(TFX News, London, 16 October 2015) Sullivan & Worcester's Mark Norris and UK Export Finance's Margaret Eyres present S&W's Export Credit Agency Annual Update breakfast briefing. Norris analyses the general trends affecting the ECA market, while Eyres provides an overview of UK Export...
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2015/10/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 22 October 2015) We have given a "climate grade" to key countries for their climate actions and new targets in the lead-in to the Paris climate agreement. Nobody is receiving top marks - an "A+" - but some countries are receiving failing grades. We...
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2015/10/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Human Rights
(Tass, Verona, 22 October 2015) The Italian export credit agency SACE has suffered losses up to €3 billion due to sanctions against Russia, head of the agency Giovanni Castallaneta said. "We have already suffered damage for 2014-2015 for the sum of €2.5-3 billion," Castellaneta told the...
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2015/10/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(ANSAmed, Rome, 20 October 2015) New export opportunities in the United Arab Emirates for Italian companies after the agreements signed by SACE with the Dubai Aviation City Corporation (DACC) and Abu Dhabi Ports, on the occasion of the Emirati National Day at the EXPO. The accord with DACC,...
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2015/10/30
(Interax, Moscow, 20 October 2015) The Russian government has approved the allocation to the Cuban authorities a state export credit for up to 1.2 billion euro for financing the construction of four generating units for thermal power plants (TPP) on the island: one 200-megawatt power unit at...
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2015/10/30
Country: Finland
ECAs: Finnvera
(Global News Wire, Copenhagen, 29 October 2015) During the period under review, the volume of export credit guarantee offers given by Finnvera was 52 per cent greater than in the corresponding period in 2014. As concerns financing offers for export credits, the figure was over two times greater...
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2015/10/30
Country: China
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Moscow, 29 October 2015) A deal to raise financing for the Novatek-led Yamal LNG project in Russia is in its final stages, the chairman of the management board at Gazprombank, Andrey Akimov, told Reuters. Financing for the $27 billion project is seen as a test for Russia in securing...
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2015/10/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: BRIC countries
(Creamer Media, Johannesburg, 29 October 2015) Canada’s official trade finance agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), has formally established permanent offices in Johannesburg, from where it aims to facilitate $10-billion-worth of business between sub-Saharan African and Canadian companies...
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2015/10/30
Country: Germany, USA
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(New York Times, New York, 10 October 2015) In 2013 the people who dreamed up Big River Steel in Arkansas wanted government aid that would help make the project successful — the kind of aid that groups like Heritage Action and Americans for Prosperity, both generously supported by the right-...
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2015/10/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Management Today, London, 30 September 2015) Evraz, the steel and mining giant that is 30.8% owned by the Russian oligarch and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, is due to receive a £45m loan from Britain's export credit agency. The loan is part of the UK Export Finance 'direct lending' scheme...
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2015/10/30
(CS Solutions Blog, 26 October 2015) International owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers, GasLog Ltd. has completed an export credit agency-backed debt financing of USD 1.3 billion with 14 banks for its newbuilding program. The so called Newbuild Facility will include eight... more
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(CS Solutions Blog, 26 October 2015) International owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers, GasLog Ltd. has completed an export credit agency-backed debt financing of USD 1.3 billion with 14 banks for its newbuilding program. The so called Newbuild Facility will include eight...
2015/10/30
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ClimateWire, Washington, 27 October 2015) The Obama administration has crafted a deal with Japan to restrict financing for overseas coal projects, several sources told ClimateWire. The agreement is aimed at influencing other members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
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2015/10/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(New York Times, Washington, 27 November 2015) The House acted with rare bipartisanship on Tuesday to approve legislation that would reopen the federal Export-Import Bank, after a debate that underscored the split between the party’s traditional pro-business members and ascendant free-market...
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2015/10/01
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, SOHAR, Oman, 8 September 2015) State-owned Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Co (ORPIC) will borrow money to finance 70 percent of its $5.2 billion plastics production complex, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday. The complex, the Liwa Plastics Project, is...
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