Index for 2019

December 2019

  • Controversy over Chinese subsidies for Huawei
  • US Ex-Im Bank gets seven-year extension
  • European Parliament asks Member states to end ECA support for fossil fuel projects
  • Sweden proposes climate and export strategy which includes ban on ECA support for fossil fuel exploration and extraction
  • Insurers drop coal in droves to “avoid climate breakdown”
  • Korean ECA to Extend $375 Mil. to Daewoo E&C’s LNG Plant Project in Nigeria
  • Gaslog LNG carrier announces $1.05 billion ECA backed debt
  • Saudi Arabia looks for ECA finance to reduce deficits
  • UAE, Egypt to strengthen trade relations via ECA MoU
  • Central Bank of Egypt launches ECA
  • JBIC joins $1.3 billion financing for Bangladesh urea industries
  • Chubb takes stake in ATI to boost African trade

November 2019

  • France targets fracking & flaring with ECA guarantee overhaul
  • UAE running secret prison in French ECA supported LNG facility in Yemen
  • The ECA fossil elephant in the Dutch room
  • 20% of Dominican Republic territory at risk from fossil fuel auction
  • AfDB approves $400m loan for Mozambique LNG facility
  • EU Council to host business and human rights conference
  • Dutch Ship Firm Kept Fees Secret
  • Newt Gingrich: EXIM the key to beating China's economic-military machine
  • Nigeria's Ajaokuta Steel completion to receive Russian ECA support
  • World Bank warns of Kenyan [ECA] debt distress
  • EU takes Greece off short-term export credit ‘blacklist’
  • UK export credit agency to provide US$303m in support of Formosa II
  • EX-IM signs new co-financing pact with Japanese rival NEXI
  • UK judge rules EDC can proceed with sale of Gupta jet

October 2019

  • Climate activists spray UKEF with fake blood
  • Newt Gingrich: EXIM as a political tool against China
  • Putin is resetting Russia’s Africa agenda to counter the US and China
  • SINOSURE reports steady business growth
  • Irish businesses 'will need €1.5bn' to prevent job losses if there is a no-deal Brexit
  • Australia drops in defence export rankings
  • Korea should stop funding coal power in Indonesia
  • What is the remit of the ICC Global Export Finance Committee
  • EXIM provides loan for natural gas project in Mozambique
  • EXIM signs MoU with Iraq
  • Why finance and insurance is a key barrier to SMEs that want to export

September 2019

  • EXIM finances massive LNG project that will cause climate chaos
  • UK Tory donor gets UKEF backing despite major fraud investigation
  • Paltry Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by ECAs in 2013-17
  • $1.5 trillion global trade finance gap affecting SDG targets
  • 2017 Report to the U.S. Congress on Global Export Credit Competition
  • Export-Import Bank eyes expanded role with LNG sector
  • Will ECAs and Asian banks join the movement to decarbonise shipping
  • OeKB readies debut SRI bond
  • Iridium lands seven-year, $738.5 million Defense Department contract
  • Austrade and Export Finance Australia help defence companies go global
  • Afreximbank okays $500m for Nigerian manufacturers
  • Abu Dhabi's ADFD launches ECA
  • Iran's ECA Covers $1b Exports in 5 Months
  • India, Russia identify new prospects for ECA led cooperation

August 2019

  • Export Development Canada: Out from the shadows
  • Civil society groups call for an accountability mechanism for the Equator Principles
  • US Exim: A decade-long renewal or axe it entirely?
  • US Export-Import Bank Hopes to Finance US$5 B Mozambique LNG project
  • South Africa: European governments ‘must pay back the arms deal money’
  • Tiny Timor-Leste Needs Gas and China's All Too Eager to Help
  • Russian Export Center to support Belarus' export to third countries
  • Bauxite exports from Guinea to UAE begin with ECA support
  • KfW IPEX-Bank arranges €2.6bn financing for Dream Cruises newbuilds
  • China Everbright invites TDB to co-manage $1bn energy fund
  • Etihad Credit Insurance inks MoU with South Africa’s export credit agency
  • Iran's Private Firms Want Stronger Export Credit Agency
  • African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) signs MoUs with Japanese banks and NEXI

July 2019

  • £7.8bn of UK foreign aid and export credit spent on fossil fuel projects
  • Chinese ECA underwrites US$46 bln Chinese firms' businesses in Africa
  • UAE ECA and Italy partner with Chinese financial institutions to boost trade
  • 'Hidden debts’ reveal risks of China’s lending spree
  • Behind Russia’s growing influence in Africa
  • Federal review of EDC finds inadequate disclosure practices
  • EDC lifts "closed" status on Saudi Arabia-related business
  • EDC claims review clears them of SNC-Lavelin transaction wrongdoing
  • As Brexit Looms, UK Doubles ECA Credit To Nigeria
  • The Poseidon Princples: Will They Affect ECAs?
  • U.S. Senate targets Ex-Im support for Saudi nuclear technology
  • Foreign beer lovers get tanked with EXIM assistance

June 2019

  • MPs make unprecedented call for end to UKEF overseas fossil fuel support
  • Despite climate pledges, G20 coal subsidies rise
  • See no evil: How EDC is bankrolling companies accused of bid-rigging, graft and human-rights violation
  • Chinese Banks and ECAs Court African Governments
  • Europe’s German-speaking ECAs ink collaboration pact
  • Japanese, US & Australian ECAs begin own 'Belt and Road' in South Pacific
  • Waters backs down in Ex-Im fight after internal struggle
  • U.S. lags in export financing arms race fueled by China: EXIM report
  • Kenyan court blocks Chinese ECA backed power plant on environment grounds
  • Norwegan ECA blacklists shipbuilders over human rights abuses
  • Banks with a combined $100bn shipping portfolio stimulate green change
  • Public and targeted consultations on EU short-term ECA rules

May 2019

  • Senate Confirmation of Export-Import Bank Directors Means Billions More Dollars in Federal Fossil Fuel Financing
  • Pity the Export-Import Bank, caught between warring Republican factions
  • Liberals caught again in SNC Lavalin EDC Scandal
  • Canada strikes alliance with U.S. counterweight to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
  • Aid and UKEF funding must be coherent & recognise climate change emergency, say MPs
  • China’s export insurance giant is taking a risk on coal
  • Legal challenge mounted against Kosovo coal project
  • China, Japan and South Korea, while vowing to go green at home, promote coal abroad
  • European ECAs may loose out to Russian and/or Chinese sales of fighter jets to Malaysia
  • EXIM Should Explore Using Available Data to Identify Applicants with Delinquent Federal Debt
  • New EDC human-rights policy lacks power, say workers and watchdogs

April 2019

  • European Commission consultation on short-term export credit rules
  • SNC-Lavalin insider's bribery allegations spark EDC probe
  • German parliament approves ECA supported sale of 6 heavy frigates to Egypt
  • EFIC Reform Puts Pacific ‘Step-Up' at Risk
  • India's Jet Airways delays payments to global lenders guaranteed by ExIm
  • Riyadh aims to counter Tehran’s influence with Iraq ECA credits
  • Iran's ECA Reassures Foreign Trade Partners
  • China gives Naftogaz $1 billion ECA guarantee
  • Eskom’s black hole of debt keeps on getting bigger
  • How Gujarat fishermen won US top court ruling against global funding
  • UAE ECA ECI voted as observer member of Berne Union
  • Australian cattle exported to Sri Lanka under EFIC project dying and malnourished

March 2019

  • The smart money is jumping the sinking coal ship
  • New OECD Bribery and Export Credits Recommendation
  • NAM Urges Senate to Get Ex-Im Bank Back Up and Running
  • Levelling the playing field: UK exporters want more
  • WTO says U.S. failed to halt state tax subsidy for Boeing
  • Canadian officials tried to warn EDC of ‘significant reputational risk’ in South African deal with Gupta brothers
  • Kenya 'inflated' SACE loans insurance cost by Sh10 billion
  • Foreign energy giant wants Australia's EFIC to foot bill for fossil fuel projects
  • EU exemption on export credits: is everyone a winner?
  • East Africa: China to Host Second Belt and Road Forum
  • EX-IM Hosts 2019 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

February 2019

  • SNC-Lavalin case brings public scrutiny to hundreds of millions in EDC loans
  • Ban Ki-moon says UKEF must stop investing in fossil fuels in developing countries
  • Are ECAs liable for funding of slavery tainted enterprises?
  • With new limits on coal but none on oil and gas, EDC’s climate policy misses the mark
  • German banks & ECAs manoeuvre in Washington to temper US Russia sanction risk
  • EDC insured Suncor’s Middle East misadventures
  • Australia’s ECA eyes overseas investment with potential new mandate
  • Jaguar Land Rover seeking ECA funding after huge write-down
  • Japanese and French ECAs to finance Turkey's second nuclear plant
  • Kuwait Conference pledges billions for Iraqi reconstruction
  • Bahrain talking to U.S. oil companies about tight oil deal
  • Finnvera Group’s Board Report and Financial Statements for 2018

January 2019

  • Parliamentary inquiry into UKEF Procedures and Submissions Available online
  • Japan edges in on Belt and Road with $643m for Angolan port
  • Trans-Adriatic Pipeline completes successful €3.9 billion project financing
  • Afreximbank Lends $170 Million to Orascom for Pan-African Expansion
  • PNG leads wave of jumbo ECA project loans
  • Saudi Aramco Hiring Funding Advisers for a $5 Billion Project
  • Mozambique looks for LNG ECA financing despite market scepticism
  • Remember the Export-Import Bank
  • Extension of interest subsidy scheme to boost Indian export credits
  • NEXI insures UKEF credit for Boeing export to Colombia's Avianca
  • US Export-Import Bank reopens programs for Ukraine
  • Indonesia looks to ECA funding for aerial refuelling tanker-transports
  • Nord Stream 2 negotiating ECA loans worth 6 bln euros