(Financial Times Trade Secrets, Budapest, 26 October 2021) The industry has helped backstop sectors such as airlines hit hard by Covid, saving companies and jobs. An interview with the head of the Berne Union, an association of export credit agencies, to find out how it is helping exporters arm...
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(PR Newswire, Chicago, 14 April 2021) Boeing projects global and diversified funding will continue to flow into the aircraft financing sector as the aviation sector navigates the global pandemic and vaccine deployment continues to accelerate. The 2021 CAFMO reports the aircraft financing...
more(Global Trade Review, London, 17 March 2021) Amid broader turbulence in the aviation sector, Asian public sector institutions rolled out hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of support to airlines in the region last week. In one deal, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) inked...
more(Bloomberg, New York, 18 February 2021) Airbus SE generated 4.9 billion euros ($5.9 billion) in cash during the fourth quarter, while issuing cautious guidance on the pace of its recovery from aviation’s worst-ever crisis. Jet handovers are forecast to stay at 2020’s depressed levels this year...
more(SpaceIntel Report, Potomac, 11 January 2021) The U.S. Export-Import Bank is preparing a possible seizure of the Bulgaria Sat 1 telecommunications satellite, in orbit since 2017, following the owner’s inability to reimburse an Ex-Im loan of $150.5 million. The bank, which is the U.S. export-...
more(Centre for Aviation, Sydney, 31 December 2020) On 31-Dec-2020 IAG announced that its subsidiary British Airways had received commitments for a GBP 2 billion five-year term loan facility underwritten by a syndicate of banks. On 8-Jan-2021 easyJet announced a GBP1.4 billion five year facility,...
more(VnExpress International, Hanoi, 6 December 2020) Swedish financial institutions have proposed a commercial loan to develop aviation projects in Vietnam, including the Long Thanh International Airport. The Swedish Export Credit Agency and the state-owned Export Credit Corporation in Sweden have...
more(Irish Times, Dublin, 7 December 2020) Norwegian Air Shuttle secured a crucial lifeline on Monday when the High Court granted the embattled carrier and five Irish subsidiaries protection from creditors. Norwegian owes creditors, mainly aircraft lessors and banks, more than $5 billion (€4.1...
more(New York Times, Fairfax, 4 September 2020) In 1971 at the urging of banking lobbyists, the U.S. Export-Import Bank created the Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO), a private entity owned by over two dozen banks and a handful of big corporations. It has operated under consecutive 25-year...
more(Pomerantz LLP, New York, 29 August 2020) New York law firm Pomerantz has initiated a class action on behalf of Airbus investors who acquired Airbus securities in the U.S. between February 24, 2016, and July 30, 2020, On January 31, 2020,...
more(Reuters, Washington, 30 July 2020) The U.S. Export-Import Bank said on Thursday its board of directors approved a $97.2 million working capital loan guarantee for Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer’s U.S.-based business jet subsidiary. The federal export credit agency said the guarantee for the...
more(JSUPRA, Sausalito, 16 July 2020) The use of Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing in the aviation industry has ebbed and flowed over the years, and it is often during turbulent times that it has proved to be most popular. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented downturn...
more(Aviation Week, London, 15 June 2020) The U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) is back in the business of supporting Boeing and General Electric (GE)—leading aerospace and defense companies that served as the face of alleged corporate welfare to anti-bank critics in recent years. Last week, EXIM said...
more(Reuters, Paris, 9 June 2020) France launched what it billed a 15-billion-euro ($17 billion) support plan for its aerospace industry on Tuesday, accelerating research on a green jetliner and warning 100,000 French jobs could be lost due to the coronavirus crisis. The plans - which include 7...
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...
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