Around 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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2015/12/31
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(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: 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: 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
2015/04/30
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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2015/02/28
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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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External reports and publications
2015/02/18
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: Failure to Protect. The report calls on states to...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour, Lending to Belarus
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
2014/12/31
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption
Member: Both ENDS
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 24 December 2014)
by: Wiert Wiertsema, Both ENDS
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras is currently involved in a corruption scandal that affects all companies it has been working with. The Dutch enterprise SBM Offshore paid bribes to Petrobras, and recently...
2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, USA
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 23 October 2014) On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal. The consortium includes the two main Dutch dredging companies: Royal Boskalis...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Member: Both ENDS
Both ENDS, 23 October 2014
On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal[1]. The consortium...
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2014/05/31
Country: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
ECAs: Atradius, COFACE, Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Finnvera, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(European Commission, Brussels, 7 March 2014) Regulation (EU) No 1233/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2011 on the application of certain guidelines in the field of officially supported export credits foresees that Member States shall make available to the...
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2013/10/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
(Atradius Dutch State Business, Amsterdam, 15 October 2013) Dutch ECA Atradius Dutch State Business has announced that banks outside the OECD area are now eligible for export credit cover if they finance Dutch exports. Up to now, only banks from the Netherlands and other OECD countries could...
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