(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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2024/09/30
Country: Australia, Spain
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Renewables Now, 13 September 2024) Allied Green Ammonia Pty Ltd has hired Affinity Capital Group as a lead manager and strategic financial adviser to help it raise about USD 6.5 billion (EUR 5.90bn) for the development and construction of a large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia facility in...
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2024/09/30
Country: China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Renewables, Transparency
(Financial Times, New York, 23 September 2024) Coalition of 14 governments announces financing network for projects to provide raw materials required by tech industry. Western nations are directing their development finance and export credit agencies to work with private industry to support...
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2024/09/30
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, G7, Renewables
(Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, 25 September 2024) Fourteen countries this week took what they intended to be a big step in countering China’s dominance of critical minerals supply. But it’s unclear whether the initiative will restore competitiveness of Australian production...
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2024/07/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Debt
(Harris Sliwoski, Los Angeles, 17 July 2024) US law firm accuses Sinosure of pressuring clients to pay off Chinese factories for allegedly owed money. They claim the Chinese state-owned export credit insurance company actively pursues overseas companies for alleged unpaid debts on behalf of...
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2024/07/30
Country: China, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Asset, Hong Kong, 10 July 2024) Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a general agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) to provide a credit line of up to US$3 billion. The Japanese export credit agency will contribute US$$1.8 billion. The proceeds will...
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2024/07/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
(C-Span, Washington, 27 June 2024) Reta Jo Lewis, president and chair of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions on oversight of bank operations and U.S.-China economic...
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