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Export finance: BTMU bucks the trend
20 December 2011
BTMU’s global strategy for export credit is a timely reminder that even when some banks scale back in this business, there are always others eager to increase their share. John Geddie reports.
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We live in uncertain times. These are times when cautious export financiers are stripping their balance sheets, cutting client lines and relying on the advisory side of their business to generate revenue. Although export credit may be seen as a pioneering product, at present few are using it to actively expand their business.
Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi (BTMU) is, however, an exception to this rule. Since establishing an office in London a few years back, it has been slowly accruing an enviable global platform to facilitate crossborder, multi-ECA transactions.
Speaking to Trade Finance Magazine at the 12th Annual Global Export Finance Conference event in Berlin, Toru Masutani, global head of ECA, commodities and trade finance at BTMU, explains: “We started by supporting Japanese exporters through Japanese export credit agencies (ECAs), now we are trying to support our existing non-Japanese...
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