(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: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Renewables
(Bloomberg, Washington, 7 July 2015) The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s $1 billion program to boost India’s clean-energy industry has been suspended after the institution’s lending authority lapsed, an Indian government official working on the project said. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency...
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2015/07/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Debt
Argus, Kyoto, 13 July 2015) Japan's state-backed export insurance agency Nexi has suspended underwriting new insurance for trade and investment in Venezuela as the Latin American producer faces foreign currency shortages amid weaker oil prices. Nexi will halt issuing almost all new insurance...
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2015/07/29
Country: Italy, United Kingdom
ECAs: SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Nuclear
(Reuters, Milan, 14 July 2015) A gradual lifting of sanctions against Iran could lift Italian exports to the Asian country by around 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in the next four years, Italy's export credit agency SACE said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Britain's export credit agency...
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2015/07/29
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bellona Foundation, Oslo, 20 July 2015) Earlier this year the French government announced plans to withdraw credits for the construction of coal power plants in developing countries (‘export credits’). The French President noted that guarantees would only be granted to plants equipped with...
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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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2015/07/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Brussels, 27 July 2015) EU bosses are pushing to resolve a clash between industry and environmental policy with a new strategy to phase out funding to export coal technology to developing nations, ahead of a meeting of leading economic powers on the issue. The European Commission, the...
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2015/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(New York Times, Washington, 25 & 29 July 2015) In a rare and fiery weekend session, the Senate voted on Sunday to resurrect the federal Export-Import Bank, handing the Republican Party’s most conservative wing a major defeat and setting up a showdown this week with House leaders divided...
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2015/06/30
(USA Today, Washington, 30 June 2015 14:03 EDT) The charter for the Export-Import Bank of the United States expires at midnight Tuesday, delivering at least a short-term victory for fiscal conservatives and activists who targeted the 81-year-old institution as a free market distortion.
2015/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(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...
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2015/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Newsweek, Washington, 8 June 2015) The nearly 80-year-old federally run Ex-Im bank claims to cover its own costs—even generating a surplus—thanks to the interest it collects on loans. It claimed to support $27.4 billion in U.S. exports last year, less than 2 percent of all American exports....
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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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2015/06/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(The Economic Voice, London, 18 June 2015) UK Export Finance, the UK’s export credit agency and a government department has laid its 2014-2015 annual report before...
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2015/06/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade
(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...
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2015/06/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(Global Trade Review, St. Petersburg, 15 June 2015) Sberbank of Russia and Italia export credit agency Sace signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum... Despite the sanctions, Russia remains an important partner for Italy. Alessandro...
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