(Global Trade Review, London, 25 January 2016) Italian utility group Enel has secured a US$1bn line of credit from the Bank of China, backed by Sinosure, the Chinese state export credit insurer. The five-year facility is aimed at financing projects involving Chinese companies around the world...
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(Global Trade Review, London, 21 January 2016) Petrobras has received a US$500mn buyer’s credit facility from JP Morgan for the purchase of equipment manufactured by a UK subsidiary of GE Oil & Gas. Subsea and surface oil gas pipelines will be exported by Newcastle-based Wellstream...
more(TXF News, 21 January 2016) In the century of their existence, export credit agencies (ECAs) have rarely been subjected to the level of public scrutiny they find themselves under today... Their advocates claim export credits allow impoverished importers to purchase goods that might otherwise be...
more(24/7 Wall Street, NewYork, 22 January 2016) Boeing Co. on Friday morning released its 2016 aircraft finance market outlook. The headline number is $127 billion, the forecast amount for new commercial deliveries in 2016, up from $124 billion in 2015. The company’s Boeing Capital...
(New York Times, New York, 26 January 2016) Aircraft offer a stark example of Iran’s need for foreign goods. The sanctions left Iran with one of the world’s oldest and most accident-prone fleets. Iran Air operates exclusively Western-built jets, consisting of around 40 planes with an average...
more(Export Import Bank, Washington, 14 January 2016) The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) released its...
more(TFX News, London, 11 January 2016) Localisation requirements in emerging-markets projects are meant to be a way of giving back; an attempt at ensuring a lasting beneficial legacy for the local population of the respective country. But is this ostensibly benign endeavour offering a perfect...
more(TFX News, London, 25 January 2016) India’s election in 2014 of business-friendly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with his promises of a capex boom, triggered a rush of optimism that ECA finance would finally take off. The rout in global commodity prices that started less than two months...
more(International Rivers, Berkeley, 3 December 2015) At the Paris COP, 500 NGOs from 85 countries published a manifesto on 10 Reasons Why Climate Initiatives Should Not Include Large Hydropower Projects. The manifesto explicitly refers to the inclusion of large hydro projects in the special terms...
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