(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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2024/08/31
Issue: BRIC countries
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 July 2024) There was a rebound in export credit agency activity in Sub-Saharan Africa last year, as agencies struck big-ticket deals across infrastructure and renewable energy sectors, fresh data shows. In its annual State of the Industry Report, the Berne Union...
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2024/08/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Common Dreams, Portland, 7 August 2024) Climate advocates on Wednesday formally urged the Biden administration to instruct the United States' export credit agency to stop financially supporting activities that are fueling the climate emergency. "Over the last two centuries, human-caused...
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2024/08/31
Country: Ukraine
(Ukraine Business News, Kyiv, 26 August 2024) The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) is actively seeking opportunities to expand export insurance instruments to cover war risks for privatization objects, said the head of SPFU, Vitaliy Koval. The SPFU is also appealing to international...
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2024/08/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Renewables
(Smart Water Magazine, Madrid, 29 August 2024) The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) approved a historic $1.6 billion direct loan to support the construction of 65 solar photovoltaic energy mini-grids with energy storage facilities that will power water...
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2024/08/31
Country: Canada, United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Debt, Transparency
(Guardian, London, 20 August 2024) Canada’s state-backed export credit agency is reportedly nursing steep losses after lending debt-ridden Thames Water as much as a billion Canadian dollars. The British utility, which has said it could run out of cash by next June, received five loans from...
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2024/08/31
Issue: Renewables
(Hellenic Shipping News, Cyprus, 12 August 2024) From mitigating risks associated with financing large-scale maritime projects to promoting sustainability and compliance, export finance plays a pivotal role in the shipping industry. Shipping moves 11 billion tons of goods each year, amounting...
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2024/08/31
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 27 August 2024) Countries are underdelivering on fossil-to-clean energy finance pledge. This report analyzes the progress made by Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) signatories on shifting international public finance away...
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2024/08/31
Country: Spain
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 5 August 2024) Spain’s export credit agency Cesce has agreed to cover a €500mn green syndicated loan for Iberdrola, backing its renewable expansion plans globally. The 15-year facility will help fund solar photovoltaic, wind and battery projects in the US, Italy...
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2024/08/31
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Renewables
(Arab News, Jeddah, 7 August 2024) RIYADH: Arab nations have attracted $406 billion in investments from 356 foreign and regional companies in the oil and gas sector over the past 22 years, according to recent data from the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corp., also known as Dhaman...
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2024/08/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Khmer Times, Phnom Penh, 7 August 2024) The UK Export Finance (UKEF), a United Kingdom government ministerial department and the nation’s export credit agency, Tuesday expressed the willingness to finance Cambodia’s infrastructure projects and public services to attract investment from the...
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2024/08/23
Country: Canada, United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Transparency
(Water Briefing, London, 10 August 2024) Canada’s state-backed export credit agency is reportedly nursing steep losses after lending debt-ridden Thames Water as much as a billion Canadian dollars. The British utility, which has said it could run out of cash by next June, received five loans...
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2024/07/31
Country: Spain
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Renewables
(Reuters, Madrid, 15 July 2024) Spanish ECA Cesce has moved to support Siemens Energy's (ENR1n.DE) wind turbine division, Siemens Gamesa, as part of a 1.2 billion euro ($1.31 billion) guarantee facility. The Spanish state's backstop will be up to 600 million euros, or 50% of the package to...
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2024/07/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Debt
(Harris Sliwoski, Los Angeles, 17 July 2024) US law firm accuses Sinosure of pressuring clients to pay off Chinese factories for allegedly owed money. They claim the Chinese state-owned export credit insurance company actively pursues overseas companies for alleged unpaid debts on behalf of...
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