Crédit Agricole CIB ranks amongst the world’s leading players worldwide in the area of export credits alongside European, Asian and North American public insurance companies in several different international rankings. In June 2009, Crédit Agricole CIB has been recognised by Trade & forfaitingNon-recourse purchase of trade receivables, export supplier's credit Review and Global Trade Review in the “Deal of the Year 2008” category for the Office National d'Electricité ("ONE") transaction in Morocco.

Export & Trade Finance has a significant counterparty risk taking capacity on both corporate groups and financial institutions which enables Crédit Agricole CIB to manage and underwrite large transactions:

• issuance and re-issuance of guarantees, 
• confirmation of letters of credit,
• discounting of trade receivables,
• Export Credit Agency (ECA) and / or Private Insurance (PRI) covered financing,
• export credit master agreements, etc.

Crédit Agricole CIB maintains teams of recognised professionals. It has developed an appreciated advisory capability in international trade operations (country risk approach, transaction structuring, counterparty risk hedging strategy, off balance sheet treatment, etc.).

Export & Trade Finance offers its customers a comprehensive range of products in the areas of international contract guarantees, documentary products and credit facilities.

• The international guarantees include bid bonds, advance payment guarantees and performance bonds.
• Documentary products as documentary collections, import and export letters of credit (advised, confirmed, insured), commercial standby letters of credit.
• Refinancing of letters of credit on the issuing bank, letter of credit discounting, purchase with or without recourse of trade receivables with or without bank guarantees (forfaiting).
• Discounting with or without recourse of suppliers credit with or without insurance cover.
• Buyer credits in foreign currencies and local currencies guaranteed by public insurance companies and tied commercial loans financing the down payment and the local part of the commercial contract.
• Financial credits with or without cover from private insurance companies.
• Untied loans covered by public insurance companies.
• Cofinancings alongside multilateral development institutions (International Financial Corporation, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, etc.).
• The OPTIM Trade transactional portal provides a flexible internet based, highly secured remote banking tool for the processing of fund flows regarding the international trade.

Organised as a global business line its professionals are distributed amongst two centres of expertise:
 

• The Origination group is organised into geographical areas with about one hundred professionals. Each team serves all the clients within its area of expertise whether importers, exporters or investors wishing to hedge part of the country / counterparty risk involved in their foreign trade operations. The synergy between the teams ensures, on the one hand, an comprehensive knowledge of an exporter, an investor or a credit insurance (or equivalent) company in a country of origin and, on the other hand, a suitable knowledge of the importer’s country. This unit uses the technical competence of the Products and Structuring team.

• A Products and Structuring group with about forty specialists. Their mission is to develop and promote the product line’s expertises in close liaison with the originating teams. As experts in their respective areas (export finance, multilateral finance, forfaiting, trade finance products, private insurance, etc.), they are involved upstream and all along the preparation of transactions (from advisory right through to arrangement). They thus contribute to the adapted and innovative character of the solutions proposed by the originators to their clients. A team is particularly dedicated to the negotiation and preparation of the documentation of export finance operations. Lastly, a dedicated team is responsible for the active management and monitoring of our asset portfolio.