(OECD, Paris, 27 March 2019) With the adoption of the revised Recommendation of the Council on Bribery and Officially Supported Export Credits (OECD/...
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2019/03/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 March 2019) Excluded from many projects in countries under IMF bailout programmes, UK exporters are calling for a trade and aid link in African infrastructure and a rewrite of OECD guidelines that bind export credit agencies. The support is good but UK exporters...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
(National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, 8 March 2019) Securing a level playing field internationally [i.e. matching corporate subsidies] is vital to manufacturers in the United States, which already export about half their production, supporting millions of workers across...
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2019/03/30
Country: China
(The East African, Nairobi, 6 March 2019) China will host its second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum later this year, in its push to link the country by sea and land through an infrastructure network with Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The initiative launched by President Xi in...
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2019/03/30
Issue: End Coal Financing
(Thomson Reuters Foundation, London, 1 March 2019) A torrent of banks and other financiers are shifting their money out of coal as investment risks in it grow. We have only 12 years left to save the planet from devastating climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
Business Wire, Washington, 28 March 2019) Leaders of government, business, and academia will address the 2019 Annual Conference of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) that held on Thursday and Friday, March 28-29, 2019, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The...
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2019/03/30
Issue: European Union
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 March 2019) Europe to exempt export credits from banks’ leverage ratios have been received positively, but is this good news for all export finance banks? Last month, EU ambassadors endorsed the capital requirements regulation adjustment package, including an...
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2019/03/30
Country: Canada, South Africa
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 26 March 2019) Senior federal officials sought to warn Canada’s export agency that it had suffered “significant” risk to its reputation because of its US$41-million loan to the controversial Gupta brothers who were at the heart of a South African corruption scandal,...
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2019/03/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 5 March 2019) A major oil and gas company wants Australian taxpayer money spent on overseas energy projects, stoking fears that a Morrison government plan to boost development in the Pacific is a smokescreen for fossil fuel investment. A government amendment to...
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2019/03/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Large Dams
(Standard Media, Nairobi, 7 March 2019) The Government of Kenya paid Sh10 billion to insure the loans taken for construction of the controversial Arror and Kimwarer dams, but industry experts argue the cost should not have exceeded Sh1 billion. Italian insurer SACE was paid Sh11.1 billion [94.2...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
Reuters, Geneva/Paris, 28 March 2019) The World Trade Organization said on Thursday the United States had ignored its request to halt a subsidized tax break for Boeing Co in its main...
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2019/02/28
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 12 February 2019) In January Export Development Canada (EDC) released a new climate change policy. The policy commits EDC to further limit its coal-related investments and increase its support for clean technologies. It does not, however, put in place a clear path to...
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2019/02/28
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Export Import Bank of Korea, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Manama, 26 February 2019) Bahrain is talking to U.S. oil companies with shale oil expertise about developing a huge oil and gas field discovered last year, and hopes to have an interested company by the end of the year. Oil Minister Al Khalifa also said state-run Bahrain Petroleum...
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2019/02/27
Country: Finland
ECAs: Finnvera
(Global News Wire, Helsinki, 26 February 2019) Demand for export credits has increased in recent years. At the same time, our need for funding has increased and, in 2018, a total of EUR 2.4 billion was acquired from the capital market. To balance funding and asset management, Finnvera prepaid...
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2019/02/27
Country: France, Japan, Turkey
ECAs: COFACE, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Nuclear
(Daily Sabah, Istanbul, 25 February 2019) Turkey's second nuclear power plant to be built in Sinop under a Japanese-French partnership, will make a breakthrough by obtaining a ground license this year. The plant, which will have an installed capacity of 4,480 megawatts (MW) and consist of four...
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