Česká Exportní Banka, a.s.
Last updated on 16 Feb 2024
Key facts
Agency that supports Czech exporters and is a specialized state-owned banking institution supervised by the Ministry of Finance. It is a subsidiary of EGAP.
PUBLIC
1995
Credit rating (S&P)
AA-
AA-
Foreign currency
Local currency
Authorizations, exposure, and country export data
FY 2022 top financing products
Loan for outbound investments
64%
Non-payment guarantee
18%
Purchase of receivables
11%
Loan to finance export manufacturing
5%
Direct export customer loan
2%
2023 top export destinations
Financing modalities
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Products
- Financing large-scale Czech deliveries to foreign buyers
- Tenor:
- Short-term: Up to 2 years
- Medium and long-term: Generally up to 10 years
- Renewable energy, climate-change mitigation and water projects 15–18 years
- Rail infrastructure 14 years
- New aircrafts 12 years / used aircrafts 5–10 years
- Non-nuclear power plants 12 years
- Nuclear power plants 18 years
- Financed amount:
- Short-term: Up to 100% of export contract amount
- Medium to long-term: Up to 85% of export contract amount, with 15% advance payment
- Interest rate:
- Short-term: LIBOR, EURIBOR
- Medium and long-term: Fixed rate CIRR or its equivalent based on market rates (LIBOR, EURIBOR)
- Other financial modalities:
- Indirect buyer credit: Bank-to-bank finance where CEB provides financing to importer’s bank
- Refinancing of buyer export credit: Bank-to-bank finance enables exporter's bank to obtain funds to provide credit to the foreign importer or its bank
- Currency: EUR or USD
- Direct supplier credit enables Czech exporter to finance cost arising from delivery or shipment of goods and/or services
- Tenor:
- Short-term: Up to 2 years
- Medium and long-term: Over 2 years
- Financing amount:
- Short-term: Up to 100% of export contract amount
- Medium and long-term: Up to 85% of export contract amount, with 15% advance payment
- Interest rate:
- Short-term: Based on market interest rates
- Medium and long-term: Fixed rate CIRR or its equivalent based on market rates (LIBOR, EURIBOR, etc.)
- Other financial modalities:
- Refinancing of supplier’s credit: Bank-to-bank finance enables exporter's bank to obtain funds to provide credit to the foreign importer or its bank
- Provides Czech investors a long-term credit facility for investment abroad or extension of a foreign company with Czech participation
- Minimum repayment tenor of 3 years
- Interest rate: Fixed-rate CIRR or equivalent based on market rates
- Minimum 20% own resources required (usually 25%)
- Credit for pre-export financing enables Czech producer or exporter to finance costs connected with deliveries for foreign buyer
- Eligible costs:
- Purchase of raw materials and other components for export production
- Purchase of materials for export that are integral to Czech production
- Personnel costs (i.e., wages, social, and medical insurance)
- Acquisition of investment assets for production that will be exported
- Tenor:
- Short-term: Up to 2 years
- Medium and long-term: Over 2 years
- Financing amount:
- Short-term: Up to 85% of export contract amount
- Medium and long-term: Up to 75% of export contract amount
- Interest rate: Medium and long-term based on market (LIBOR, EURIBOR)
- Transaction support for project finance considered on a case-by-case basis
- Bid bonds, advance payment guarantees, performance bonds, warranty / retention bonds
- Issuance of both direct and indirect (counter) guarantees is possible;
- Receivables discounting / forfaiting
- Export and import Letter of Credit – advising, confirmation and issuance based on UCP600 international rules
Policies
- EGAP insurance is no longer a condition for the provision of supported financing by ČEB; other forms of security may substitute EGAP insurance
- Wide range of products for SME export production funding or export funding
- Adheres to OECD guidelines
- Anti-money laundering
News
- 2024: Czech Export Bank doubled its profit to a record billion in 2023
- 2023: Czech Export Bank (ČEB) will become a subsidiary of the National Development Bank (NRB)