Publications Index

(Bloomberg, Washington, 17 June 2015) General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt threatened to move U.S. jobs overseas if Congress doesn’t reauthorize the Export-Import Bank’s charter, which expires at the end of June. “We’re not going to lose this business,” Immelt said...

(Al-Monitor, Washington, 11 June 2015) Companies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates together pulled in about $12 billion in trade financing over the past five years — 8.5% of the $141 billion global total — to help pay for nuclear reactors, industrial power generators and new fleets...

(The Independent, London, 18 June 2015) Britain has guaranteed more than £130m in loans for repressive governments to spend on arms in the last year, new figures show. Indonesia already owes Britain £246m from historic loans, however this year the UK government has guaranteed a further £132m of...

(TFX, London, 12 June 2015) Despite the current sanctions environment, an anonymous industry poll at the recent TXF ECA Finance conference in Paris, suggested 25% of the audience had completed an ECA-backed transaction into Russia in 2015. The poll, which had close to three hundred respondents...

(Global Trade Review, Rome, 5 June 2015) Italian export credit agency Sace has guaranteed a line of credit worth US$200mn for Angolan national oil company Sonangol, GTR is able to confirm.The goal is to increase the export of goods and services between Italian companies active...

In two separate news items this month, KfW IPEX-Bank of Germany brags about financing the world's largest, non-polluting clipper ship along with...

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Brussels, 12 June 2015) Talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidies ended in stalemate as Japan, the biggest user of the aid, led calls for more time in defiance of this week's G7 pledge on fossil fuel subsidies, sources said. The Paris-based Organization for...