Centre for Aviation, Melbourne, 26 March 2014) UK Export Finance head of aerospace Gordon Welsh, speaking at the CAPA – Airline Fleet & Finance Summit 2014, stated the export credit agency will sell the last of 40 aircraft returned after 9-11 “hopefully next week”, ending 13 years as...
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2014/03/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Business Spectator, Melbourne, 21 March 2014) Gina Rinehart has secured backing from a group of global banks and export credit agencies for a new $US10 billion ($A11.0bn) iron-ore mine that can feed Asian steel demand, just as miners like BHP Billiton scale back investments amid a broad...
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2014/03/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Herald Sun, Melbourne, 18 March 2014) Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have been granted a $110 million “soft loan” from taxpayers to help expand the world’s biggest copper mine, in Chile. Australia’s export credit agency, the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, has extended the...
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2014/03/29
Issue: Corruption
(Hindu Business Line, Chennai, 5 March 2014) India's state-controlled Export Credit Guarantee Corporation that covers exporters against credit risk is closely looking at the turmoil in Ukraine to determine whether the situation calls for a risk upgrade, Though, theoretically, India stands to...
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2014/03/29
Issue: BRIC countries
(Business Standard, New Delhi, 5 March 2014) The Competition Commission has rejected allegations of unfair trade practices against Export Credit Guarantee Corp related to credit insurance...
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2014/02/28
Country: USA
Issue: Renewables
(Cape Cod Online, 26 February 2014) Cape Wind announced February 26th that a Danish credit agency has approved a $600 million loan for the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm. Speaking at the GreenPower USA Offshore Wind Conference in Boston Cape Wind CEO Gordon said that EKF, the Danish Export...
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2014/02/28
Country: Austria
ECAs: Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Issue: Large Dams, Pulp and Paper
Member: Finance & Trade Watch
(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 21 February 2014) On February 20th, the Austrian company Andritz received the “Eyesore of the Year 2013” award for its involvement in three dam projects with tremendous negative ecological and human rights impacts: Xayaburi in Laos, Belo Monte in Brazil as well as...
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2014/02/28
Country: Brazil
(fibre2fashion, Gujarat, 11 February 2014) The Brazilian Ministry of Finance has launched export credit insurance for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), including textile and apparel enterprises in the country, in order to encourage entrepreneurs to increase exports. According to a...
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2014/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Seattle Times, Washington, 6 February 2014) The U.S. government export credit agency says it's ready to provide financing for American companies exporting to former pariah nation Myanmar... The Export-Import Bank made the announcement Thursday, saying it would help improve trade flows between...
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2014/02/28
Country: India
(Business Standard, Mumbai, 20 February 2014) India's Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks with four or five export credit agencies (ECA) to raise over $1 billion (Rs 6,220 crore) in the next four months, which will give it the largest number of ECA relationships globally. This is a part of...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Friends of the Earth France, Paris 10 February 2014) Tomorrow French President Francois Hollande will meet US President Barack Obama. Last year, Mr Obama announced the end of US public financing for new coal-fired power plants overseas, he now wants other developed countries to follow suit. In...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
Friends of the Earth France has urged President Hollande and his government to end French support for coal-fired power plants via its export credit agency Coface and the various multilateral development banks in which it plays a significant role...
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2014/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Project Syndicate, Davos, 24 January 2014) There is no bailout option for the earth’s climate. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Gurria noted "Our planet is warming dangerously. And, as the 2013 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes clear, our...
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2014/02/06
Member: FERN
November 14, 2013
ECA Watch has prepared this ‘shadow report’ — with the support of other civil society groups — in order to assess current ECA practice in relation to issues such as transparency, public...
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2014/01/31
(Indian Express, 27 January, Mumbai) At a time when India is leaving no stones unturned to boost exports and bring down current account deficit, Essar Steel is unable to execute a $6 billion steel products export deal as the domestic general insurers are reluctant to provide cover to the deal....
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