Index for 2024

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

November 2024

  • Does Italian ECA stifle Mozambique LNG atrocities?
  • Europe and U.S. push for oil-funding ECA curbs deal to outlast Trump
  • U.S. Misses the Mark on ECA Fossil Fuel Finance Agreement
  • 'The finance Cop’ delivers a fragile climate pledge, but leaves questions unanswered
  • China announces new ECA policy measures to protect its exports from Trump's new tariff threat
  • Colombia Races for US Climate Funds But Has China as Back Up
  • Sinosure reportedly begins refusing to insure exports to Russia
  • Landmark Minerals Security Partnership Finance Network Established for Critical Minerals Projects
  • UKEF offers new guarantee to help British firms secure international contracts
  • Saudi Neom Gets $3 Billion Loan Guarantee From Sace
  • UKEF signs £4bn air defence deal with Poland
  • Ex-Im Bank’s $2.5 billion Angola loan funds Chinese-tied firms, not American jobs
  • Troilus Gold brings potential funding from credit agencies to $1.3 billion

October 2024

  • 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?

September 2024

  • Western nations join forces to break China’s grip on critical minerals
  • Rich Nations Running Out of Time to Curb Oil and Gas Funding
  • Critical Minerals Security Partnership may not be enough for Australia
  • Deutsche Bank & ECAs finance $3.1 billion Indonesian fossil fuel project
  • Switzerland still handing out fossil fuel finance like candy
  • US Ex-Im Bank Eyes Investment in Another Mozambique LNG Project
  • Shifting and unlocking trillions for a just energy transition
  • Rich countries could raise $5tn of climate finance a year, study says
  • UK Steps Up Export Deals to French-Speaking Africa as has China
  • The real effects of trade financing by export credit agencies
  • Ukranian ECA insures first investment loan against war risks
  • UKEF pushes Titanic builder Harland & Wolff into administration
  • AGA seeks to raise USD 6.5bn for major Aussie green ammonia project
  • Britain plans to reopen Cuba export credit coverage
  • Russian ECA decries fake news re Bangladesh nuclear power plant embezzlement
  • India's RIL secures over $7 billion in offshore finance
  • UK & Polish ECAs target green exports with €249 million for Turkish solar project

August 2024

  • Canada's EDC ‘nursing losses’ after lending $1bn to Thames Water
  • Out With the Old, Slow With the New
  • Biden Urged to Make EXIM Stop Fueling Climate Crisis
  • Canada's EDC nursing steep losses from billions loaned to Thames Water
  • Ukraine's State Property Fund Plans ECA War Risk insurance
  • EU launches export credit facility for Ukraine
  • Arab oil and gas sector attracted investments worth $406bn over 22 years
  • Export credit agencies roar back in Africa
  • UKEF reveals £8.8bn government support for UK firms in 2023/24
  • The Role of Export Finance in Global Shipping’s Sustainable Growth
  • Cesce backs green loan for Iberdrola renewable expansion
  • UKEF to finance Cambodia’s infra for exports
  • EXIM Board approves landmark $1.6 billion solar energy and water project in rural Angola

July 2024

  • Campaigners Increasingly Targeting Financial Backers with Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Funders
  • EDC undermines climate commitments yet again with massive loan renewal for Enbridge
  • Swiss ECA faces backlash after climate policy U-turn
  • UAE’s ALTÉRRA invests in fund backing fossil gas despite “climate solutions” pledge
  • US Congress Examines Role of EXIM Amid Intensifying Economic Competition with China
  • USEXIM President Testifies on U.S.-China Economic Competition
  • US Law Firm Claims Chinese ECA Sinosure pursues overseas importers to pay off unpaid debts
  • Five-yr extension expected for Indian export credit scheme
  • Spanish ECA supports Siemens Gamesa $1.3 bln guarantee package
  • JBIC signs credit line of up to US$3 billion for Adnoc
  • Ukraine and UK sign defence export finance and nuclear supply deals

June 2024

  • Deal to limit ECA oil and gas funding abroad hinges on US
  • U.S. EXIM Funding Fossil Fuels Abroad
  • U.S. EXIM Bank in an Age of Great Power Competition
  • Export credit and West vs Chinese strategic minerals
  • EU adopts sanctions against Russia including billions of ECA support for Ukraine
  • World Bank: How can we unlock infrastructure finance at scale for developing countries?
  • UKEF's implementation of the Equator Principles (1 April 2023 to 31 December 2023)
  • Nigerian Civil societies urge China to rescind proposed East African crude pipeline project
  • QatarEnergy, Chevron Phillips Secure $4.4 Bln Financing for Petrochemicals Project
  • SACE LAUNCHES US$1.3 BILLION INVESTMENT PACKAGE FOR VIETNAM
  • Brazil’s Petrobras tightens ties with Chinese banks and Sinosure
  • JBIC fires up US$1bn loan for Australian LNG project
  • SACE EUR 100mln Push Facility provided to Eastern & Southern African Trade & Development Bank
  • India mulls overhaul of trade finance market
  • SMEs should make more use of UKEF's little-known GEF
  • UK Export Finance unveils ambitious new target for SME support

May 2024

  • End Polluter Welfare Act Supported by Over 300 US Organizations
  • US EXIM enters the battle against Chinese boycott of Lithuania
  • Audit slams US EXIM for weak performance in Africa
  • Bumper year for trade credit insurance, but claims rising
  • K-SURE to provide $1.3 bn credit for Saudi petrochemical project
  • Scottish firms win in 1st UKEF deal for oil & gas de-re?-commissioning
  • Vietnam's says HSBC to arrange funds for $1.49 bln refinery project
  • World Bank Group, NEXI to Bolster Investments in Developing Countries
  • HKECIC signs Guangdong pact with Sinosure
  • Etihad Credit Insurance records 21-fold growth

April 2024

  • ECAs continue to favour fossil fuels over clean energy
  • EU ECA fossil fuel phase-out tracker reveals Member States are lagging commitment to Paris Agreement goals in export credit policies
  • Public Enemies: Assessing MDB & G20 IFIs energy finance
  • JIBC provides US$3.3 billion to harmful Asian LNG projects
  • How the U.S. Can Still Meet its Global Climate Finance Pledges
  • China invites Uganda for talks on crude oil pipeline project financing
  • ECAs continue to debate fate of Mozambique LNG project
  • High-Level EU Conference: 'Net-Zero by 2050: The Role of Export Finance'
  • Meeting Statement - Heads of G7 ECAs
  • U.S. EXIM Bank approves 'Make More in America' initiative to boost manufacturing
  • Proposed EXIM (Export-Import Bank) Reforms
  • Trafigura bags US$560mn ECA-backed deal to supply gas to Japan
  • REC Ltd Secures Japanese Green Loan from Italy's SACE
  • ECAs & Aviation Finance & Leasing: Global overview
  • Gaza/Red Sea crisis: Export credit availability called to limit impact on Indian exports
  • International lawyers advise ECA and international lenders in Latin American finance
  • Geopolitical Tensions might Threaten India's Export Growth, FIEO Urges Government Action
  • Ukranian ECA helped exporting companies raise UAH 99.8 mln
  • China denounces U.S. shipbuilding probe as politically motivated 'mistake'

March 2024

  • Exim Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project Despite Biden’s Climate Commitments.
  • Fury Over $500 Million US Export-Import Bank Loan to Bahrain 'Climate Bomb'
  • No role for export credits in the EU’s development finance
  • First-of-its-kind EU export credit facility to target Ukraine rebuild
  • European Commission: NET-ZERO BY 2050 THE ROLE OF EXPORT FINANCE
  • US & EU differ over the future of fossil fuel subsidies in OECD talks
  • Human rights & environmental destruction in Dutch Atradius DSB insured dredging projects
  • UKEFsigns cooperation agreement with U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office
  • Total ECA Funders Weigh Mozambique Restart After 3 Year Halt
  • Standard Chartered Faces Complaint for Financing Philippine Coal Plants
  • Oil Trader Gunvor to Pay More Than $660 Million to Resolve Bribe Cases
  • Ineos Receives UKEF Backing for Europe's Largest Petrochemical Plant
  • Dynasty Gold Used Slave Labor in China, Canada Watchdog Says
  • Pentagon pitched EXIM Australian nickel investment
  • Korean ECA to provide $187bn in support to bolster exports
  • EXIM on International Women’s Day 2024
  • Ankura business consultants' turning points for EXIM

February 2024

  • Joe Biden should end EXIM support for overseas oil and gas projects
  • EXIM Climate Advisors Quit Over Fossil Fuel Plans
  • Italian and Japanese ECAs allocate billions for Ukraine
  • ECAs pile in on European battery gigafactories facility
  • Africa’s debt dilemma: The role of ECAs and new strategies
  • SACE plans to back $1.6 billion in debt to Saudi Arabia
  • The real effects of trade financing by ECAs
  • Financing uncertainty clouds South Korean ECA push for massive arms deals
  • Tanzania's Precision Air Faces Legal Action Over $26 Million ATR 42 Debt to EDC
  • India directs ECGC to maintain moratorium on insurance rates for exporters

January 2024

  • Biden Administration Faces Pushback on Another Gas Project, This Time Overseas
  • JBIC financing for two gas power projects in Mexico would violate the G7 agreement
  • Amid Corruption Charges, Groups Demand EXIM Halt Payments to Trafigura
  • ECAs support €1.08 billion green loans for Cadeler
  • UKEF underwrites financing for another section of Turkish high speed rail network
  • Red Sea crisis: Indian shipping costs and times and export credit premiums up
  • Brodies Guides On War Risk Insurance For Ukrainian Exports
  • H2 Green Steel Boden: Complex financing includes Euler Hermes
  • Swedish “Green” Steel Plant Secures $7 Billion in Financing
  • Northvolt gets $5bn green loan for European EV push
  • Petroperú Desperate for Cash Loses $500M SACE Loan Guarantee
  • How to Deal with Sinosure as an Importer
  • European Union readies €300mn ECA pilot
  • UKEF: Taxpayers underwrite French contractor’s Saudi project
  • African tri-nation transport project to start Phase II
  • Belgian ECA Credendo helps expansion of Montevideo Port to Boost Uruguay's Foreign Trade
  • FLASH: US Exim readies for US$2bn domestic financing boom