This institution leverages its global network of correspondent banks in 14 markets in Asia Pacific to strengthen its global trade finance coverage. It was among the few global banks to establish a new office in Bangladesh in 2022 to monetise new opportunities for its trade finance financial institutions business. 

It successfully moved customer trade ecosystems from paper to digital. It also deployed a scalable core and external APIs to facilitate interoperability among trade networks and automate regulatory and compliance checks harnessing data. It implemented a data analytics dashboard that shows buyers how their payables programme is performing.

For its excellent structured trade finance capabilities and initiatives to transform manual trade finance processes into efficient solutions, the Best International Trade and Supply Chain Finance Bank in Asia Pacific is Deutsche Bank.