Index of ECA Watch What's New Bulletins from January 2010 to December 2010
Indices for 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
January 20101) ECA Watch & Amnesty outline OECD Common Approaches evaluation issues
2) ECA Watch urges G-20 not to exclude ECAs from fossil fuel subsidies analysis
3) Risky Business: Shining a spotlight on Australia's export credit agency
4) Export credit agencies to the rescue of trade finance
5) Developing countries want WTO study of bailout protectionist impact
6) ECGD releases BTC Pipeline assessment documents
7) ECGD rules raise child labour fears
8) China continues to develop export credit insurance to support trade
9) ECAs come to the rescue of Boeing and Airbus
10) Iran's Export Guarantee Fund Eyes Berne Union Membership
11) Eskom signs R13bn (US$1.7Bn) loan agreement with Coface
12) Israeli Credit Insurance Company boosts exports by more than US$268 million
February 2010
1) Legal Challenge Launched of UK Serious Fraud Office's BAE settlement
2) Turkey announces restart of Ilisu construction
3) Back to square one on nuclear export subsidies from Germany
4) European airlines seek end to home market export credit limits
5) Revisions proposed to OPIC's environmental, transparency, worker rights and human rights policies
6) OECD proposes new sector understanding on export credits for climate change and water projects
7) India's ECA monitors export credit risks of European economies in crisis
8) EU Plans Massive Sanctions Against Iran
9) Credit Insurance: You Want It, But Can You Get It? ECAs Cushion the Blow
March 2010
1) ECA Watch comments on ECG climate sector proposals
2) US Ex-Im's Carbon Policy Criticized by Environmental Groups
3) Amnesty International calls for human rights due diligence by ECAs and their clients
4) Australian ECA in Papua New Guinea - Why the secrecy? (Podcast summary)
5) UK Exporters call for state-backed trade finance
6) Dutch ECA insures large loans provided by shipyard to attract investments
7) Canadian firms dominate mining in Africa - and have a bad human rights record
8) Europe-wide protests against Turkish banks over Ilisu financing
9) JBIC and NEXI publish lists of new projects
10) Ecuador halts talks with China's Export Import Bank on hydro power financing
April 2010
1) Activists fight ECGD's child labour policy reversal
2) New FERN report: The Changing Landscape of ECAs & the Global Financial Crisis
3) Talks aim to curb jet subsidy
4) Banks push G20 to reform trade finance regulation
5) China's export credit insurance keeps rising in Q1
6) China: Not the Rogue Dam Builder We Feared It would Be?
7) Atradius DSB considers support for Congo's Port Autonome de Pointe Noire (PAPN)
May 2010
1) What's New reader survey
2) Exxon gets US ExIm Bank Funding After Paying for Trip
3) Export Credit Agency policies are not coherent with EU climate change policies
4) Construction restarts at controversial Ilisu dam
5) Trade credit insurance faces overhaul
6) WTO brokers trade finance talks for banks, regulators
7) Brazil Government To Create ExIm Bank, Boost Export Incentives
8) SACE elected to the Board of the African Trade Insurance Agency
June 2010
1) European ECA support to carbon intensive industries
2) How The Planet Pays The Price For Europe's Export Credits
3) UN urges responsible ECA lending to protect human rights
4) ECGD: The Department for Dodgy Deals
5) Chilean Communities & CSOs Urge US Ex-Im Bank to Reject Pascua Lama mine
6) New debt creating export fund condemned by Spanish civil society
7) Combating bribery in US$1.5 trillion export credit market requires stronger action
8) More fraud hits US ExIm Bank
9) Export credit agencies fill finance gap
10) UK MP asks for figures on ECGD fossil fuel project support
11) EADS: Many Banks Will Not Return To Aircraft Financing whle ECAs will grow
July 2010 - Not published - summer vacations
August 2010 - Not published - summer vacations
September 2010
1) ECA aircraft credits generate controversy
2) Exxon Mobil's ECA backed LNG project in PNG attacked
3) US Export-Import Bank Votes for final commitment on Sasan coal fired power project
4) Export-Import Bank Urged to End Fossil Fuel Binge and Support Renewables
5) China's export credit insurance corporation reports major growth
6) Gunns' proposed Tasmania pulp mill seeks Austrian and Finnish ECA support
7) Despite US drilling moratorium, ExIm to approve Mexican drilling
8) Nabucco in Talks With OECD ECAs to Finance $10.3 Billion Pipeline
9) First European export credit bond deal closed
10) USEC Submits Update to Loan Guarantee Application
October 2010
1) G20/OECD negotiations over export credits begin to heat up
2) Aircraft manufacturers and airlines face off over export credit subsidies
3) Hasankeyf protest camp raises voices against destructive Ilisu dam project in Turkey
4) New study urges EU states to include ECA subsidies in efforts to enforce human rights compliance
5) European export credits group coordinates responses to various OECD policy negotiations
6) Tiny St. Kitts reimburses Italy for official export credit financed fraudulent hydrofoil debt
7) Jubilee Australia reponds to EFIC draft Social and Environment Policy and Procedure proposals
8) NGOs critique hydropower association assessment tool
9) Canada's Bill C-300 with extractive industry guidelines narrowly defeated in House of Commons
10) EFIC goes underground in West Africa
November 2010
1) Argentina to renegotiate Paris Club debt without IMF presence
2) UN asks ECAs to ensure support for agro-land acquisition respects farmers' rights
3) Etihad CEO flays western airlines on export credit
4) Nord Stream Taps Three Banks as Advisers for 2.5 Billion Euros of Loans
5) Berne Union members expect business volumes to return to pre-crisis levels in 2010
6) Euromoney Trading produces ECA Review €279, 33 pages
7) Japanese and Dutch ECAs publish Category A EIA information
8) ECAs strive to meet new demand
December 2010
1) Boeing, Airbus Export Financing to Be Costlier Under OECD ECA Proposal
2) EU Approves One-Year Extension Of Some Export Credit Insurance Schemes
3) China's 2010 export credit insurance may rank world first
4) European Parliamentary Committee votes to address ECA flaws
5) French ECA guarantees Jaitapur nuclear project
6) South Africa unveils Cuba export credit package
7) OECD's ECA Working Group publishes 2009 data and latest meeting minutes
8) Brazil charges German companies and staff for environmental crimes in Hermes guaranteed project