(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 January 2018) In a recent opinion article, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki noted that the Secretary-General of the OECD...
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2018/01/31
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Fox Business, Dublin, 22 January 2018) Boeing and Airbus officials have signaled optimism that problems denting their access to government-backed plane financing are nearing resolution. Boeing and Airbus last year both delivered a record number of planes. Though commercial financing for the...
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2018/01/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(New York Times, LONG PHU, Vietnam, 26 January 2018) With help from a Kremlin-connected Russian bank, Vietnam is building a coal-fired power plant called Long Phu 1 that will produce an estimated 5.4 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, generating enough electricity to power millions of homes...
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2018/01/31
Country: Australia, France, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 January 2018) The Australian export credit agency (ECA), Efic, has been armed with A$3.8bn to help companies sell military equipment overseas. Over the years, ECAs have been heavily criticised for selling arms which often help prop up tyrannical regimes and...
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2018/01/31
Country: Brazil, Canada, Mexico
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Corruption
Member: Above Ground
(Hill Times, Ottawa, 15 January 2018) When allegations emerged last fall that the Mexican president’s 2012 election campaign was funded in part by a subsidiary of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, the news barely made headlines in Canada. But this recent development in the far-...
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2018/01/31
Country: Canada, Russia
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
(Financial Post, Toronto, 11 January 2018) Canadian exporters with long histories of doing business in Russia are urging the federal government to help them compete with foreign rivals that they insist are profiting from Ottawa’s particularly rigid approach to international sanctions. Companies...
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2018/01/31
Country: Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, London, 9 January 2018) Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is seeking a $2 billion loan from Japan’s export-credit agency, three people with knowledge of the matter said, as competition for a role in potentially the world’s largest initial share offering heats up. A deal would make the Japanese...
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2017/12/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(New York Times, Washington, 19 December 2017) Two Republican senators broke with their party to block President Trump’s nominee to lead the Export-Import Bank, a setback for the White House that reflects deep divisions in the Republican Party over the role that the government should play in...
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2017/12/31
Country: USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track
(Kallanish Energy News, Greensburg, 18 December 2017) Dakota Access Pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) and Florida-based environmental publication Earth First Journal are arguing in federal court whether something called a “social movement” can be sued. ETP in August filed a...
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2017/12/31
Country: Turkey, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption, Transparency
(Newsweek, Washington, 20 June 2017) Federal investigators probing the lobbying work of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn are focused in part on the role of Bijan Kian, Flynn’s former business partner, according to a person interviewed by the FBI. In private conversations with...
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2017/12/31
Country: Canada, South Africa
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
Member: Above Ground
(The Walrus, Toronto, 19 December 2017) Export Development Canada lends foreign buyers billions of taxpayer dollars. Critics say it's knowingly banking some of the world's worst regimes. EDC has perfected the art of lending billions of taxpayer dollars to scandal-ridden foreign buyers. In May...
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2017/11/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, London, 29 November 2017) U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said London is “extremely well-placed’’ to win a planned stock exchange listing by Saudi Arabia Oil Co., as she competes against U.S. President Donald Trump for the coveted initial share sale by the world’s largest crude...
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2017/10/29
Country: Canada, France, USA
Issue: Nuclear, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Mining Technology, London, 3 October 2017) GoviEx Uranium has received expressions of interest from export credit agencies and project finance banks to arrange $220m of senior debt financing for the construction of the Madaouela uranium project in Niger. Conditions for the debt financing...
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2017/09/30
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Washington Post, Washington, 28 September 2017) The Commerce Department signaled its intent to impose a 219 percent tariff on Canadian-made jetliners, claiming aircraft maker Bombardier has been unfairly propped up by the Canadian government... But critics of the decision say Boeing itself...
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2017/09/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Forbes, 17 September 2017) Former Representative Scott Garrett is on record, as reported by Politico, as committed to supporting President Trump’s commitment to having a “‘functional’ export credit agency” while seeing Ex-Im, which provides trade financing to American exporters, "reformed and...
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