(Trade and Export Finance, Rome, 15 May 2015) SACE has signed a technical cooperation agreement to increase the capacity of the Iranian ECA, Export Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI). Under the agreement, SACE will offer EGFI advisory and training services on products, processes and risk assessment...
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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: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(TxfNews, Rome, 27 April 2015) Italian export credit agency SACE is set to expand activity with Cuba and has raised the ceiling for the support of Italian exports and investments in the country. As one of the first export credit agencies to announce such an initiative, SACE has approved a...
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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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2015/04/30
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: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(SACE, Rome, 23 March 2015) Bernardo Attolico has been appointed the head of the Debt Capital Markets division of SACE, created within the Business area to develop services dedicated to companies active in the capital markets. Attolico will oversee the origination and structuring of debt...
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2015/03/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Mercopress, Montevideo, 6 March 2015) The UK and Mexico have signed a memorandum to further support trade and markets, and advance cooperation between the two countries export promotion organizations, UK Export Finance and Bancomext, Mexican Trade Development Bank. Should Bancomext join UKEF’s...
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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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2015/03/31
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
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Debt
(Reuters, London 4 February 2015) n">Credit guarantees are gaining traction in Islamic finance, helping a wider range of firms to tap the market for sharia-compliant debt, which remains stubbornly reliant on sovereign and quasi-sovereign issuers. ...
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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
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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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2015/02/28
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
(Les Echos, Paris, 23 February 2015) It was a tough start to the week and an eventful year for Coface. The government said Monday that it planned to withdraw the management of public export guarantees from Coface to entrust them to the Banque publique d'investissement (Bpifrance). This is to...
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