Index of ECA Watch What's New Bulletins from January 2006 to December 2006
Indices for 2008 2007 2005 2004 2003 2002
December 2006
1) ECGD related fraud investigation closed in the UK
2) OECD ECAs renege on agreement to promote OECD MNC Guidelines
3) Switzerland & Germany agree to guarantees for controversial Ilisu Dam project
4) Record levels of business for export credit agencies in 2005
5) Exxon, Recipient of Worst EU Lobbying Award, receives Billions in ECA subsidies
6) IRN presents ECAs and the Environment paper to China Ex-Im President
7) Chinese ECAs and the Environment
8) Zambia copper mine secures $583,8m loan
9) Ence Finds New Site for Proposed ECA financed Uruguay Pulp Mill
10) US Congress bolsters export credit agency's small business efforts
11) Halifax Initiative Canadian Mining Map Poster Highlights Destructive Mines
November 2006
1) Belgian ECA concerned about reputational risk over Sakhalin II cover
2) Norway makes ground-breaking decision to cancel illegitimate ECA debt
3) Flying Low: The UK Export Credit Guarantee Department and Climate Change
4) OECD’s Gurría welcomes Stern Review into consequences of climate change
5) OECD negotiations on export credit environment standards break down
6) Russia wants to help Indonesia build first nuclear power plant
7) Russia says damages in Shell Sakhalin project could amount to US$15 billion
8) In the light of the recent Stern report, can carbon offsetting really work?
9) International Rivers Network action guide for communities affected by dams
10) French court stops Goro Nickel construction
October 2006
1) European Commission investigates French nuclear export credits
2) OECD Export Credit Updates
- a. Review of the Common Approaches on Environment and export credits
- b. More questions re OECD export credit monitoring statistics
3) Ilisu Dam update
4) Yusufeli Dam going ahead
5) Belgian ECA's private insurance subsidiary questioned in European Parliament
6) Vietnamese and Philippino airlines expand fleets with ECA support
7) Russian arms exports and export credits
8) Chinese export credits and environmental impacts
9) African Trade Insurance Agency
10) AFRODAD workshop on ECAs and African debt in Cameroon
11) Rheebu Nuu files injunction in Paris to halt Goro Nickel construction
12) ECAs fund coal fired power in Botswana / South Africa
September 2006
1) Three European ECAs set to support Ilisu dam despite obvious failure to meet standards
2) Spanish company announces withdrawal from papermill investment in Uruguay
3) Armaris bids for four Bulgarian corvettes with Coface support
4) Flawed OECD reporting and analysis of HIPC transactions
5) Ex-Im increases subsidies for aircraft
6) G7 to discourage China from unproductive, expensive debt
7) Swedish Export Credit Corp. sells $1 billion in five-year global notes
8) EBRD urged by WWF to not fund controversial Sakhalin project
9) Armenians welcome US Senate move to block Ex-Im subsidy for railroad bypass
August 2006
1) BP Alaska: What lessons for the Common Approaches?
2) OECD Common Approaches Review update
3) Atradius signs consulting agreement with Chinese ECA
4) Russia repays US$22 billion in ECA debt - ECAs should forgive LDC debt
5) New sensitive Category A projects announced by ECAs
6) Moscow puts legal pressure on Shell to halt Sakhalin pipeline
7) Turkish dam controversy tests government
8) Swedish SEK Lending is Reaching New Records
9) UK Serious Fraud Office investigates murky Nigerian oil deal with ECA support
10) OECD publishes latest Common Approaches procedures questionnaire results
11) Export-Import Bank of China to Offer Loans to Taiwanese Businesses
July 2006
1) Atradius swaps Indonesia coverage for Viet Nam with Denmark's EKF
2) With easy nickel fading fast, INCO goes after the tough stuff at Goro Nickel
3) Changing markets for export credit agencies: China, private sector ECAs
4) Iran amongst the best UK export credit clients
5) Human rights and ECAs
6) Japan publishes complete projects list (Categories A, B and C)
7) Farnborough air show - 30% of sales ECA financed
8) ECAs and arms
9) BTC pipeline opens
10) First renewables loan for US Ex-Im
June 2006
1) European Commission hosts ECA conference
2) G8 Warns Against Luring Poor States Into Debt Trap
3) Shanghai Cooperation Organization
4) ECAs and the Arms Trade
5) Indonesia buys Polish Skytrucks with export credit
6) China's controversial ECA backed Three Gorges dam comes onstream
7) Kanaks & environmentalists call for end to support for Goro Nickel in New Caledonia
8) Australia: Big brother, deputy sheriff or responsible neighbour?
9) ECA supported Bulgarian 670MW power plant project kicks off after 7-yr delay
10) US tapping export credit "war chest"
11) At 50, Is the Paris Club a Colonial Relic?
May 2006
1) OECD approves new Action Statement on Bribery and Official Export Credits
2) Civil society presses OECD on Common Approaches to the Environment
3) India looks to JIBC for lower monitoring requirements than World Bank
4) Ilusu dam update
5) Index of What's New back issues
6) Pulp Friction: Increasingly bitter dispute over pulp mills on Uruguay River
7) BTC pipeline terrorist alert
8) Sakhalin - Shell falsifies monitoring reports
9) Disagreements still remain on agricultural export credit competition
10) The IFC Performance Standards: One Step Forward, One Step Back
11) Legal Obligations of ECAs With Respect to Human Rights
April 2006
1) NGOs accuse EU countries of inflating aid figures with ECA debt cancellation
2) OECD publishes ECA statistical summary from 1998 to 2004
3) JIBC publishes new category A, B and C projects list
4) Merowe Dam displaced people's meeting attacked in Sudan - three killed
5) Export Development Canada projects growing ECA competition for export sales
6) Sinosure to outfinance US Ex-Im Bank by 10 times by 2010
7) Nigeria gives China oil rights in exchange for investment and export credits
8) Finnvera to reappraise controversial ECA supported pulp mill in Uruguay
9) NGO submission on Sakhalin finds unwarranted & uncontainable reputational risks
10) Chinese ECA to fund Mozambique dam which will Exacerbate Poverty, Livelihoods
March 2006
1) ECGD approves new/old anti-corruption policies
2) ECA Watch compares anti-bribery proposals
3) Dam project brings Laos cash and controversy
4) IFC Standards approved
5) International experts intensify critique of Ilisu dam while regional resistance grows
6) Sinosure and Chinese export credits
7) Uruguayan pulp and paper complex faces legal battle and diplomatic pressures
8) U.S. Aerospace Industries back Ex-Im Bank charter extension
9) French ECA Coface expands it's international business
10) Berne Union members support 10% of US$10 Trillion in world trade in 2005
11) Italy's SACE lends to Vietnamese diesel plant
12) India establishes new US$448 million export credit fund
February 2006
1) Update on negotiations for a new OECD Action Statement on Bribery and ECAs: Delays, weak policies and incoherence mar ECA efforts to tackle corruption
2) Mexican coal fired power plant receives Japanese ECA support
3) Finnvera underwrites construction of world's largest cruise ship
4) Turkish Eximbank plans US$8.6 billion in loans and guarantees this year
5) Hermes forced to reveal greenhouse gas impacts
6) Ilisu Dam EIA released - NGOs show new design to be seriously flawed
7) Atradius-DSB refuses support for Setusamudram Shipping Channel Project (India)
8) Atradius-DSB Business is Booming
9) Consultants Warn Banks of Sakhalin II Environment Risks
10) Human rights and ECAs: the Uruguayan paper mills case
January 2006
1) Common Approaches to the Environment & ECAs Under Review in 2006
2) Peaceful Protest Disrupts Sakhalin II LNG Plant
3) Dutch Protests Threaten ECA-Supported Sale of Indonesian Navy Corvettes
4) Coface Lends US$100m to India for Dam
5) Japanese ECAs to be Restructured
6) World Bank Cuts Off Loans to Chad Over Abrogation of Pipeline Revenue Agreement
7) Russian Arms Exports and Export Credits
8) Garuda Faces ECA Creditors
9) EDC Reposesses Planes
10) Inuit Sue US Ex-Im Bank Over Greenhouse Gas Impacts
11) Sustainable Finance: Moving the Banking Sector from Promises to Performance
12) Mauritania oil consortium bypasses ECAs