Ecobank named Africa’s Best Bank for Trade Finance in Global Finance Awards
Ecobank Group(www.ecobank.com) is a leading private pan-African financial services group with unparalleled African expertise and he is honored to be appointed as the best trade finance provider in Africa, at the Global Finance Trade and Supply Chain Finance Awards 2025.
Michael Larbie, the group executes corporate and investment banking operations. “We focus on providing our customers with a wide range of trade financing solutions and excellent trade services, leveraging the single market of the continental free trade zone. This is an example of our innovative “Ecobank Single Market Trade Center” that connects it with our comprehensive trade assistant, which connects buyers and suppliers to our trade financing in a comprehensive range of Africans and their businesses and our absolute commitment to delivering a better Africa”.
Ecobank uses a variety of payment methods to provide its customers with a comprehensive trade solution to facilitate cross-border and domestic trade across the entire network of 35 sub-Saharan African countries. It provides a unique in-house trade solution for Africa, enabling customers to effectively resolve their domestic and international trade transactions while mitigating payment risks. The bank works closely with clients to review key aspects of transaction processing, including settlement, financing, risk reduction, credit enhancement and applicable exchange control regulations. Ecobank’s trade products and solutions are designed around three broad areas: structured trade and commodity financing; trade services; and supply chain financing.
The judges of the Global Finance Awards chose Ecoband as a Trade Financing Provider Award based on inputs from industry analysts, corporate executives and technologists, as well as objective and subjective factors such as Ecobank’s trade-related transaction volume, its global scope, global coverage, customer service, competitive price, risk price management, risk management, risk management and innovative products, services and technologies.
On March 12, 2025, the trophy was presented to Ecobank at the BAFT European Bank-Bank Forum in Amsterdam.
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About Ecobank:
Ecobank Group is the leading private pan-African banking group with unparalleled African expertise. Its unique pan-African platform provides a portal for payments, cash management, trade and investment across 35 sub-Saharan African countries as well as platforms in France, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and China. The group has more than 14,000 employees and provides consumer, commercial, corporate and investment banking products, services and solutions to multiple channels including digital channels, providing them to over 32 million customers. For more information, please visit www.ecobank.com
