SunTrust's expanding international trade business

Susanne Keough has long worked to promote international trade. As head of global trade solutions at SunTrust Bank, she inaugurated a partnership with Citi in September 2009 that allowed the largely regional US bank to leverage its larger peer's global footprint to meet the growing international needs of SunTrust's clients. Even before she joined the bank she promoted international trade -- at AmTrade International Bank and as an export finance manager for the state of Georgia. She recently sat down with FinanceAsia to discuss SunTrust's trade business in Asia and the bank's partnership with Citi.

Please describe SunTrust's trade business.

SunTrust, based in Atlanta, Georgia, serves...