Index of ECA Watch What's New Bulletins from January 2008 to December 2008
Indices for 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
June 2008
1) The OECD Common Approaches are dead!
2) Environmental Groups Condemn Japanese and French Banks for Financing Sakhalin II Oil and Gas Project in Russia
A. Photo report from Sakhalin fact finding mission
3) OPIC agrees to review Bolivian community's mining project complaint
4) ECAs approve funding for controversial Camisea LNG project
5) German ECA Hermes bankrolls climate change
6) How ECA corporate support indebts the world's poor
7) Ongoing ECA fraud investigations raise questions of OECD ECA compliance
8) House of Lords to hear SFO appeal of ruling re BAE / Saudi / ECGD scandal
May 2008
1) Dutch urged to keep export credit sustainable
2) ECAs meet in Vienna to overcome Turkish inability to meet Ilisu conditions
3) Exporting Destruction. Export credits, illegal logging and deforestation
4) Areva and Westinghouse vie for South African nuclear plant with ECA support
5) EDC announces human rights policy
6) EDC supports XOJet purchase of Bombardier Challenger jets
7) San Antonio Businessman Accused of Defrauding U.S. ExIm Bank of Millions
8) US ExIm to fund India power plants
9) India waives ECA debt to Cuba
10) OECD commemorates 30 years of "The Arrangement"
April 2008
1) UK court declares cancellation of ECA BAE/Saudi fraud case illegal
2) UN's Ruggie focuses spotlight on export credit agencies
3) Sace joins ECA refusals to support trade with Iran
4) High cost of Indian ECA coverage a hindrance to deeper India/Russia trade relations
5) ECAs important for aircraft financing
6) Russian, French and Italian ECAs sign deal for super jet development
7) South Africa writes off ECA debt from Cuba
8) Planned Hungarian guarantee scheme incompatible with EU rules
9) US Eximbank approves $2.2 billion program for India
10) Kazakhstan and China: Relations strengthened further, facilitated by ECAs
March 2008
1) Sakhalin Energy withdraws finance applications to US & UK ECAs
2) lisu controversy exposed by Experts and Financial Times
A. Protest Rallies Against Turkish Dam Held All Over Europe
B. Berlin May Withdraw Backing for Turkish Project
C. Financial Times Weekend Magazine highlights Ilisu "Deep Divide"
D. ECA Committee of Experts report now available
3) Chinese ECA mired in Filipino corruption enquiries
4) Nationalisation of Dutch Export Credit Facility
5) Australian ECA EFIC finances Trinidad Coast Guard vessels
6) Investors sought for Yemen LNG project as costs skyrocket
7) Turkish geothermal plant qualifies for US ExIm renewable energy incentives
February 2008
1) SFO in UK High Court over dropped BAE bribery investigation
2) OECD announces new sustainable lending policies for export credits
3) Hermes changes export guarantee rules
4) Zurich Emerging Markets to insure controversial carbon credit projects
5) South African ECIC insures Malawian uranium mine project
6) New Ilisu Campaign Website
7) ECGD and Sinosure sign MoU on wider co-operation
8) European Parliamentary Committee encourages Chinese ECAs to conduct EIAs
9) US ExIm Bank increases coverage for Angola
January 2008
1) New report guides campaigners to previously hidden export credit information
2) More fiddling while Rome burns - banks float non-binding carbon principles
3) IFC approves US$300 million for flawed Peruvian Camisea II LNG project
4) Britain Unsure on Sakhalin
5) Indonesia signs US$615 power plant loan with China's Export-Import Bank
6) World Bank continues efforts to engage China's Export-Import Bank
7) New Chairman for ECGD's Advisory Council
8) SACE chooses Lehman Brothers to advise on privatization
9) Chad's unrest is partially related to ECA supported pipeline project
10) New DebtWatch book covers Spanish ECA CESCE's support for Spanish Companies