Nairobi, April 2025–The Trade and Development Bank Group (TDB Group) is honoured to have been recognised with three accolades by Global Finance in 2025, reflecting the Group’s performance, resilience and growing impact across the continent and beyond.
Under the World’s Best Trade Finance Providers awards, TDB Group won for the second time Best Bank for Trade Finance in Frontier Markets, a global-level award celebrating the Bank’s excellence in providing impactful and innovative trade finance solutions in TDB Group’s frontier economies. Likewise, with Kenya hosting the Bank’s Operations Hub, TDB Group also received recognition as Best Trade Finance Provider in Kenya and Best Bank in Kenya.
In recent years, TDB Group has prioritised financing regional trade, energy access, infrastructure, and agribusiness, while also expanding the deployment of blended finance and sustainable instruments. The Group’s integrated offerings, including those of the ESATF trade fund have played a pivotal role in supporting trade flows of essential goods and services, particularly in frontier markets where trade finance remains a critical enabler of development.
In 2023, TDB was similarly recognised by Global Finance for its leadership in sustainable finance, having received awards for Outstanding Leadership in Sustainable Finance by a Multilateral Institution and Outstanding Leadership in Sustainable Project Finance. More recently in 2024, among others, the Bank won EMEA Finance’s Best ECA Syndicated Loan and notably, TDB Group’s President and Managing Director was recognised as Banker of the Year at the African Banker Awards
This year’s triple recognition underscores the Group’s growing impact and evolving role as a catalyst for inclusive growth and resilience.
With a diversified portfolio and asset base exceeding USD 10 billion, TDB Group continues to strengthen its footprint across Africa, enabling trade, integration, and transformation. As the Group expands, it remains focused on unlocking capital, fostering partnerships, and addressing development needs across its growing membership.
About TDB
Established in 1985, the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) is an African regional development finance group, with the mandate to finance and foster trade, regional economic integration and sustainable development. With an asset base of USD 10 bn, TDB Group has 25 African member states, which alongside non-regional member countries and institutional investors from Africa, Europe and Asia, form TDB’s community of shareholders.
TDB Group counts several subsidiaries and strategic business units including Trade and Development Banking, TDB Group Asset Management, the Trade and Development Fund (TDF), TDB Captive Insurance Company (TCI), the ESATAL fund management company and TDB Academy.