Banks keep the economy’s lifeblood flowing

Trade finance has a vital role that provides stable earnings and attractive returns on relatively small capital outlays for banks. And although less often a loss leader than in the past, relationships it opens up are a crucial route for other business. Laurence Neville reports

Global overall and regional overall results
Service category satisfaction ratings
Wallet share by region

In world trade, banks turn out not to be the villains
*Banks keep the economy’s lifeblood flowing*
Corporate perspective: Office Depot
Rise of the multilaterals
Methodology

About the trade finance survey
The survey is designed to give our readers valuable information on the trade finance market and the opportunity to rank trade finance providers across a selection of service categories and an overall global ranking of providers as rated by their clients.