KfW IPEX-Bank, together with Crédit Agricole CIB, Banco Santander, S.A., Mizuho Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB), and the Danish Export Credit Agency (EKF), has decided to finance the 30 MW Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating wind project offshore France. “Fixed offshore...
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2022/05/30
Country: Denmark
ECAs: Denmark EKF
Issue: Common Approaches, European Union, Transparency
(European Commission, Brussels, 4 May 2022) The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, the reintroduction of a Danish short-term export credit scheme. Under the scheme, the Danish State can cover risks of single export transactions. The scheme was originally approved in...
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2022/01/31
Country: Denmark
ECAs: Denmark EKF
Issue: Renewables
(Renewables Now, Fresno, 18 January 2022) Renewable energy producer EDP Renewables (ELI:EDPR) said today it has sealed a deal to obtain debt funding for a 149.4-MW portfolio of wind projects in Poland. The project financing was arranged by the European Investment Bank (EIB), Spain’s Banco...
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2021/12/31
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Turkey
ECAs: Denmark EKF
(Global Trade Review, London, 8 December 2021) Danish export credit agency EKF has signed its largest ever export loan for the construction of a high-speed railway project in Turkey. The agency is lending €576mn to the Turkish finance ministry for the project. The loan is classified as green...
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2021/05/29
Country: Denmark
ECAs: Denmark EKF
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
(Just Finance International, Aarhus, 25 May 2021) A forthcoming report from Just Finance International outlines recommendations to the Danish government for plans to phase out fossil fuel support for its export credit agency (ECA) Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) and also for its broader...
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2021/04/28
Country: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Denmark EKF, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Oil Change International, Washington, 15 April 2011) In response to the launch of a new Export Finance for the Future coalition (E3F), 21 civil society organizations (CSOs) from 14 countries...
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2020/07/29
Country: Denmark
ECAs: Denmark EKF
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Open Democracy, London, 28 July 2020) After a Danish-funded mine caused serious environmental damage in Armenia, the Danish state has been less than forthcoming on failed due diligence, transparency and compensation. As a result of the Danish-funded mine construction, the Teghut mine caused...
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2018/11/27
Country: Denmark, Germany, Iran, USA
ECAs: Denmark EKF, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Human Rights
(Washington Post, Berlin, 31 October 2018) At the end of last year, the Danish Export Credit Agency had approved eight Iranian banks for credit lines or guarantees and vowed to resist U.S. pressure to dismantle those ties. However, Denmark is now leading a push for new E.U. sanctions against...
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2018/10/29
Country: Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom
ECAs: Denmark EKF
Issue: Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 28 September 2018) Denmark’s EKF has signed an £800mn guarantee for Hornsea 1 in what it says is the largest wind financing that any public export credit agency has ever provided. Located off the coast of Yorkshire, UK, Hornsea 1 is currently being constructed by...
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