Index for 2013

German human rights organizations sue Ministry of Economics over ECA transparency
Boeing sees export credits waning as aircraft funding source
US Export-Import Bank Board Adopts Revised Environmental Guidelines to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Why US Export-Import Bank Backs Australian Billionaire Heiress Gina Rinehart
Aman Union Launches Export Credit Database
Russian VTB Bank boosts trade and export finance business
Novel structure for Chinese export credit bond

Hold The Applause on UK Coal Financing Announcement
Do Swedish ECAs support exports at the expense of human rights?
Still exporting destruction: A civil society assessment of Export Credit Agencies’ compliance with EU Regulation (PE-CONS 46/11)
Hold the applause on UK no-coal finance announcement
Do Swedish ECAs support exports at the expense of human rights?
US Caterpillar jobs bouyed by Australian Roy Hill iron mine and US Ex-Im
Aircraft orders focus attention on export credit
Australian ECA EFIC annual report shows rising loans
Human rights Institutes concerned about OECD Common Approaches
Sri Lanka foreign export credits led by China
UK Export Finance and Korea

CSOs request ECAs discontinue financing of coal projects
Civil Society groups request ECAs discontinue financing of coal projects
European Parliament approves anti-corruption and human rights report
Ex-Im Bank Supports Export of U.S. Aircraft for Food Security in Brazil
Vnesheconombank and the Export-Import Bank of China Sign Framework Agreement
Jubilee Australia calls for review of Australian ECA links to Leighton Holdings bribery scandal
OECD Working Party on Export Credits Consultation with Civil Society
Aircraft-backed bonds grow as ECA and commercial bank finance slows
Atradius Dutch State Business expands Dutch export financing pool to non-OECD banks
Berne Union elects new officers
German Seminar on OECD Common Approaches - 11 November 2013 - Berlin

US Ex-Im and OPIC brace for shutdown
Are US Senators regretting Ex-Im vote?
POTATOMATION: Jubilee Australia brings its concerns about the ECA-backed PNG LNG project to the Sydney Fringe Festival
US and French ECAs Keep Spigots Open for Space Ventures
OECD 2012 ECA Bribery Survey Responses Now Available
European ECAs to Fund Russian Superjet Project
BNDES president says Cuba and Angola have requested confidentiality in financing contracts
NEXIM Bank - Repositioning for Nigeria's Non-Oil Exports
Miami Businesswoman Sentenced In US Export-Import Bank Fraud
Aureus Mining Given US$88 Million South African ECA Support
Turkish Export Credit Bank plans to give $300 million credit facility to Pakistan
Nigeria seeks NEXIMs support on ECOWAS trade
U.S. Export-Import Bank Hindered by Budget Fight, Hochberg Says
Rinehart Record Debt Lures Even as China Slows: Australia Credit

Ex-Im Bank Halts U.S. Funding Review for Vietnam Coal Plant
Australian coal projects could be ineligible to receive Chinese ECA support
Amnesty - UK Export Finance is sacrificing human rights on the altar of foreign trade
U.K. ECA Seeks Looser Rules To Level Playing Field
Boeing Sees Aircraft-Backed Bond Issues Doubling to $30 Billion
Australia’s Rinehart clears hurdles on $10 B iron ore project
Africa: Russian Investment Needs Credit Support
Parliament Approves $200mln Capital Increase for Export Guarantee Fund of Iran
Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance Includes ECAs
US Ex-Im report grades competitiveness with other ECAs

Export-Import Bank: Additional Analysis and Information Could Better Inform Congress on Exposure, Risk, and Resources
Airliner Export Credit Feels the Political Heat
Delta Airlines wants to stop Ex-Im help on big jets
Canadian export agency might finance Nigeria’s ailing aviation sector.
Canadian Central bank's new governor brings export expertise
Islamic Development Bank unit launches sovereign sukuk credit insurance
International Activists Block Ilısu Dam Construction
Record amount of trade credit insured by Berne Union members
Australian PM Gillard Backs PNG Gas Plant
More Detailed Information about Ex-Im Bank Jobs Calculation Methodology Could Improve Transparency
Masdar and Ex-ImBank Sign MoU to Deploy U.S. Clean Technology

ECA Watch launches new website
When will Coface and Société Générale follow BNP & HypoVereinsbank and withdraw from Kaliningrad nuclear plant?
NGOs warn banks not to further finance PNG LNG project
Jubilee Australia Urges 'Don't ignore Productivity Commission recommendations for ECA reform'
Chinese Government Guidelines for Overseas Investment
Atradius Dutch State Business and Exiar join forces to stimulate Dutch-Russian trade
Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance Includes ECAs
China: PICC issues first single short-term export credit insurance
Telefónica gets €200m from EDC for spending spree to help prop up BlackBerry
China Exim Bank to Increase Shipping Loans to $14bn in 2013

World Bank’s private sector finance arm doesn’t know environmental & social impacts of much of its portfolio
Mission reports dramatic social & environment impacts of Dutch ECA supported dredging projects in Brazil
China Asks Companies to Mind Environment When Investing Overseas
How Berlin and Beijing tilted world trade [with ECA support]
EDC immunity from scrutiny: Canada’s Access to Information Act hobbles democracy
New guidelines adopted on European short-term export-credit insurance
Nigerian ECA NEXIM and the burden of transformation
Wind projects look to export finance as new markets open
Pacific Drilling Pens Export Credit Facility for Drillship Construction

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