What's New for October 2024

"What's New!" is a periodic update to keep you informed of the latest on the ECA Watch website. What's New! features a wide range of materials related to the reform of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) including NGO publications and releases, news articles, commentaries and announcements about the policies and practices of ECAs and ECA-financed projects world-wide.

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  • ECAs prepare to lock horns over fossil fuel financing
  • Cutting Fossil Fuel Financing
  • Oxfam calls for a green overhaul of the US Export-Import Bank
  • Petrochemical Plant Wins EXIM Loan Despite Biden Climate Vow
  • US Defense Dept Strategic Capital "arsenal"
  • Longer payment schedules adding to liquidity woes of India's exporters
  • UK approves use of export finance to source critical minerals
  • US accelerates play for Africa’s minerals
  • NGOs urge banks & China to refuse support for Ugandan oil projects
  • Uganda finally signs deal to start building 1,700km railway, dumping China
  • Hyundai gets $1.35B in export financing for Georgia EV facility
  • European ECAs reach out to Indian companies, banks
  • What did Cuba do with the €1.2 billion offered by Russia to build thermoelectric plants?

Volume 23, Issue 12

January 2025

  • Sinosure in China’s overseas finance and the evolving international response

December 2024

  • South Korea and Turkey block landmark OECD deal to end fossil fuel subsidies
  • COP29 outcomes: balancing progress and challenges on the road to climate action
  • Before Trump takeover France's Total wants USEXIM to back its Mozambique gas export plan
  • Revisiting the rulebook: Export finance roundtable
  • Growth in the Value of Securing Trade, Finance and Investments in the Arab Region
  • Algeria aims to become key player in trade insurance in Africa and Arab-Muslim world
  • Africa Investment Forum Market Days 2024: Global Risk leaders gather to unlock Africa's investment potential
  • Sri Lanka ECA faces irregularities, alleged corruption
  • US Sanctions on Gazprombank (Russian ECA?) Imperil Uzbek Copper Mine Expansion
  • Polish nuclear power plant receives €22bn financial backing from US, French & Canadian ECAs
  • ICIEC Awarded “Insurance Adviser of the Year – Africa” for Advancing Sustainable Development
  • AfDB & SACE sign $6b investment deal