(Brave New Coin, Southbank AU, 15 August 2016) Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML), HSBC, and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (iDA) recently announced that they have jointly developed “a prototype solution built on Blockchain technology that could change the way businesses...
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2016/03/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 March 2016) UK Export Finance has adopted the Equator Principles, a global framework aiming to promote sustainable project financing. Introduced in 2003 and already adopted by 80 financial institutions, the Equator Principles are a risk management framework to...
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2016/01/27
Issue: Corruption, OECD, Transparency
(TFX News, London, 11 January 2016) Localisation requirements in emerging-markets projects are meant to be a way of giving back; an attempt at ensuring a lasting beneficial legacy for the local population of the respective country. But is this ostensibly benign endeavour offering a perfect...
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2015/12/31
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 17 December 2015) On 8 June 2015 Both ENDS – in conjunction with and on behalf of Associação Fórum Suape Espaço Socioambiental, Conectas Direitos Humanos and Colônia de Pescadores do Município do Cabo de Santo Agostinho – notified the Dutch National Contact Point of a...
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2015/09/30
Country: Turkey
(Hasankeyf Action Day, Hasankeyf, 20 September 2015) On September 20th, activists, social movements and NGO's joined an international action day for the conservation of Hasankeyf and the Tigris River. Protesting against the Ilisu Dam Project, a large demonstration took place in the 10.000 year...
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ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Human Rights, Large Dams, Transparency
2013/12/31
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Transparency
Member: urgewald
Three organizations want to enforce access to information regarding documents on export credit guarantees - Human rights assessments not disclosed
BERLIN, 9 December 2013 – Human rights organizations,...
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2012/06/30
Issue: OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 June 2012) The OECD's Export Credit Division last released overall ECA activity statistics up to 2005 in January 2007. OECD staff have argued that difficulties in...
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2012/06/03
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 June 2012) The OECD's Export Credit Division last released overall ECA activity statistics up to 2005 in January 2007. OECD staff have argued that difficulties in standardizing their databases for... more
Issue: OECD, Transparency
2012/01/04
(San Antonio Express, San Antonio, 27 January 2012) A former Wells Fargo Bank loan officer was sentenced Friday to four months of jail and four months of house arrest for taking a $50,000 bribe linked to the largest fraud against the nation's official export credit agency. Gerardo Uribe, 45, was... more
Issue: Transparency
2008/01/01
(FERN, Brussels, January 2008) FERN's new report (PDF) explains how the Aarhus Convention on access to environmental information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental... more
Issue: Transparency
2005/08/06
August 12 , 2005 (Source: Proyecto Gato) — Six Belgian NGOs have issued a statement calling on Ducroire to improve its policies with respect to the OECD Recommendation on... more
ECAs: Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Issue: Common Approaches, Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Renewables, Transparency