capable and efficient
Trade Finance provider in the world, able to serve
companies globally, regardless of their size. Being amongst
the very top global players in this field is yet another
example of how UniCredit can help businesses at all stages
of their development to grow and prosper; no other major
bank can offer customers such a robust commercial banking
network in Western and Central-Eastern Europe."
Marco Bolgiani, head of Global Transaction Banking at
UniCredit commented: " We are able to offer our
clients all products along the value chain. This is
reflected by the awards we were given to as Best Trade
Finance bank in several of our home markets. We are very
proud that our clients have recognized our overall efforts,
and in particular in the area of documentary trade, where
UniCredit is setting the market standard with one of the
most advanced multi-bank electronic platforms in the world.
Also in the fast developing field of Supply Chain Finance,
we are offering state-of-art products that support very
flexible solutions for both Buyers and Suppliers."
Milan, 2012 January 18th
UniCredit
UniCredit is a major international financial institution
with strong roots in 22 European countries and an overall
international network present in approximately 50 markets,
over 9,500 branches and 160,000 employees as of 30
September 2011.
In the CEE region, UniCredit operates the largest
international banking network with nearly 3,900
branches.
The Group operates in the following countries: Austria,
Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania,
Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Global Transaction Banking
Global Transaction Banking (GTB) at UniCredit combines the
local expertise of over 2,000 professionals with the
knowledge and experience of a truly sophisticated global
transaction bank. Its diverse and proven set of core
competencies in the fields of Cash Management, Trade
Finance, Structured Trade & Export Finance and Global
Securities Services has won widespread recognition as shown
by the many international awards it regularly receive.
Press Contacts
Media Relations: Tel. +39 02 88628236; e-mail: MediaRelations@unicredit.eu
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