(Air Transport World, Arlington, 22 May 2017) Airbus has established a new independent compliance review panel (ICRP) to ensure “irreproachable” behavior, following allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption in its civil aviation business. The move follows an investigation by the UK Serious...
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2017/05/31
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
2017/05/31
Issue: Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, OECD
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(World Coal, Surrey, 19 May 2017) Development finance is essential to help the advancement and empowerment of low and middle income economies. But, past announcements by multilateral development banks restricting finance for greenfield coal plants cast doubts on future funding. This approach to...
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2017/05/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
(National Public Radio Newsworks, Delaware, 16 May 2017) Republicans who want to disband the Export-Import Bank of the United States were heartened during the presidential campaign when candidate Donald Trump indicated he would kill it if he were elected president. Now, President Trump said he...
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2017/05/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
(Sputnik News, Washington, 15 May 2017) Trade finance to Cuba is not expected in the near future because of the quantity of work that needs to be completed, including the country's payments due to export credit agencies, US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) Business Development Officer Kate Bishop...
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2017/05/30
Country: Australia, India
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, End Coal Financing
(National Herald, New Delhi, 9 May 2017) Australia's Market Forces environmental finance group has...
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2017/05/30
ECAs: SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(The Star, Nairobi, 8 May 017) Kenya's shareholding in African Trade Insurance Agency has been marginally diluted following entry of four new investors, the largely political risk and investment guarantee firm has said. Chief executive George Otieno said Kenya's stake has dropped to about 12...
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2017/05/30
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(eTurbo News, Hawaii, 11 May 2017) A recent high-profile example of Delta’s advocacy agility was its position on export credit financing and reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank (EXIM). Delta opposed it before it supported it. In the beginning, Delta was a leading voice opposing...
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2017/05/30
Country: China
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 9 May 2017) China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) will provide export insurance for Chinese construction and production investments in Iran. According to a recently signed Meorandum of Understanding, the Chinese export credit agency will insure...
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2017/05/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Reuters, Paris, 4 May 2017) Iran is in talks with Britain's export credit agency to facilitate the financing of aircraft sales to state airline IranAir as part of its pact with world powers to lift sanctions over its nuclear program, a senior Iranian official said. IranAir's plan to buy more...
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2017/05/30
Country: Turkey
Issue: Arms Trade
(Defense News, Ankara, 3 May 2017) Turkey’s defense and procurement officials are expecting to finalize a large defense export contract with Saudi Arabia, but its contents will be kept top secret. Turkish Defence Minister Fikri Isik has said the defense export contract with Saudi Arabia will be...
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2017/05/30
Country: Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: End Coal Financing, OECD
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(Friends of the Earth Japan, Tokyo, 24 May 2017) On May 24, 2017, two Indonesian community representatives affected by the JIBC supported Cirebon Coal-fired Power Plant Project in West Java arrived in Japan and handed their objections to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) with...
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2017/04/27
Country: Canada, India
ECAs: Export Development Corporation
(Business Wire, Mumbai, 2 April 2017) Export Development Canada today announced its new and first global branch outside of Canada, in Singapore. “EDC’s new branch can process transactions in real time for Indian companies, eliminating the previous 12 hour delay to connect back to our financing...
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2017/04/27
Country: India
Issue: End Coal Financing
(BankTrack, Nijmegen, 11 April 2017) Ex-Im Bank of India’s confirmation today that it is providing a $1.6 billion loan to Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company (BIFPCL) for development of the Rampal coal plant in Bangladesh has been strongly criticised by BankTrack. Johan Frijns, director...
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2017/04/27
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
(Trade Arabia, Manama, 16 April 017) Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), a leading aluminium smelter, has secured commitments of about $700 million from Export Credit Agency (ECA) supported facilities to finance Line 6 Expansion project. The facilities are made-up of a dual tranche of c. $310 million and...
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2017/04/27
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Kyiv Post, Moscow, 21 April 2017) The German and Swedish export credit agencies have decided to take part in the Yamal LNG project, Novatek CEO Leonid Mikhelson said during the annual general meeting of shareholders. The cost of the project is $27 billion. Yamal LNG has signed credit...
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