(Morning Consult, Washington, 9 June 2016) The Obama administration’s nominee for the Export-Import Bank’s board of directors became the latest pawn in the ongoing floor fight between Senate Democrats and Republicans over executive nominations. On Thursday, Senate Banking Committee Chairman...
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2016/06/29
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Global Trade Magazine, Newport Beach, 27 June 2016) GE has announced an agreement under which COFACE, the French export credit agency, will provide an additional line of credit for gas turbine combined cycle projects that require export financing in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and...
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2016/06/28
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Business Standard, New Delhi, 17 June 2016) A US-based think tank today said the Bangladesh-India Maitree project could effectively end up in a financial mess. The coal-based power plant proposed to be built near the city of Khulna, close to the Sundarbans mangrove forest, is a joint venture...
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2016/05/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption, Human Rights
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 11 May 2016) The U.S. Export-Import Bank loves to remind us that it is not a development agency, and, therefore, is not held to the same requirements as say a development finance institution. Even still, some of the governments that the head of Ex...
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2016/05/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Nuclear
(E&E Daily, Washington, 24 May 24 2016) A long-running political standoff over the Export-Import Bank of the United States threatens to delay billions of dollars in loans and other financial guarantees for overseas nuclear energy projects. Congress last year, after months of acrimony, voted...
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2016/05/31
Country: Argentina, Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(TFX News, Rome, 30 May 2016) Italian ECA SACE reopened its support of transactions with Argentina after the Italian undersecretary for development Ivan Scalfarotto last week announced guarantees for €700 million credit lines during his visit to the newly-liberalised Latin American country.
2016/04/30
Country: France, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: World Trade Organization
(Space News, London, 15 April 2016) Britain’s export-credit agency may be the most attractive source of satellite project financing that almost none one has heard of or uses. While its more active counterparts in the United States and France are most comfortable guaranteeing loans only when a...
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2016/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Trade & Export Finance, Washngton, 7 April 2016) Donald Trump seems to be on course to win the US Republican nomination. Trump, a conservative, is in favour of small government and it is believed would cheerfully close the US export credit agency, US Ex-Im Bank if he could. And although...
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2016/03/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Houston Chronicle, Houston, 3 March 2016) The fight to empower a government agency that ensures U.S. companies can compete around the world, and even makes money for the taxpayer, is sadly not over. Ex-Im can't close any deals exceeding $10 million because of conservative opposition in the...
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2016/03/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Seattle Times, Seattle, 22 March 2016) The obscure U.S. Export-Import Bank moved to center stage in Washington’s Democratic presidential contest, as Hillary Clinton and her allies chided Bernie Sanders for opposing the bank, which plays an outsized role in this state. Speaking Tuesday at the...
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2016/02/28
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Srijan Lokhit Samiti, 9 February 2016) The Export Import Bank of the United States, a financer of Reliance’s Sasan Power Project in Madhya Pradesh, confirmed serious labour rights violations at the project, including 19 deaths. In the report “...
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2016/01/28
Country: Brazil, Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 11 January 2016) Thomas L. Friedman's "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century" suggests that a level playing field has emerged in the world of global commerce, affording competitors equal opportunity. But this analysis ignores government intrusion...
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2016/01/27
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(TXF News, 21 January 2016) In the century of their existence, export credit agencies (ECAs) have rarely been subjected to the level of public scrutiny they find themselves under today... Their advocates claim export credits allow impoverished importers to purchase goods that might otherwise be...
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2016/01/27
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Export Import Bank, Washington, 14 January 2016) The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) released its...
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2015/12/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Wall Street Journal, Washington, 9 December 2015) Legislation signed by President Barack Obama on Friday resurrected the U.S. Export-Import Bank and ended a five-month lapse that revealed far stronger bipartisan backing for the agency than the pitched battle to shut it down suggested. The...
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