Translation of the original piece in Dutch found at the above link.
Opinion | Daniëlle Hirsch is director of Both ENDS
This week it came to light in the Dutch newspapers FD...
moreTranslation of the original piece in Dutch found at the above link.
Opinion | Daniëlle Hirsch is director of Both ENDS
This week it came to light in the Dutch newspapers FD...
more(Guardian, Luanda, 20 January 2020) Until the summer of 2013, Areia Branca, a fishing village just outside Luanda, the capital of Angola, was home to a thriving fishing community of 3,000 families. Now there is no trace of their houses, only sand, a pile of gravel, egrets, a bulldozer and a...
more(Bahamas Tribune, Nassau, 12 November 2019) The Dutch company that supplied nine Royal Bahamas Defence Force vessels, Damen Shipyard Group, misrepresented to the Dutch government how much it paid a foreign intermediary that worked on the project. The World Bank disbarred Damen for 18 months in...
more(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 17 November 2019) This report shows that the Dutch Export Credit Agency ADSB insured fossil fuel-related projects with a total insured value of € 10.8 billion in the period 2012-2018. This is more than 60% of its total insured value for that period and € 1.5 billion a...
more(The Independent, London, 27 September 2019) An oil company run by Ayman Asfari, the chief executive of Petrofac, a major Tory donor who met with Boris Johnson, has had a billion pound deal underwritten by UK Export Finance (UKEF) despite it being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office....
more(Macauhub, Macau, 11 January 2019) The government of Mozambique has been involved in the last few weeks in intense negotiations with seven countries to secure funding for one of its largest natural gas projects and overcome scepticism about whether it will honour its debt commitments. The...
more(US News, New York, 18 December 2018) Mexican energy producer Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will look to banks and export credit agencies (ECAs) to finance part of its deficit next year, as the company enters 2019 under a new government and uncertain conditions in the international capital...
more(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 28 June 2018) Following years of advocating with the Dutch export credit agency Atradius Dutch State Business (ADSB) to establish a complaints mechanism, and following active discussions between a number of Dutch NGOs and the Dutch ECA in recent months, ADSB has published...
more(ECA Watch & Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 24 August 2017) In response to a European Greens Parliamentary question, Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, replied...
more(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 14 June 2017) Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are key institutions governments employ to support private companies doing business overseas. ECAs offer a wide range of guarantees and insurances to private companies. This makes it easier for these companies to gain access to...
more(ECA Watch, 30 November 2016, Ottawa) In a report dated November 30th 2016 the Dutch...
more(ECA Watch, 30 November 2016, Ottawa) In a report dated November 30th 2016 [new link to go here], the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP), official monitoring body of the...
more(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 5 September 2016) At the end of 2016, the Dutch government will present a policy review of its export credit facility - as implemented by Atradius Dutch State Business (ADSB) - to the national Parliament. In conversations with multiple staff members of parliamentarians,...
moreAround 90% of the respondents of the latest edition of the Atradius Payment Practices Barometer survey for Western Europe had invoices paid late by their B2B customers over the past year. Respondents in Great Britain were the hardest hit by late payment from export customers (46.4% of the total...
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