[3] Prior to his arrival in Russia, Trani served in the Italian Army[2] and was employed as a banker hailing different positions at Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

[4] Trani arrived in Russia in 2001 when he saw an advertisement in the Moscow Times about the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

[4] He started out as a senior advisor of small and midsize business development and then as the EBRD representative of the board of directors.

[2] Trani founded the company, Mikro Kapital launched in 2008, a firm which lends loans to small scale and medium-sized businesses in Russia, East Europe and CIS countries.

[6][7][8][9] From 2019 to 2022 he was President of the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce[10][11][12][13] In March 2021, The Guardian reported that Trani had helped close the deal on an arrangement in which ten million doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine would be produced in Italy for export to non-EU countries by the end of 2021.