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2015/07/29

Japan's NEXI halts export insurance cover for Venezuela

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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Country: Japan ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Debt

2015/07/29

EU tries again for compromise on deal to phase out coal aid via ECAs

(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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Country: Japan ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining

2015/06/30

OECD ECAs in stalemate over coal subsidy phase-out

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Brussels, 12 June 2015) Talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidies ended in stalemate as Japan, the biggest user of the aid, led calls for more time in defiance of this week's G7 pledge on fossil fuel subsidies, sources said. The Paris-based Organization for...

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ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining

2014/11/27

Financing banks and ECAs announced for SOCAR STAR refinery in Turkey

(Cistran Finance, Chicago, 11 June 2014) A list of 23 banks and ECAs that will be financing the construction of SOCAR’s STAR oil refinery in the Aliaga port in Turkey was announced in an official ceremony last week. The list includes the following ECAs: Export Development Canada, JBIC, NEXI,...

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Country: Canada, Italy, Japan ECAs: Export Development Canada, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A. Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining

2014/11/27

Japan coal power plant export push hits U.S. Resistance

(Freight News, Piraeus Greece, 24 October 2014) The United States has challenged the Japanese government over moves to ramp up exports of coal-fired power technology and to offer cheap loans to lure buyers, according to a U.S. source with direct knowledge of the matter... Japan’s shipments of...

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Country: Japan, USA ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables

2014/03/29

Rinehart wins Roy Hill funding with ECA support

(Business Spectator, Melbourne, 21 March 2014) Gina Rinehart has secured backing from a group of global banks and export credit agencies for a new $US10 billion ($A11.0bn) iron-ore mine that can feed Asian steel demand, just as miners like BHP Billiton scale back investments amid a broad...

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Country: Australia ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining

2013/07/29

Australia’s Rinehart clears hurdles on $10 B iron ore project

(Reuters, Sydney, 18 July 2013) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart's $10 billion Roy Hill iron ore project has overcome key hurdles holding up debt negotiations, a move that could pave the way for the mine to start producing by September 2015, sources said on Thursday... Export credit...

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Country: Australia, Japan ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining

2013/06/26

First JBIC Credit Line to Support of Japanese Company Exports to Mongolia

(JBIC, Tokyo, 6 June 2013) The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a general agreement with the Ministry of Economic Development of the Government of Mongolian, offering the first export credit line of the equivalent of 8 billion yen (US$82 million). The credit line is...

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Country: Japan ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance

2013/04/29

NGOs warn banks not to further finance PNG LNG project

(Banktrack, Nijegen, 18 April 2013) A coalition of seven NGOs (BankTrack, Jubilee Australia, Pacific Environment, Act Now! PNG, Mineral Policy Institute, International Accountability Project and Friends of the Earth France) today sent a letter to seventeen banks that are already involved in the...

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Country: Australia, China, Italy, Japan, USA ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A. Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining Member: Les Amis de la Terre,

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2013/02/01

Financing Nuclear Times

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Region: Europe, Central Asia & Russia Country: France, Germany
Dodgy Deal: Angra 3, Nuclear Power Plant in Brazil, Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Nuclear Member: FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, , Re:Common, urgewald

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