(GAO, Washington, 15 April 2015) In six reports on the U.S. Export-Import Bank issued since March 2013, GAO presented findings and made 16 recommendations to improve Ex-Im's operations, summarized in this testimony in three broad areas: (1) risk management, (2) underwriting and fraud prevention...
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2015/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption
(US Justice Dept., Washington, 22 April 2015) A former loan officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) pleaded guilty in federal court today for accepting more than $78,000 in bribes in return for recommending the approval of unqualified loan applications to the bank,...
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2015/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, OECD, World Trade Organization
(The Hill, Washington, 15 April 2015) During congressional hearings, Republicans criticized Treasury Department officials for not negotiating with foreign governments to end subsidized export credit programs, as was mandated in the 2012 reauthorization bill. The Secretary of the Treasury had...
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2015/03/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Reuters, Washington, 19 March 2015) A bipartisan plan to save the U.S. Export-Import Bank seeks to extend the bank's term until 2019, increase lending to small businesses and overturn limits on coal-fired power plants projects, according to documents released on Thursday.
2015/03/31
Country: USA
Issue: Corruption
(FBI, Washington, 16 March 2015) United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on February 20, 2015, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a 23-count indictment charging 3 individuals with conspiracy, fraud and money laundering offenses related to a multi-...
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2015/03/31
Country: Australia, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 26 March 2015) The Abbott government has again put itself on a collision course with US President Barack Obama, this time over government funding for coal-fired power plants. After adopting a contrary position to the US on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank...
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2015/03/31
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: BRIC countries
(Financial Post, Johannesburg, 2 March 2015) Export Development Canada is providing South Africa’s national rail operator with a US$450-million loan to finance a major purchase of rail equipment from Quebec-based Bombardier. The rail operator, Transnet SOC Ltd., recently awarded a US$1.2-...
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2015/02/28
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Country: Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
(ECA Watch, Brussels, 18 February 2015) ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights:...
2015/02/28
Country: Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Morning Star, London, 20 February 2015) Recently released HSBC files reveal that the bank's Swiss branch held accounts for Jeffrey Tesler, a London lawyer...
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2015/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Reuters, Washington, 18 February 2015) Clients and supporters of the U.S. export credit agency will descend on Capitol Hill next week to urge lawmakers to keep the Export Import Bank open as critics ramp up efforts to shut it down. A temporary lifeline extended last year will run out on June...
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2015/01/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Washington Examiner, 20 January 2015) President Obama did not discuss the Export-Import Bank in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, although the bank faces a June expiration of its charter... Obama has called the bank "critical" to U.S. businesses... It has come under fire in recent...
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2015/01/29
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Mondaq, Washington, 9 January 2015) Satellite industry becomes fastest growing of U.S. Ex-Im Bank’s credit sectors, with growth from $50m to $1b in loans per year since 2010; Export Credit Agency of Russia announces plans to actively support ILS ; and Export Development Canada provides €123m...
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2015/01/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Channel Partners, Arizona, 9 January 2015) After more than a half-century of animosity between the U.S. government and the Communist regime under Fidel Castro, and now his brother Raúl, the Obama administration moved last month to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba and create a framework...
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2014/12/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(24/7 Wall Street, London, 9 December 2014) Boeing on Tuesday morning released its 2015 aircraft finance market outlook. The headline number is $124 billion and the forecast amount for 1300 new commercial deliveries in 2015, up from $115 billion in 2014. The company’s Boeing Capital Corporation...
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2014/12/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(PRNewswire-USNewswire, Washington, 11 December 2014) The Export-Import Bank of the United States will guarantee a $50 million loan to finance the export of 55 American made bridge sets to Cameroon and support 200 U.S. jobs. The loan, extended by Société Générale to Cameroon's Ministry of...
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