Index of ECA Watch What's New Bulletins from January 2011 to December 2011
Indices for 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
January 20111) Jubilee Debt report finds 96% of Third World debt to UK comes from failed exports
2) Aircraft financing to emerge from the gloom in 2011
A. The export credit debate explained
B. Airbus sets records and expects more export credit in 2011
C. ECAs stepped in to replace commerical banks
D. EMBRAER gets first Brazilian export credit guarantee with foreign bank
E. OECD export credit fees to rise in February
3) Chinese export credits push international competition and controversy
A. More Western nations match China's financing strategy to win contracts
B. EU prepares to challenge China export credits
C. Has China's export financing met it's match?
D. Is there a catch in Chinese loan to Nigerian refineries?
E. More cooperation between Chinese and European banks
F. China initiates pilot export insurance to support culture
4) UK Trade Minister Urged to Expand Export Support to Green Firms
5) Australia's Ferra lands exclusive military contract with ECA help
6) Argentina to repay Paris Club defaulted debt
7) FERN Briefing on ECAs and Climate Change
8) Swedish ECA dividend helps reduce government deficit
February 2011
1) UK export push 'could create toxic debt'
2) Commission opens in-depth investigations into short-term credits of Belgian & Italian ECAs
3) Greater ECA accountability needed – but how?
4) Will U.S. Taxpayers Be Asked to Finance Environmental Devastation in South Africa?
5) EU Finds China Gives Aid to Telecommunication Equipment Makers
6) China study finds EU subsidized telecom firms
7) Dutch Government and Atradius Dutch State Business launch SME export accelerator
8) Germany Owed 187.4 Million Euros of Credits by Egypt, Bild Says
9) UBA, HSBC Sign $100m OECD ECA backed loan deal
March 2011
1) BP violating human rights rules in ECA supported project, says UK government
2) EC opens in-depth investigations of Ducroire and SACE BT short‑term export-credit support
3) EC approves extension of Danish short-term export credit scheme
4) Campaigners dressed as maids demand governments clean up their exports
5) OECD wants creation of a maximum 12-year term for aircraft export credit support
6) US Government studies reorganization of trade agencies to promote competitiveness
7) J.P. Morgan signs agreement with SINOSURE
8) Arab Fund Lends Sudan $360 Million for New Airport, Two Dams
April 2011
1) WTO trade negotiations over export credits are at an impasse
2) US Ex-Im Bank adopts Equator Principles & finances largest ever carbon emitting project
3) European Parliament demands that Export Credit Agencies open up
4) In search of a level playing field: the 2011 Aircraft Sector Understanding
5) Huawei's $30 Billion Chinese ECA Credit Opens Doors in Brazil, Mexico
6) U.S. Boosts Farm-Export-Credit Assistance by $2.7 Billion
7) Time to end the underwriting of unethical business abroad
8) World Bank to limit funding for coal-fired power stations
May 2011
1) U.N. Committee expresses deep concern over rights violations at Ilisu dam in Turkey
2) Australia: EFIC's new Environment and Social Policy brings welcome changes
3) Amnesty expresses disappointment at lack of human rights policy in Common Approaches
4) Minutes of the proceedings of the 527th meeting of the EU Export Credits Group
5) US, Europe and Canada in civil aviation market conflict
6) Russia readies launch of Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agency
7) Ghana to join African Trade Insurance Agency
8) China Pledges Measures To Level Competitive Playing Field For US, Chinese Firms
June 2011
1) US Ex-Im Bank review of Nigeria Banking Facility and potential malfeasance
2) Giving human rights credit: EU countries agree to toughen export loan scrutiny
3) ECAs Financing nuclear times
4) Zimbabwe owes Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department (ECDG) £190,4 million
5) Gulf Carriers to Outpace Old Europe With Cargo Expansion: Freight Markets
6) U.S. must confront China export advantages: Eximbank
7) Germany's Hermes maintains international top position in reader survey
July 2011
1) ECA supported arms trade and the Greek debt crisis
2) 14th OECD ECA/CSO Consultation
3) Brazilian miner MMX taps banks & ECAS for $1.8 Billion mine expansion
4) Germany debates supporting nuclear power plants in other countries
5) How plane makers and others help airlines buy jets
6) US business divided over Ex-Im reauthorization
7) Bahrain gets capital markets boost
8) ECGD underwrites military sales to United Arab Emirates
August 2011
1) Angry landowner attacks expat staff at ECA financed LNG project in PNG - project work halted
2) U.S. Export-Import Bank breaks record for loan authorizations
3) Investment and trade insurers poised to resume Libyan activity once fighting eases
4) September 2011 version of the OECD administered Arrangement on Official Export Credit published
5) FoE Japan petition to end Japanese government promotion of nuclear exports
September 2011
1) Is lending in the aircraft financing market going down?
2) New appointments for UK ECGD export advisory panel
3) Australia's Productivity Commission to launch inquiry into EFIC
4) India's seafood exports under strain as export credit costs rise
5) UK's official export credit agency is back 'on cover' for Libya
6) Islamic export credit, political risk insurance boost for ICIEC
7) India has doubled its lines of credit (LOC) to Africa
8) Indian companies turn to Chinese loans to cuts export costs
9) Dutch development and export credit money wasted on harbour in Guatemala
10) European legislation forces export credit agencies to be more transparent
October 2011
1) Commonwealth summit hears of export, credit guarantees to help poor nations
2) Annual report of UN independent expert on debt & human rights focuses on ECAs
3) Europe Gives Export Credits to Chinese Airbus
4) NGOs Question U.S. Ex-Im Bank $1.5 billion Nigerian Power Deal
5) Wells Fargo Bank loan officer in large ECA fraud case to plead guilty
6) Wall Street Analysts Warn of Export-credit Satellite Financing Bubble
7) UK exporters report trouble accessing export credit
8) Johan Schrijver of Atradius elected President of Berne Union
9) Four ECA financed Dutch corvettes for Vietnam
10) OECD to negotiate new Common Approaches on ECAs & environment 14 Nov. 2011
11) India's Export Credit Guarantee Corporation imposes stringent rules for Syria & Greece
12) UK government fails to keep green pledge
13) Britain demands Egypt repay millions lent for arms deals
November 2011
1) ECA Watch submissions to 14 Nov OECD ECWG meeting
2) US airlines launch Ex-Im suit over Boeing & foreign airline subsidies
3) Eurodad report on ECAs and debt to be released 6 December
4) Indian Export-Import Bank Act increases capital five fold
5) Friends of the Earth Japan petitions against nuclear exports
6) Ukraine sets up export credit agency
7) Listening project documents the impacts of ECA supported Exxon LNG project in PNG
8) Prague Club meets in Oman
9) Indonesian Eximbank lending goes mostly to palm oil
10) Portuguese short-term export credit ruled a breach of EU competition law
11) China Ex-Im in scandal over Guyanese airport contract
12) UK ECA ECGD is rebranded as UK Export Finance
December 2011
1) OECD fails to agree on revised Common Approaches on export credit & the environment
2) Outrage at UK's $1bn export credit loan deal with Brazil oil giant
3) Export credit guarantees: The real cause of developing country debt
4) ECA Watch submission to the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Business
5) ECGD - UK Ministers accused of fiddling aid figures with 'made-up money'
6) Berne Union voices concerns about world trade
7) Boeing sees no aircraft financing gap in 2012
8) The Brookings Institution - Population Displacement and Export Credit
9) CEDHA report outlines violations of Equator Principles of mining project under ECA consideration
10) Nigeria's NEXIM Bank Disburses N70bn, $322m
11) Santos Obtains $1.2 Billion in Debt Financing to Help Fund LNG Projects
12) US business worries Eximbank may hit credit ceiling