(Mining Technology, London, 19 February 2025) Alliance Nickel is advancing its NiWest Nickel-Cobalt Project in Western Australia, which could produce 20,000 tonnes of nickel annually over the first 12 years. Despite a challenging nickel market, the project’s definitive feasibility study shows...
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2025/03/04
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia, Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
2025/03/04
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
Charged Affairs, Washington, 23 February 2025) The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID and foreign aid programs could reshape U.S. global influence, with a focus on strategic investments over humanitarian assistance. The shift may open opportunities for China to expand its influence,...
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2025/03/04
Country: Australia, Brazil, Canada, USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Stockhead, Perth, |24 February) Meteoric Resources continues advancing its Caldeira project in Brazil, projecting industry-leading low operating costs and high potential returns. Despite a dip in share price, the company plans to finalize its pre-feasibility study soon and aims for production...
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2025/03/04
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(EXIM, Washington, 25 February 2025) The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. hosted Export Finance Australia to discuss enhancing their collaboration on critical minerals and supply chain shifts away from China. Both agencies plan to leverage the Single Point of Entry (SPE) initiative for...
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2025/03/04
Country: China
Issue: European Union
(Global Trade Review, 26 February 2025) Experts call on the EU to establish a dedicated unit to better coordinate export credit agencies and development finance institutions, boosting the Global Gateway Initiative’s €300bn global infrastructure ambitions. A report highlights the need for a...
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2025/03/03
Country: Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Australia Mining, Victoria, 27 February 2025) Queensland Government Boosts Resources Investment with $10 Million Funding Initiative. The program aims to enhance exploration and development in the mining sector, supporting job creation and economic growth. This funding is part of a broader...
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2025/01/01
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: BRIC countries, Debt, OECD
(ODI Global, London, 14 December 2023) This year old report explores the development of Sinosure as an institution and its involvement in China’s overseas lending and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This report makes two main contributions. First, it examines an understudied aspect of China...
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2024/11/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change
(Washington Examiner, Washington, 10 November 2024) The U.S. Export-Import Bank faces scrutiny over a $2.5 billion giveaway to green energy development in Angola that benefits foreign companies with ties to China and the Angolan president, despite the bank’s claims that it will support...
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2024/11/30
Country: Australia, Canada, Norway, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 21 November 2024) Today at the conclusion of the OECD Export Credit Group negotiations, participating nations failed to reach an agreement on fossil fuel finance, despite scientists’ repeated calls for urgent climate action. While no formal conclusion has been...
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2024/11/30
Country: China, Russia
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Arms Trade, Human Rights
(Kyive Independent, Kyiv, 6 November 2024) Chinese state-owned company Sinosure that insures export supplies against the risk of non-payment has begun to refuse to cooperate with Russian entrepreneurs, Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported on Nov. 5, citing four unnamed sources from importing...
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2024/11/30
Country: China, France, Italy, Korea, United Kingdom
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Barrons/AFP, Paris, 15 November 2024) French energy giant TotalEnergies, recipient of Italian (& French?) ECA funding, was aware of accusations of abuses committed by soldiers charged with protecting its gas site in Mozambique as early as 2021. "Complaints of extortion, disappearances and...
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2024/11/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
(Economic Times, Delhi, 21 November 2024) China is bolstering its export sector to counter potential tariff hikes by the incoming Trump administration. The nine-point plan includes expanded export credit insurance, increased financing for international trade, and support for cross-border e-...
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2024/10/31
Country: China, Turkey
Issue: Debt
(Global Construction Review, London, 15 October 2024) After 9 years of striving, the government of Uganda yesterday signed a contract with Turkish contractor Yapı Merkezi to build the first section of the country’s standard gauge railway. The €2.7bn deal was formalised in the capital Kampala...
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2024/10/31
Country: China, France, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Mongabay, Menlo Park, 17 October 2024) A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27...
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2024/09/30
Country: China, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(BNN Bloomberg, Toronto, 7 September 2024) The UK has stepped up business in French-speaking West and Central Africa as it seeks new frontiers for its exports. UKEF was backing transactions in francophone Africa worth a cumulative £1 billion ($1.3 billion) at the end of the 2023-4 financial...
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