(Hindu Business Line, NewDelhi, 20 December 2015) The World Trade Organisation’s Ministerial in Nairobi failed to deliver anything concrete for India and other developing countries in the areas of food security and farmer protection. Worse, it has saddled them with the burden of doing away with...
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2015/12/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
(The Citizen, Johanesburg, 3 December 2015) Transnet and China Export Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) on Wednesday agreed to a $2,5 billion funding guarantee in a ceremony attended by South African President Jacob Zuma and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, who is on a State visit to...
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2015/12/31
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 17 December 2015) On 8 June 2015 Both ENDS – in conjunction with and on behalf of Associação Fórum Suape Espaço Socioambiental, Conectas Direitos Humanos and Colônia de Pescadores do Município do Cabo de Santo Agostinho – notified the Dutch National Contact Point of a...
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2015/12/31
Country: China
Issue: Debt
(Post News, Zambia, 18 December 2015) The Zambian government is under pressure to borrow over US$642 million to pay Chinese lenders as overdue down payment for loans worth US$3 billion. According to a Cabinet memorandum, Zambia has contracted US$3,012,466,199 in concessional and non-...
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2015/12/31
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(Tehran Times, Tehran, 1 December 2015) Iran and Italy have agreed to open a $5-billion credit line, in a bid to pave the way for optimal banking and economic ties between the two countries once sanctions against the Islamic Republic are lifted. The credit line is projected to take effect one...
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2015/12/31
(This Day Live, Lagos, 19 December 2015) Given that oil remains the basis upon which Nigeria's national budget is benchmarked, the downturn opens the country up to harsh vulnerabilities. Since this reality was fairly foreseen and foretold by development analysts it rightly ought not to have met...
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2015/12/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Wall Street Journal, Washington, 9 December 2015) Legislation signed by President Barack Obama on Friday resurrected the U.S. Export-Import Bank and ended a five-month lapse that revealed far stronger bipartisan backing for the agency than the pitched battle to shut it down suggested. The...
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2015/12/31
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(Ansamed, Rome, 11 December 2015) The Italian export credit agency SACE has announced five billion euros in operations being assessed to support Italian export and firms in Egypt, one of the most strategic markets for the country in the Mediterranean. SACE has in Egypt a portfolio of insured...
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2015/12/31
Country: Russia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Your Oil & Gas News, Aberdeen, 22 December 2015) Sovcomflot Group and Sberbank CIB have signed a 14-year $340 million credit facility agreement to finance the construction of three Arctic shuttle tankers for the Novy Port project (project operator: Gazprom Neft). Commenting on the...
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2015/12/31
Country: Netherlands
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, December 2015) In November 2013, Both ENDS published a study on Atradius DSB’s support for complex export transactions that were structured via tax havens, and thus its potential underwriting of aggressive tax avoidance positions that corrode the tax sovereignty of...
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ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption
Member: Both ENDS
2015/12/31
Country: Russia
(Sputnik News, Tehran, 23 December 2015) Russia plans to provide Iran with $2.2 billion in state export credit in 2016 as part of a $5 billion loan plan, Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Thursday.
2015/12/31
Country: India
Issue: OECD
(India Times, New Delhi, 27 December 2015) The government has asked the Reserve Bank of India to reconsider its external commercial borrowing (ECB) norms to allow foreign currency debt to infrastructure sector for medium term also. Sources said Transport and Highways Secretary Chhibber has...
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2015/12/31
Issue: Debt
(Post News, Zambia, 15 December 2015) According to the Paris Club, representatives of the Group of Creditors of Cuba and of the Government of the Republic of Cuba met from December 10-12 and on Saturday came up with an arrangement to clear US$2.6 billion of debt in arrears due to the Group of...
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2015/12/31
Issue: Climate Change
(Environmental Finance, London, 1 December 2015) The pledge of $100 billion by 2020 (from developed to developing countries) may be a nice round number for politicians to reference but it is, in fact, an arbitrary figure that is grounded in political, not scientific, analysis. And it is...
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2015/12/31
Country: China
(Space News, Paris, 28 December 2015) The Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) said its Tupac Katari (TKSAT-1) telecommunications satellite is expected to generate $2 million in monthly revenue in 2016 and to reach a fill rate in the coming years that could justify a second satellite. ABE did not...
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