21.   Trade finance and commercial banking activities involving mainland-linked entities helped greatly.

22.   Yeltsin ordered the government to implement mechanisms of trade finance and guarantees to stimulate exports of those products, he said.

23.   He said Citibank would focus on treasury activities such as foreign exchange and derivative products, and transactional services such as cash management, trade finance and fund raising.

24.   He said the bank had so far been concentrating on commercial banking and trade finance.

25.   The services include cash management, lending in local Asian currencies, local transaction facilities and trade finance.

26.   The World Bank Wednesday said Bangladesh must improve access to adequate infrastructure and trade finance to get the full benefits of ongoing trade liberalisation.

27.   Its business includes the provision of foreign trade finance to US residents and acceptance of deposits from non-US residents.

28.   Schroeder said US investors still faced considerable obstacles investing in Vietnam, including non transparent trade regulations, tariffs, lack of trade finance.

29.   The APIB will focus initially on trade finance, project lending, corporate advisory services and generating wholesale funding from the local market and overseas.

30.   The hunger for credit in Asia was believed to be driven by demand for trade finance and the country with by far the biggest appetite was South Korea.