(International Business Times, 20 December 2013, Washington) Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc., General Electric and Atlas Copco AB, a Swedish industrial holding company, are the latest beneficiaries of credit financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The federal government’s export-...
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2013/12/31
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
2013/12/31
Country: China
(International Financing Review, 14 December 2013, London) Standard Chartered has come up with a novel way of transferring the risk of lending to unrated Chinese exporters and importers to the capital markets. The bank has brought two structured financings to the international markets...
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2013/11/30
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
(Lanka Business Online, 28 November 2013, Colombo) Sri Lanka has US$1.9 billion of new bilateral and multilateral commitments up to September 2013 led by China with export credit from other countries also showing increases, a finance ministry report showed. China has committed US$517.9 million...
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2013/11/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
(Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2013, Sydney) Australia's export credit agency wrote more loans in the 2013 financial year than the year before, despite almost halving the total amount of taxpayers' funds it provided. The mining sector comprised almost half of its financial assistance, with...
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2013/11/30
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Herald Review, 15 November 2013, Decatur) After a year as gloomy as the bottom of a mineshaft, Caterpillar Inc. woke up to a bright ray of sunshine Thursday. The U.S. Export-Import Bank wants to say “yes” to making a $694 million loan that will help support more than 3,000 jobs, including...
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2013/10/30
Country: China
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
(Vnesheconombank, Moscow, 22 October 2013) In the course of the 18th regular meeting of the Heads of State in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Premier of China’s State Council Li Keqiang, Vnesheconombank signed a framework agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China...
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2013/10/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Corruption
(Jubilee Australia, Sydney, 15 October 2013) In the past two weeks corporate Australia has been rocked by reports of bribes being paid by one of the country’s largest companies, Leighton Holdings. These bribes were supported by Australian taxpayers’ money, handed out by a little-known and...
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2013/09/30
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Heritage Foundation, 3 September 2013, Washington) For some lawmakers, corporate welfare is okay, unless it hurts someone in their district. Four lawmakers from Minnesota and Michigan are up in arms over a proposed $650 million financing deal for...
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2013/09/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Jubilee Australia has teamed up with a group of Sydney visual artists to create a visual arts installation for the Sydney Fringe Festival that profiles the themes in Jubilee Australia's 2012 report ...
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2013/09/01
Country: Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Sydney, 11 August 2013) Gina Rinehart, chairwoman of Roy Hill Holdings Pty, is seeking about A$4 billion (US$3.56 billion) from export credit agencies, Banks are betting the economics behind Rinehart’s 21-year-long ambition outweigh concern that $250 billion of planned mines will...
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2013/07/29
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change
(US State Department, Washington, 11 April 2013) Ministers and senior officials from more than a dozen donor countries met in Washington, D.C. on April 10-11 to discuss ways to meet the challenge of scaling up low-carbon investment in developing countries. The meeting was convened and chaired...
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2013/07/29
Country: Australia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Sydney, 18 July 2013) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart's $10 billion Roy Hill iron ore project has overcome key hurdles holding up debt negotiations, a move that could pave the way for the mine to start producing by September 2015, sources said on Thursday... Export credit...
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2013/07/29
Country: Canada, France, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Spacenews, Glasgow, 18 July 2013) Britain’s export-credit agency, U.K. Export Finance, is unable to match the low-interest loans for satellite projects that its U.S., French, Canadian and Japanese counterparts offer because of national regulations that forbid interference with the private...
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2013/07/29
Country: Australia
Issue: Climate Change
(Banktrack and Market Forces, Melbourne, 24 July 2013) Chinese banks have been notified that several Australian-based coal export projects could be ineligible for credit under China’s Green Credit Directive. A letter from international banking sector watchdog BankTrack and Australian...
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2013/06/26
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
(JBIC, Tokyo, 6 June 2013) The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a general agreement with the Ministry of Economic Development of the Government of Mongolian, offering the first export credit line of the equivalent of 8 billion yen (US$82 million). The credit line is...
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