Rudolf Putz

Rudolf Putz is Head of EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme and has more than 30 years of experience in financing trade with Eastern Europe & CIS countries.

He started his professional career in 1983 as Deputy Head of Commodity Trade Finance at Centro Internationale Handelsbank AG Vienna, a subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB).

In 1993 Rudolf Putz joined HELM AG Hamburg as Head of Structured Trade Finance and from 1996 to 1997 he was Deputy Head of Structured Trade Finance in Bank Austria International Trade Services.

In 1997 he became Director Trade Finance in Deutsche Handelsbank AG Berlin and since 2000 he has been developing EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP).

Rudolf Putz holds a Doctor’s Degree from the Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration.

More green, more digital: In conversation with EBRD’s incoming Shona Tatchell and outgoing Rudolf Putz

Video | More green, more digital: In conversation with EBRD’s incoming Shona Tatchell and outgoing Rudolf Putz

At the EBRD 2024 annual meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, the Trade Facilitation Program (TFP) was in the spotlight as it transitions leadership from Rudolf Putz to Shona Tatchell. 

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Deepesh Patel and Rudolf Putz at the EBRD TFP Forum

Video | 40 years in trade finance: EBRD’s Rudolf Putz on the development of the Trade Facilitation Programme

At the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) 2023 Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) conference in Vienna, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Rudolf Putz, head of the trade facilitation programme at the EBRD, looking back at his career with the EBRD. 

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Rudolf Putz

“Green”: the new transition concept, EBRD

TFG heard from the EBRD around their ambitious Green Economy Transition (GET) approach, including the Green TFP which has supported more than 600 foreign trade transactions with a total value of more than €400 million since 2016.

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