(Reuters, Manama, 26 February 2019) Bahrain is talking to U.S. oil companies with shale oil expertise about developing a huge oil and gas field discovered last year, and hopes to have an interested company by the end of the year. Oil Minister Al Khalifa also said state-run Bahrain Petroleum...
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2019/02/28
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Export Import Bank of Korea, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
2019/02/27
Country: Australia, Iraq, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Daily Sabah, Istanbul, 4 February 2019) Turkey, the top contributor for Iraq's reconstruction with a $5 billion loan, has launched a coordination process to allocate the funds pledged for rebuilding Iraq. During the Kuwait International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq, the host...
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2019/02/27
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
(Guardian, London, 24 February 2019) Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Britain to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, in what he said would mark a test of Theresa May’s commitment to act on climate change. The former UN secretary general said he was deeply concerned that...
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2019/01/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(NEXI, Tokyo, 18 January 2019) Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) has decided to provide reinsurance on export credit provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the export credit agency of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), for export of one Rolls Royce-powered...
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2019/01/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
(UK Parliament, London, January 2019) The Terms of Reference, membership, witness submissions, witness guidelines and the calendar of the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into UK Export Finance are now available online.
2018/12/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(EDIE, West Sussex, 3 December 2018) The [Parliamentary] Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has launched an...
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2018/11/28
Country: Malaysia, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Ekklesia, London, 16 November 2018) In the wake of the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi and international warnings on climate change, the UK Government is discreetly considering supporting a Saudi Arabian oil company with a petrochemical project. UK Export Finance (UKEF), the controversial...
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2018/10/28
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Global Witness, London, 10 October 208) On the week that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its report on the scale of the challenge to limit the dangers of climate change, the near-simulanteous announcement of new UK Government support for oil and gas abroad has been...
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2018/09/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade
(The Canary, London, 15 September 2018) UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid recently hailed the UAE’s important role and pioneering initiatives to promote international peace and security and combat extremism and terrorism. Javid’s comments come after the...
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2018/08/28
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Global Trade Review, London, 24 August 2018) UK Export Finance (UKEF), the country’s export credit agency, is providing a guarantee for a US$125mn loan from Citi to El Al Israel Airlines to finance their purchase of one Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 787 aircraft. The deal is part of Rolls-Royce’s...
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2018/07/27
Country: Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Daily Monitor, Kampala, 24 July 2018) Uganda hurriedly firmed up plans to revamp the country’s defunct airline in March 2019, after signing a purchase agreement for four Canadian Regional Jets 900 series, while at the Farnborough airshow in the United Kingdom. Uganda also signed a memorandum...
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2018/06/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Transparency
(Bridging & Commercial, London, 21 June 2018) UK Export Finance (UKEF) has revealed that it helped UK exporters – 77% of which were smaller businesses – secure sales to over 75 countries during the financial year 2017/18. In its annual report and accounts, the UK’s export credit agency...
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2018/06/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Express, London, 9 June 2018) Trade Secretary Liam Fox has announced the UK has secured a £1.5 billion trade deal and signed off £75 million in other trade agreements in a major boost for the UK economy after Brexit. Dr Fox is expected to release a new Export Strategy which will set out the...
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2018/05/31
Country: France, Germany, Iran, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: European Union, Nuclear
(Reuters, Paris/Brussels, 3 May 2018) France, Britain and Germany all say they will stay in the deal even if the United States withdraws, and try to protect and foster European trade and ECA support with Iran, which has soared since the European Union lifted most of its economic sanctions. Iran...
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2018/04/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: European Union
(EURACTV, Brussels, 6 April 201) It used to be a Eurosceptic fantasy for the Commonwealth to replace the EU as the UK’s main trading partner. That may still be a fantasy, but Theresa May’s government sees the organisation, which includes Australia, Canada, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and...
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