(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 28 September 2015) General Electric Co. is planning to build a state-of the art $265-million (U.S.) engine plant in Canada, as it shifts more business out of the United States following the collapse of U.S. government-sponsored export financing. GE said Monday it...
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2015/09/30
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, OECD, World Trade Organization
2015/08/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Fortune, 25 August 2015) In the months leading up to an expected vote to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import bank, Boeing did what large corporations with lots of cash and deft political maneuvering skills often do so well. It spoke softly and lobbied hard, scattering a few pro-Export-Import...
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2015/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Moodys, New York, 22 July 2015) Without the renewal of the US Export-Import Bank charter, which Congress allowed to expire at the end of June 2015, aerospace giant The Boeing Company will take the biggest blow, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report. Moody's does expect that the US...
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2015/07/29
Country: China, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(TXF News, London, 17 July 2015) The UK export credit agency and HSBC have teamed to arrange the first ever offshore renminbi (RMB) financing for an aircraft purchase – in this case the sale of a new Airbus A330-300 passenger aircraft to China Southern Airlines. The transaction represents a...
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2015/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, Oil, Gas and Mining
(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...
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2015/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, OECD, World Trade Organization
(The Hill, Washington, 15 April 2015) During congressional hearings, Republicans criticized Treasury Department officials for not negotiating with foreign governments to end subsidized export credit programs, as was mandated in the 2012 reauthorization bill. The Secretary of the Treasury had...
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2015/04/30
Country: China, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(TxfNews, Beijing, 2 April 2015) Airbus China Aircraft Leasing lands its first ECA-backed financing Chinese aircraft lessor China Aircraft Leasing Group (CALC) has completed its first aircraft financing backed by an export credit agency (ECA) guarantee – a $224 million facility guaranteed by UK...
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2015/03/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Emirates 24/7 Business and Reuters, Dubai, 12 March 2015) Emirates airline has hired eight banks to arrange an Islamic bond that will be guaranteed by Britain's export credit agency, a document from lead arrangers showed on Thursday. The deal assumes significance as this is the first time the...
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2015/02/28
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Aircraft, Arms Trade
(Aviation Week, Paris, 17 February 2015) Nearly three decades after its first flight the Dassault-built Rafale has garnered its first export sale. The Egyptian air force is buying 24 of the multi-role fighters, including 16 two-seater and eight single-seat jets. A FREMM frigate,...
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2015/02/28
Issue: Aircraft
(Live Trading News, New York, 28 February 2015) Cash-rich Gulf banks are becoming bigger players in the region’s aviation boom, helping carriers like Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways to fund their fleet expansion. Flush with huge cash deposits estimated at $1.15-T, Gulf banks have the...
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