(Climate Progress, Washington, 7 July 2014) Last December the Export-Import Bank announced it would stop financing coal-fired power plants abroad, with a few exceptions in the poorest countries in the world. Now, as political pressure in the US Congress puts the bank’s future in to question,...
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2014/08/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade
(US General Accounting Office, Washington, 28 August 2014) The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) has policies for monitoring the end use of defense articles and services it finances, including documentation requirements that are reflected in its financing agreements with...
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2014/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(General Accounting Office, Washington, 25 June 2014) The U.S. Export-Import Bank has addressed recommendations GAO made in two 2013 reports that related to processes for estimating losses, managing financial risks, and forecasting outstanding financial commitments (exposure).
2014/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(US General Accounting Office, Washington, 8 July 2014) From 2008 through 2013, the US Ex-Im Bank (ExIm) and European ECAs supported 26% of large commercial aircraft deliveries. Since 2004, Ex-Im financing support for Boeing wide-body jet exports has generally increased, and, in fiscal years...
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2014/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption
(Wall Street Journal, Washington, 23 June 2014) The U.S. Export-Import Bank has suspended or removed four officials in recent months amid investigations into allegations of gifts and kickbacks, as well as attempts to steer federal contracts to favored companies.
2014/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 June 2014) The ongoing battle waged by radical completely free market Republicans to close the U.S. Export Import Bank escalated this month, fuelled by Wall Street Journal revelations of alleged cronyism, the release of Ex-Im's...
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2014/06/30
Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Washington, 16 June 2014) The United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands will float a plan this week requiring new coal-fired power plants to meet a carbon pollution standard in order to receive public funding from the world's wealthiest countries, according to a draft seen by...
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2014/06/30
Country: France, USA
Issue: Corruption
(US Dept. of Justice, Washington, 34 <july 2014) The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that an $80 million False Claims Act judgment was entered against BNP Paribas for submitting false claims for export payment guarantees issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. BNP Paribas...
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2014/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Export Import Bank, Washington, June 2014) Ex-Im's annual competitiveness report provides useful statistics about volumes of ECA financing not published by the OECD over the last few years, by OECD and non-OECD countries, by type of financing, trends, etc. For example:
Fig.1 p.3 GLOBAL...
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2014/05/31
Country: Australia, China, Italy, Japan, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
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(Huffington Post, 2 May 2014) The Nation, Huffington Post,...
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2014/05/31
Country: China, USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Moscow, 30 April 2014) Chinese investors are committed to financing part of Novatek's $27 billion Russian gas project, ensuring it has sufficient backing despite losing U.S. support because of sanctions, the company said on Wednesday. The U.S. export credit agency Ex-Im pulled out in...
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2014/04/30
Country: Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain, Turkey, USA
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Istanbul, 22 April 2014) Azerbaijan’s state oil company, Socar, is in the final stages of negotiations for a $3.5 billion loan to help build a refinery in Turkey, said Kenan Yavuz, chief executive for the company’s Turkish unit... Most of the $3.5 billion package, arranged by the...
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2014/04/30
Country: USA
Issue: Aircraft
(Wall Street Journal, London, 30 April 2014) U.S. sanctions on Russia in response to the country's threats and incursions against Ukraine have created uncertainty over aerospace transactions, from plane purchases to satellite launches... "I see the market now as frozen for lease and financing...
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2014/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Financial Times, Washington, 20 April 2014) The Export-Import Bank of the United States, which provides finance for foreign purchases of US products, faces a fresh battle to survive... That threatens some of its biggest beneficiaries in corporate America, from Boeing to Caterpillar and General...
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2014/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(USNewswire, Washington, 18 March 2014) The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) today announced its cross-marketing partnership with thousands of credit and finance professionals who are represented by the Finance, Credit and International...
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