(ClimateWire, Washington, 27 October 2015) The Obama administration has crafted a deal with Japan to restrict financing for overseas coal projects, several sources told ClimateWire. The agreement is aimed at influencing other members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
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2015/10/30
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
2015/10/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(New York Times, Washington, 27 November 2015) The House acted with rare bipartisanship on Tuesday to approve legislation that would reopen the federal Export-Import Bank, after a debate that underscored the split between the party’s traditional pro-business members and ascendant free-market...
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2015/09/30
Country: Canada, China, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(Global Capital, London, September 2015) The stated aim of the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), officially launched in June 2015, is to respond to a need for massive spending across Asia. But its creation has caused political controversy, with supporters arguing it...
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2015/09/30
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, OECD, World Trade Organization
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 28 September 2015) General Electric Co. is planning to build a state-of the art $265-million (U.S.) engine plant in Canada, as it shifts more business out of the United States following the collapse of U.S. government-sponsored export financing. GE said Monday it...
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2015/09/30
Country: China, Japan, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, London, 30 September 2015) China's promise to curb public funding of "highly polluting projects" has isolated Japan and increased the pressure to close a deal to phase-out coal export subsidies after months of wrangling. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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2015/08/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Fortune, 25 August 2015) In the months leading up to an expected vote to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import bank, Boeing did what large corporations with lots of cash and deft political maneuvering skills often do so well. It spoke softly and lobbied hard, scattering a few pro-Export-Import...
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2015/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Moodys, New York, 22 July 2015) Without the renewal of the US Export-Import Bank charter, which Congress allowed to expire at the end of June 2015, aerospace giant The Boeing Company will take the biggest blow, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report. Moody's does expect that the US...
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2015/07/29
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Renewables
(Bloomberg, Washington, 7 July 2015) The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s $1 billion program to boost India’s clean-energy industry has been suspended after the institution’s lending authority lapsed, an Indian government official working on the project said. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency...
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2015/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(New York Times, Washington, 25 & 29 July 2015) In a rare and fiery weekend session, the Senate voted on Sunday to resurrect the federal Export-Import Bank, handing the Republican Party’s most conservative wing a major defeat and setting up a showdown this week with House leaders divided...
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2015/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Bloomberg, Washington, 17 June 2015) General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt threatened to move U.S. jobs overseas if Congress doesn’t reauthorize the Export-Import Bank’s charter, which expires at the end of June. “We’re not going to lose this business,” Immelt said...
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2015/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Newsweek, Washington, 8 June 2015) The nearly 80-year-old federally run Ex-Im bank claims to cover its own costs—even generating a surplus—thanks to the interest it collects on loans. It claimed to support $27.4 billion in U.S. exports last year, less than 2 percent of all American exports....
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2015/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Al-Monitor, Washington, 11 June 2015) Companies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates together pulled in about $12 billion in trade financing over the past five years — 8.5% of the $141 billion global total — to help pay for nuclear reactors, industrial power generators and new fleets...
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2015/06/30
Country: Australia, France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade
(Military Technologies, Singapore, 1 June 2015) Satellite operators on June 1 expressed concern that the U.S. Export-Import Bank and France’s Coface, the world’s two most-active export agencies (ECAs) in funding satellite projects, might reduce their support for the industry in light of the...
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2015/05/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(TXFNews, Washington, 30 April 2015) The US’ House of Democrats today set in motion a process to bypass the House Republican leadership that would force a vote on legislation to the extend the charter of the country’s export credit agency, the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The move...
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2015/05/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Forbes, Washington, 15 June 2015) [Comment/blog from Adam Andrzejewski of American Transparency, Burr Ridge IL] Between now and the end of June, Congress will decide the fate of the federal agency, Export – Import Bank (Ex-Im) of the United States, either by doing nothing and letting the bank...
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