(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: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
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...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption
Member: Both ENDS
2015/09/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: European Union, OECD
(PortNews, Moscow, 21 Septeember 2015) The Dutch export credit agency is ready to finance shipbuilding projects in Russia, Jan Fijnekam, Customer Finance Manager at Damen Shipyards, said today, September 21, at the International Conference “Advanced port fleet - the basis of safety” organized...
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2015/06/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches
Member: Both ENDS
(One World, Amsterdam, 4 June 2015) Evicting people from their homes is a major human rights violation according to the UN Commission on Human...
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2015/06/30
Country: Netherlands
Eva Schram (1988) is research editor at OneWorld
The original Dutch article can be read here
4 June 2015
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2015/06/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 5 June 2015) At the beginning of June an OECD Guidelines complaint was filed with the NCPs of Brazil and the Netherlands against the Dutch dredging company Van Oord and the Dutch ECA Atradius Dutch State Business on the adverse social and environmental impacts caused by...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: OECD
Member: Both ENDS
2015/06/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
At the beginning of June an OECD Guidelines complaint was filed with the NCPs of Brazil and the Netherlands against the Dutch dredging company Van Oord and the Dutch ECA Atradius Dutch State Business on the adverse social and environmental impacts caused by ECA supported dredging projects in...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
2015/04/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
(Thomson Reuters ZAWYA, Jeddah, 15 April 2015) The Managing Director of Atradius Dutch State Business paid a business visit to the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit ( ICIEC ) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 13, 2015. During the visit, the two institutions...
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2015/04/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Corruption
(McGraw Hill Financial, Rio de Janeiro, 20 April 2015) Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras approved a series of financial agreements with local and international banks that will meet its financing needs in 2015, the company said Friday. In a filing with local stock regulators, Petrobras...
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2015/03/31
Country: Brazil, Netherlands, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Corruption
(Guardian, London, 20 March 2015) The UK government provided hundreds of millions of pounds worth of support for a controversial energy project in Brazil that is now at the centre of a sprawling corruption scandal engulfing the country’s political and business elite. Hundreds of contracts for...
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2015/02/28
Country: China, Netherlands
(Global Trade Review, London, 11 February 2015) ABN Amro has signed an agreement with Sinosure which will help the Chinese export credit agency boost its funding for shipping and offshore drilling. While no specific transactions have been earmarked for partner funding, the bank’s Asia head of...
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2015/02/28
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Country: Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
(ECA Watch, Brussels, 18 February 2015) ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights:...
2015/02/28
Country: Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Morning Star, London, 20 February 2015) Recently released HSBC files reveal that the bank's Swiss branch held accounts for Jeffrey Tesler, a London lawyer...
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2015/01/30
Country: Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
(Reuters, 13 January 2015) Pakistan Mobile Communications (Mobilink), the country's largest telecommunications operator, plans to raise 6.9 billion rupees ($68.6 million) via Islamic bonds this quarter, Pakistan Credit Rating Agency said in a statement. The sukuk, which will be listed, have...
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