(Government of Ukraine, Kiev, 16 September 2024) The Export Credit Agency (ECA) has signed the first war risk insurance contract for an investment loan. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko during the event “Economic Policy of...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt
(Splash 247, Singapore, 17 September 2024) Harland & Wolff, the owner of the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, has announced that it will be entering into administration this week after failing to find new funding following the UKEF rejection of the company’s request for a £200m...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Transparency
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 9 February 2024) Trade finance subsidies, usually provided by export credit agencies, are the predominant tool of industrial policy. This column discusses the effect of the effective shutdown of the Export–Import Bank of the US (EXIM) from 2015—2019...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(Journal of Commerce, London, 26 September 2024) Cuba and Britain have agreed to reschedule $27.7 million of short-term debt owed by the communist-ruled island, opening the way for London to resume medium-term export credit cover to Havana.Britain's government-funded Export Credit Guarantee...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Bloomberg, 17 September 2024) A group of developed nations will make a new push to resolve differences amid fading prospects for a deal to restrict funding of foreign oil and gas projects by their export credit agencies. Restricting export credit agencies is seen as a potentially important...
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2024/09/30
Country: China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Renewables, Transparency
(Financial Times, New York, 23 September 2024) Coalition of 14 governments announces financing network for projects to provide raw materials required by tech industry. Western nations are directing their development finance and export credit agencies to work with private industry to support...
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2024/09/30
Country: Switzerland
ECAs: Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Member: Oil Change International
(Swiss Climate Rambles, Berkely, 23 September 2024) According to its own website, the Swiss government’s export risk insurance agency SERV (Swiss Export Risk...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Oil Change International
(Guardian, London, 24 September 2024) Rich countries could raise five times the money that poor countries are demanding in climate finance, through windfall taxes on fossil fuels, ending harmful subsidies and a wealth tax on billionaires, research has shown. Developing nations are asking for...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 24 September 2024) Rich countries can mobilize well over $5 trillion a year for climate action at home and abroad by ending fossil fuel handouts, making big polluters pay, and changing unfair global financial rules. This briefing, endorsed by 36 civil...
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2024/09/30
Country: Germany, Indonesia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Risk Net, London, 26 September 2024) Last year, Deutsche Bank was selected as sole hedge co-ordinator and hedge arranger for a landmark $3.1 billion project-financing deal in Indonesia. Deutsche Bank declined to say who the client was, only that it was a processing and petrochemical company...
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2024/09/30
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, G7, Renewables
(Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, 25 September 2024) Fourteen countries this week took what they intended to be a big step in countering China’s dominance of critical minerals supply. But it’s unclear whether the initiative will restore competitiveness of Australian production...
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2024/09/01
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Renewables
(UK Government, London, 8 August 2024) UK Export Finance (UKEF) and KUKE, the UK and Polish export credit agencies, have guaranteed a €249 million loan being arranged by Standard Chartered Bank for Turkish renewable energy investment company Kalyon Enerji, enabling the construction of Turkey’s...
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2024/09/01
Country: India
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Finnvera
(Hindu Business Line, Mumbai, 7 August 2024) Reliance Industries (RIL), India's largest private sector company, secured over $7 billion in various offshore financing initiatives in FY24, and it would continue to monitor financial markets to seize suitable opportunities for capital raising to...
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2024/08/31
Country: Ukraine
Issue: European Union
(Global Trade Review, London, 2 August 2024) The European Union has launched an inaugural risk-sharing facility for the export credit industry, with an initial €300mn pilot aimed at boosting SME exports to buyers in war-torn Ukraine. The move comes after years of discussions in Brussels over a...
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2024/08/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Transparency
(Insider Media, Manchester, 1 August 2024) Businesses across the UK benefited from £8.8bn of funding support underwritten by UK Export Finance (UKEF) in the 2023/24 financial year. As the UK government’s export credit agency, UKEF provides loans, guarantees and insurance to help businesses sell...
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