(The Australian, Sydney, 11 September 2017) A ban on government-backed loans for onshore coal and resource export operations will be overturned in the “national interest” to help fund billions of dollars in projects that are threatened by the growing reluctance of the major banks to back them...
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2017/09/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Jubilee Australia
2017/09/30
Country: Japan
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 29 September 2017) NGOs have urged the Bank of Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) to reject financing for the Long Phu-1 coal plant in Vietnam. In light of its recent accreditation at the Green Climate Fund and the commitment to addressing climate change that this...
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2017/09/30
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export Development Corporation, Export-Import bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Washington Post, Washington, 28 September 2017) The Commerce Department signaled its intent to impose a 219 percent tariff on Canadian-made jetliners, claiming aircraft maker Bombardier has been unfairly propped up by the Canadian government... But critics of the decision say Boeing itself...
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2017/09/30
Country: United Kingdom
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
(Evening Standard, London, 15 September 2017) The Serious Fraud Office and French prosecutors are in close discussion over the terms of a £1 billion-plus settlement for Airbus over corruption allegations. The deal, called a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), would be the largest ever in...
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2017/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Kampala, 15 August 2017) Standard Bank Group Ltd.’s Ugandan unit plans to raise $3 billion for a crude pipeline by the second half of next year as the East African country prepares to start oil production by 2020. Companies will explore raising bank debt or loans from export credit...
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2017/09/30
Country: Germany, Turkey
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Human Rights
(Sputnik, Berlin, 3 September 2017) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that Berlin cannot stop the talks on Turkey's accession, but it would impose economic punitive measures in response to arrests of German citizens... She added that Berlin could put pressure on Ankara in terms of its...
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2017/09/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
(Forbes, 17 September 2017) Former Representative Scott Garrett is on record, as reported by Politico, as committed to supporting President Trump’s commitment to having a “‘functional’ export credit agency” while seeing Ex-Im, which provides trade financing to American exporters, "reformed and...
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2017/09/30
Country: Austria
ECAs: Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 23 September 2017) In what were the first finance deals clinched with cautious European banks after the implementation of the nuclear accord provided sanctions relief in January 2016, Iran signed two agreements worth a total of €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) with...
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2017/08/30
Country: Iran, Italy, Sweden, USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Aircraft, BRIC countries, Nuclear
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 14 August 2017) Trade with Italy is being restored slower than expected following the removal of international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, reads an opinion piece written by Iranian co-chair of Iran-Italy Chamber of Commerce in the news portal of...
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2017/08/30
Issue: BRIC countries
(African Business Magazine, London, 4 August 2017) Nigeria's Dangote Industries conglomerate has announced massive plans to expand into oil refining as well as large-scale agro processing with financing from local banks and the Central Bank of Nigeria providing working capital finance and own...
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2017/08/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: OECD, Transparency
(Manufacturing & Engineeing Magazine, London, 3 August 2017) UK Export Finance, or UKEF, the Government and UK export credit agency has released a report for their...
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2017/08/30
Country: Canada, South Africa
ECAs: Export Development Corporation
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption, Transparency
(Globe & Mail, Johannesburg, 3 August 2017) The Canadian government's export agency gave $41-million (U.S.) in financing to help Bombardier Inc. sell a luxury jet to the controversial tycoons at the heart of a South African scandal over alleged high-level corruption, leaked e-mails show....
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2017/08/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
(Politico, Washington, 2 August 2017) President Donald Trump is giving former Rep. Scott Garrett a chance to save his nomination to lead the Export-Import Bank just weeks after the president privately questioned the appointment amid intense pushback from business groups. The New Jersey...
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2017/08/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade
(GAO, Washington, 29 August 2017) Every year, the Government Aaccountability Office (GAO) reports on the Export-Import Bank, which helps finance U.S. companies' exports. The Bank may not finance defense goods and services, but it can finance exports that have both civilian and military uses (...
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2017/08/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Actuary, London, 23 August 2017) Some 99.4% of the energy support given to foreign countries between 2010 and 2014 by the government department UK Export finance (UKEF) went towards fossil fuel projects, according to new research. This is done through helping UK firms invest overseas by...
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