(ODI Global, London, 14 December 2023) This year old report explores the development of Sinosure as an institution and its involvement in China’s overseas lending and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This report makes two main contributions. First, it examines an understudied aspect of China...
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2024/12/31
Country: Russia, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, Debt, European Union, Transparency
(The Diplomat, Arlington, 5 December) The U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to slap sanctions on Gazprombank poses a potential major headache for Uzbekistan’s burgeoning mining industry, which until now has relied on the Russian lender to finance a $4.8 billion mine expansion set to nearly...
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2024/12/31
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sinosure
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Debt, Renewables
(Africa Development Bank, Abidjan, 4 December 2024) The African Development Bank Group hosted a high-profile meeting of global insurers, export credit agencies and institutional investors to explore innovative risk-sharing solutions on the sidelines of the Africa Investment Forum Market Days...
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2024/10/31
Country: India
Issue: BRIC countries, Debt
(Financial Express, Delhi, 22 October 2024) Apart from higher costs and other difficulties, the disruption caused by the two war zones in the world has added to the liquidity woes of India’s exporters as they deal with longer payment schedules and the impact of the situation on export credit...
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2024/10/31
Country: China, Turkey
Issue: Debt
(Global Construction Review, London, 15 October 2024) After 9 years of striving, the government of Uganda yesterday signed a contract with Turkish contractor Yapı Merkezi to build the first section of the country’s standard gauge railway. The €2.7bn deal was formalised in the capital Kampala...
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2024/10/31
Issue: Debt
(Ciber Cuba, Miami, 18 October 2024) According to the agreement approved in 2015 by both governments, the resources would be invested in the construction of four generation units of 200 MW for two thermal power plants. In 2022, the regime quietly admitted that it had not met the conditions to...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt
(Splash 247, Singapore, 17 September 2024) Harland & Wolff, the owner of the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, has announced that it will be entering into administration this week after failing to find new funding following the UKEF rejection of the company’s request for a £200m...
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2024/08/31
Country: Canada, United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Debt, Transparency
(Guardian, London, 20 August 2024) Canada’s state-backed export credit agency is reportedly nursing steep losses after lending debt-ridden Thames Water as much as a billion Canadian dollars. The British utility, which has said it could run out of cash by next June, received five loans from...
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2024/07/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Debt
(Harris Sliwoski, Los Angeles, 17 July 2024) US law firm accuses Sinosure of pressuring clients to pay off Chinese factories for allegedly owed money. They claim the Chinese state-owned export credit insurance company actively pursues overseas companies for alleged unpaid debts on behalf of...
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2024/05/31
Country: Japan
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Debt, Transparency
(IFC, Washington, 28 May 2024) The World Bank Group's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) today signed three-year cooperation agreements with Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), the official export credit agency of Japan, to...
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2024/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, European Union, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Oil Change International, Re:Common
(Counter Balance, Brussels, 13 March 2024) The latest report from Counter Balance titled "No role for export credits in the EU’s development finance" sheds light on the growing...
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2024/02/27
Country: South Africa
Issue: Debt
(Trade Finance Global, London, 15 February 2024) The African economy has suffered three major shocks in quick succession, namely, the COVID-19 pandemic, spillovers from geopolitical tensions and supply chain disruptions. This, coupled with widening fiscal deficits, exchange rate volatility and...
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2024/01/30
Country: Sweden
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Debt
(TXF News, London, 23 January) H2 Green Steel (H2GS) – the world’s second green hydrogen mega project – has taken a similar approach to Neom for its hydrogen-powered steel manufacturing project in Boden, Sweden. The simple math – 1% overall cost increase for 40% emissions decrease on the final...
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2024/01/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Debt
(Global Trading Magazine, Dallas, 8 January 2024) An in-depth guide on handling the Sinosure export credit insurance services and getting deferred payments for your imports from Chinese suppliers. Payment terms in contracts with Chinese suppliers can require as much as 30% of the total up front...
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2023/11/30
Issue: Debt
Global Trade Review, London, 22 November 2023) Premiums for trade credit insurance hit US$13.9bn in 2022, a small proportion [0.19%] of the US$7tn in insured shipments where trade credit insurance could have been used, the International Credit Insurance and Surety Association (ICISA) says. Only...
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