(Renewables Now, Fresno, 5 November 2019) The UK’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), will provide a TWD-9.2-billion (US$303m/EUR 272m) project finance guarantee to support the construction of the 376-MW Formosa II offshore wind project in Taiwanese waters. UK companies will be...
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2019/10/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Telegraph, London, 23 October 2019) New research shows that many SMEs in the UK want to explore opportunities overseas, but are put off by the potential payment issues. More UK small businesses would happily export across the globe if they had the correct finance in place, and felt protected...
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2019/10/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Fox43 / CNN, Harrisburg, 4 October 2019) Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion used a fire engine to spray 1,800 liters of fake blood at Britain’s finance ministry in London on Thursday, in protest over what it says is the UK’s contradictory stance on tackling climate change. “The...
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2019/09/28
Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom
ECAs: Atradius, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Corruption
(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....
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2019/08/30
Country: South Africa, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, Corruption
(The Citizen, Johannesburg, 22 August 2019) The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has set aside the findings of the Seriti commission on Wednesday, delivering a scathing judgment that it had failed in fulfilling its mandate. The High Court judgment on the findings of the commission lamented...
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2019/07/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(Sahara Reporters, New York, 24 July 2019) With Boris Johnson, who promised to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union without a deal if necessary now the country's prime minister, the United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF), has increased the export credit finance agreement it signed...
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2019/07/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Guardian, London, 23 July 2019) The British government has spent £680m of its foreign aid budget on fossil fuel projects since 2010, according to analysis that highlights the UK’s failure to align diplomatic, trade and aid policies with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Britain...
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2019/06/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Global Witness
(EU Today, London, 9 June 2019) For the first time, a Parliamentary committee has called for an end to taxpayer support for overseas fossil fuel projects. The Government must move immediately to end UKEF’s fossil fuel support, or all its talk of a ‘climate emergency’ will be seen as hollow...
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2019/05/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Guardian, London, 8 May 2019) The British government’s aid spending is failing to recognise the “scale and urgency” of the climate change challenge facing the world, MPs warn. Climate change must be placed at the centre of aid strategy and funding, if it is to address the seriousness of...
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2019/03/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 March 2019) Excluded from many projects in countries under IMF bailout programmes, UK exporters are calling for a trade and aid link in African infrastructure and a rewrite of OECD guidelines that bind export credit agencies. The support is good but UK exporters...
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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
(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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2019/02/27
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.