(Trade & Export Finance, London, 29 January 2016) A new law was passed in France last month which will change the face of the country's export credit agency (ECA). After nearly 70 years as France's ECA Coface is set to transfer the handling of state export credit guarantees to French public...
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2015/11/30
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
(Global Trade Review, Paris 24 November 2015) France’s Banque Publique d’Investissement (Bpifrance) has issued its first export credit facility to bread equipment manufacturer Mecatherm, for the export of two bread production lines to Mozambique. Created in 2013, Bpifrance offers capital and...
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2015/09/30
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(FOE France, Paris, 30 September 2015) Today's publication of new criteria for coal-fired power plant financing by French bank Crédit Agricole suggests that the bank will be unable to finance the controversial €800 million Plomin C coal power plant in Croatia, campaign groups beleive. The...
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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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2015/06/30
Country: Australia, France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade
(Military Technologies, Singapore, 1 June 2015) Satellite operators on June 1 expressed concern that the U.S. Export-Import Bank and France’s Coface, the world’s two most-active export agencies (ECAs) in funding satellite projects, might reduce their support for the industry in light of the...
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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
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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2014/12/31
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Moscow, 23 December 2014) Total SA (FP) and its partners will use a record 16 ice-breaking tankers to smash through floes en route to and from the Arctic’s biggest liquefied natural-gas development. They’re still looking for a way around a freeze in U.S. financing... The U.S. Export...
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2014/11/28
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Paris 27 November 2014) France will eliminate export credits for energy projects in developing countries which involve coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, President Francois Hollande said on Thursday. The European Union is phasing out subsidies for domestic coal plants by 2018 in...
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2014/11/27
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(SpaceNews, Paris, 12 November 2014) The French government will reform its Coface export-credit agency to enable it to offer financial backing to satellite projects at the same rates as its American counterpart... Coface used to dominate export credits for satellite projects. But in the past...
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2014/07/29
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change
(Le Figaro, Paris, 6 July 2014) The French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development has called for an end to public subsidies for fossil fuels. After warning that our addiction to fossil fuels will destroy more wealth than it creates, he called on public and private investors...
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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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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Friends of the Earth France, Paris 10 February 2014) Tomorrow French President Francois Hollande will meet US President Barack Obama. Last year, Mr Obama announced the end of US public financing for new coal-fired power plants overseas, he now wants other developed countries to follow suit. In...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
Friends of the Earth France has urged President Hollande and his government to end French support for coal-fired power plants via its export credit agency Coface and the various multilateral development banks in which it plays a significant role...
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2013/09/30
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(SpaceNews, 23 September 2013, Paris) Representatives of the U.S. and French export-credit agencies gave no sign of pulling back on their support for their domestic rocket and satellite builders despite ongoing concerns by private-sector bankers that the agencies are funding projects that...
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