(TFX News, London, 31 May 2023) The spectre of increasing sovereign debt has the potential to swamp future export finance deals and projects in several African jurisdictions. The changes to the OECD Arrangement on officially supported export credit...
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2021/10/30
Issue: Debt, European Union, OECD
(Lexology, London, 4 October 2021) The European Commission launched a consultation process on 30 September 2021, sending a proposal to Member States on a sixth draft amendment to the Temporary Framework on State aid measures to support member economies in the current COVID-19 outbreak. The...
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2020/10/28
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt, European Union, OECD
(Lexology, London, 14 October 2020) The EU Commission has published a 4th amendment to its 19 March 2020 guidance document on state aid in reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak (...
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2019/11/29
Issue: Debt, OECD
(Greek City Times, Sydney, 27 November 2019) The European Commission on Tuesday announced its decision to return Greece to the list of “marketable risk” countries for short-term export credit insurance, following the successful completion of its fiscal adjustment program in August 2018 and the...
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2018/12/30
Country: China
Issue: BRIC countries, Debt, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(TFX News, London, 10 December 2018) Often priced at well below accepted market rates, Chinese official finance is a major hurdle to fair competition in the global export market. A growing number of governments are attempting to compete by circumventing OECD rules and blurring trade with aid....
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2018/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Bank Track, Finance & Trade Watch
(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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2016/10/31
Issue: Debt, OECD
(Eurodad, Brussels, 7 October 2016) Eurodad has learned that at an October 10 meeting of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) it was to be decided that the DAC would approve a blurring of lines between export credits and Official Development Assistance (ODA). The issue is now to be...
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2016/08/29
Country: Argentina
Issue: Debt, OECD
Argentina’s sovereign debt may be outperforming most of its emerging-market peers this year, but the OECD says the country is as risky as North Korea, Venezuela and Iran. The ranking is a remnant from the days when Argentina was still a pariah in international markets -- and it could soon...
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2006/09/29
Issue: Debt, OECD
(ECA Watch, Paris, 29 September 2006) The OECD's Export Credit Group (ECG) agreed in July 2001 to a Statement of Principles designed to discourage the provision of...
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