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UniCredit Group has an excellent position in three neighbouring home markets and clear market leadership in the growth market of Central and Eastern Europe, providing the Group with a visible USP for corporate customers in cross-border business. To ensure an internationally attractive range of products and services for exporters, for example, the cross-bank product area Global Financial Services was set up in 2006. Global Financial Services efficiently combines the banks’ existing expertise in cross-border business for the Group, and thus for customers, and bundles the Group’s business relationships with correspondent banks using its central hub function. Global Financial Services comprises the following segments: financial institutions, cash management and export finance / trade finance.