(TFX News, New York, 3 February 2021) The OECD Consensus has a long history but it’s still the only game in town. With the International Working Group now in stasis, is that a problem, or is it going to focus minds on reform? The ‘Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits’ started out...
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(Bankwatch, Prague, 4 September 2020) Despite being the biggest class of public finance institutions operating internationally, export credit agencies (ECAs) are rarely subject to any public scrutiny. European ECAs self-declare compliance with the non-binding OECD Common Approaches standards,...
more(ECA-Watch, Amsterdam, 29 June 2020) As part of continued advocacy with the European institutions on Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), European groups are working to enhance the reporting requirements of the EU ECAs under EU...
more(Lexology, London, 30 April 2020) While businesses lobby governments for support, there have been suggestions that ECAs may need to step up to fill a reduced commercial debt capacity for aircraft. During the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, European ECAs financed up to a third of annual...
more(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 May 2020) This month's news is dominated by vast amounts of export credit funding approved to shore up companies facing an international collapse of consumption, production and trade resulting from the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic. How much government support is going to...
more(Global Trade Review, London, 19 June 2019) Hermes, OeKB and Serv – the export credit agencies (ECAs) of Germany, Austria and Switzerland respectively – have agreed to join forces to improve opportunities for their exporters in the face of increased competition from Asia. While the statement...
more(European Ombudsman, Brussels, 17 July 2018) Following a complaint launched by ECA Watch members, the European Ombudsman has determined that the European Commission wrongly decided not to carry out a human rights impact assessment before agreeing to the 2015 Sector Understanding on Export...
more(Finance & Trade Watch and CEE Bankwatch, Dec. 2017) Export credits are big business. Members of the industry’s Berne Union, both state and private, insured approximately USD 1.9 trillion per year between 2012 and 2016, of which USD1 trillion was state ECA insured. That amount far...
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