(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: Australia, Spain
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
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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2024/07/30
Country: Australia, France
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(DeSmog, Seattle, 26 June 2024) Campaigners are increasingly taking out lawsuits against the funders of fossil fuels and other climate-harming activities,...
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2024/07/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Common Approaches, Transparency
(US Congress, Washington, 24 June 2024) The US Congress House Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions, led by Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03), held a hearing entitled “The Role of the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank...
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2024/06/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Nigerian Tribune online, Ibadan, 26 June 2024) Civil society organisations have called on the Chinese government to rescind its decisions to build crude oil pipeline across East African countries. In an open letter to the Chinese Embassy’s Charge d’affaire Zhang Yi, Smith Nwokocha of StopEACOP...
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2024/06/30
Country: Brazil, China
ECAs: Sinosure
[BNAMERICAS, Santiago, 10 June 2024) Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras is tightening its financial ties with China. The federal oil giant's actions in this area have gathered momentum since the beginning of 2023, when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva assumed the country's presidency....
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2024/06/30
Country: Australia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 4 June 2024) Perth-headquartered Woodside Energy has secured a US$1.45bn loan package from Japan’s export credit agency and a group of private lenders, backing an LNG development off the Australian coast. As part of the deal, the Japan Bank for International...
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2024/06/30
Country: Australia, Canada, China, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Mining News, Perth, 19 June 2024) Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) is aiming to become the first global company to go from rare earths mining all the way through to metals. Rare earths are considered critical minerals and demand is set to surge, making ASX-listed ASM well-placed to...
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2024/05/31
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
(The Standard, Hong Kong, 23 May 2024) The Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation signed a pact with the Guangdong Branch of China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, Sinosure, yesterday to strengthen cooperation on export credit insurance services for businesses across Guangdong...
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2024/05/31
Country: Japan
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Debt, Transparency
(IFC, Washington, 28 May 2024) The World Bank Group's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) today signed three-year cooperation agreements with Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), the official export credit agency of Japan, to...
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2024/05/31
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
(ABC News, Washington, 27 May 2024) After Lithuania allowed Taiwan's de-facto embassy in Vilnius to bear the name Taiwan, instead of Taipei — Taiwan's capital city — as preferred by Beijing, Lithuanian businesses saw their cargo shipments to and from China stranded, and they were warned by...
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