(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...
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2020/05/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD
Member: Global Witness
2019/06/30
Country: Austria, China, Germany, Switzerland
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Common Approaches, European Union, OECD
(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...
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2017/12/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Common Approaches, Corruption, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(Global Trade Review, London, 7 December 2017) UK Export Finance (UKEF) has announced plans for a new invoice financing scheme for exporters in a bid to boost exports through supply chain efficiency. GTR has learned that the new scheme will allow an exporter to set up a supply chain discounting...
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2016/11/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
Member: Both ENDS
(ECA Watch, 30 November 2016, Ottawa) In a report dated November 30th 2016 [new link to go here], the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP), official monitoring body of the...
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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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2015/06/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches
Member: Both ENDS
(One World, Amsterdam, 4 June 2015) Evicting people from their homes is a major human rights violation according to the UN Commission on Human...
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2015/02/28
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Country: Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
(ECA Watch, Brussels, 18 February 2015) ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights:...
2013/10/31
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Common Approaches
The Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, the OECD and the German Institute for Human Rights are holding a joint meeting on: Social and human rights standards in the promotion of foreign trade to implement the "Common Approaches on the Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits" of...
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2004/06/14
Country: France
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Renewables
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
ECA-Watch discussion paper on ECA reform in favour of renewable energy export projects, written by Jörg Mühlenhoff, Friends of the Earth France, June 2004