(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 24 December 2014)
by: Wiert Wiertsema, Both ENDS
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras is currently involved in a corruption scandal that affects all companies it has been working with. The Dutch enterprise SBM Offshore paid bribes to Petrobras, and recently...
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2014/12/31
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption
Member: Both ENDS
2014/12/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Creditman, London, 19 December 2014) UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, has appointed David Ludlow as its new Head of international business development... Of his new challenge, Ludlow said: “I have seen how export credit agencies can play a key role in effectively...
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2014/12/31
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Moscow, 23 December 2014) Total SA (FP) and its partners will use a record 16 ice-breaking tankers to smash through floes en route to and from the Arctic’s biggest liquefied natural-gas development. They’re still looking for a way around a freeze in U.S. financing... The U.S. Export...
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2014/12/31
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(The Economist, Castel del Piano, 2 January 2015) The smaller, often family-owned manufacturers that are the backbone of the Italian economy have been hit especially hard: between 2008 and the first half of 2014, a fifth of them went bankrupt or into administration, or were voluntarily wound up...
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2014/11/28
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Paris 27 November 2014) France will eliminate export credits for energy projects in developing countries which involve coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, President Francois Hollande said on Thursday. The European Union is phasing out subsidies for domestic coal plants by 2018 in...
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2014/11/27
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Nuclear
Member: Re:Common
(RE:Common & ECA Watch Europe, Brussels/Rome, 27 November 2014) NGOs have written to Italy's Minister of Economic Development and SACE to express their deep concern about SACE's intention to issue a financial guarantee of up to 500 million Euros in favour of the controversial Enel-sponsored...
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2014/11/27
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(SpaceNews, Paris, 12 November 2014) The French government will reform its Coface export-credit agency to enable it to offer financial backing to satellite projects at the same rates as its American counterpart... Coface used to dominate export credits for satellite projects. But in the past...
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2014/11/27
Country: Canada, Italy, Japan
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Cistran Finance, Chicago, 11 June 2014) A list of 23 banks and ECAs that will be financing the construction of SOCAR’s STAR oil refinery in the Aliaga port in Turkey was announced in an official ceremony last week. The list includes the following ECAs: Export Development Canada, JBIC, NEXI,...
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2014/11/27
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Reuters, London, 28 October 2014) - Britain's export credit agency will guarantee a sukuk bond for the first time next year, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, as it seeks to boost London's position as a centre for Islamic finance... UK Export Finance (UKEF) expects to guarantee an Islamic...
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2014/11/27
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(The Telegraph, London, 25 October 2014) As more British companies begin to look overseas to tap new markets, the pressure is on George Osborne, the Chancellor, who has set a target to double the value of exports to £1 trillion by 2020, to provide greater financial support to businesses selling...
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2014/10/24
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: OECD, World Trade Organization
(Fibre2Fashion News, Ahmedabad, 2 October 2014) The United States and Brazil have agreed to settle their long-standing cotton dispute over U.S. agricultural export subsidies under the US Farm Bill and the USDA GSM-102 programme. As per the agreement, Brazil will relinquish all rights to...
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2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, USA
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 23 October 2014) On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal. The consortium includes the two main Dutch dredging companies: Royal Boskalis...
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2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Member: Both ENDS
Both ENDS, 23 October 2014
On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal[1]. The consortium...
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2014/09/23
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Business Credit Management, London, 5 September 2014) UK Export Finance, the UK’s export credit agency, is inviting partners to apply to help it deliver £3 billion of export credit loans as part of its enhanced direct lending facility. The government department, which during the last five...
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2014/09/23
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Fresh Business Thinking, London, 23 September 2014) "Commercial finance and liquidity may be readily available at the moment, but the aviation sector also needs to consider capital markets as a source of future funding," that is the message UK Export Finance’s Head of Aerospace, Gordon Welsh,...
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