(Reuters, Tokyo, 1 May 2020) Japan’s government, along with JBIC, has long been criticized for backing exports of coal-power technology and equipment by environmental groups as the world moves to cut emissions to combat climate change. However, JBIC Governor Tadashi Maeda was quoted as saying...
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2020/04/30
Country: China, Germany, Turkey, United Kingdom
Issue: Debt, European Union
(The Asset, 22 April 2020) European Union rules on state aid to private sector companies, including short term export credits, have been suspended until December as national governments step up financial packages to rescue their corporations. A recent report notes that the Covid-19 crisis has...
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2020/04/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Debt
(American Reporter, Boston, 26 April 2020) COVID-19 has drastically affected the economy. Exporters and Importers are unable to conduct business because of the transport restrictions. Australia’s export credit agency (ECA), Export Finance Australia has come ahead to help the exporters. It...
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2020/03/31
Country: China, India, USA
Issue: BRIC countries
(Sputnik, Moscow/New Delhi 3 March 2020) The US and China are still engaged in a trade dispute, and the spread of the coronavirus makes a deal less likely, at least in the short-term. The Indian Finance Ministry has revealed that amid the US-China trade war, its exports to the two countries...
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2020/03/29
Country: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, 8 March 2020) Moves by some of the world’s biggest banks to end coal financing for the sake of the planet was supposed to create major headaches for companies like Whitehaven Coal Ltd. Yet there was the Australian miner on a conference call last month announcing the refinancing and...
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2020/02/29
Country: Canada, China, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export Import Bank of Korea, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sinosure
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Space Daily / AFP, Paris, 30 January 2020) Rich nations are funnelling cash through government-backed financial institutions to provide $30 billion to fossil fuel projects each year that "run counter to the Paris Agreement", a new analysis showed Thursday. The export credit agencies (ECAs) of...
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2020/01/29
Country: Japan
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Nation, Lagos, 20 January 2020) The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has appointed one of Japan’s leading banks and the core unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group – Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and one of Nigeria’s leading banks – Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, as...
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2019/12/31
Country: China, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(Zdnet, York PA, 26 December 2019) Huawei Technologies has lashed out at a Wall Street Journal report that suggests the tech giant's success is fuelled by billions of dollars in financial support from the Chinese government, arguing that its ties are no different from any other "private company...
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2019/12/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
(The Daily Star, Dhaka, 2 December 2019) The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has arranged USD1.3 billion financing for Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to set up its Ghorasal Potash Urea Fertilizer Project (GPUFP). This is the largest financing backed by an...
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2019/12/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Space News, Washington, 21 December 2019) The year-end spending package President Trump signed into law late December 20 includes a 7 year re-authorization for EXIM, a lending agency that has been largely sidelined as a source of cheap financing for U.S. satellite deals since Congress let Ex-...
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2019/11/29
Country: France, India, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Hydrocarbons Technology, London, 27 November 2019) The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $400m loan to support construction of the integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and liquefaction facility in Mozambique. The Mozambique LNG Area 1 Project is led by the French...
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2019/11/29
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade, BRIC countries
(Fox News, Washington, 22 October 2019) Republican commentator Newt Gingrich in a Fox News opinion article argues that "In the age of Huawei, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and China’s state-sponsored companies, we need the United States Export-Import Bank more than ever. This is a big...
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2019/11/29
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Politico, Washington, 5 November 2019) EXIM has signed an agreement with Japan’s export credit agency, NEXI, that allows either agency to act as the lead on co-financing projects. Under the previous co-financing agreement, only Ex-Im could act as the lead. The expanded scope is expected to...
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2019/11/29
Country: Belgium, China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Debt
(Daily Nation, Nairobi, 31 October 2019) In its Kenya Economic Update for October 2019, to be released today, the World Bank notes that, “with 43% of domestic debt expected to mature within a year, the government could face challenges in rolling over such bonds in an environment of no interest...
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2019/10/30
Country: China, USA
Issue: Arms Trade, BRIC countries
(Newsweek, Washington, 21 October 2019) Newt Gingrich - Opinion (How the Republican right sees EXIM): In the age of Huawei, the Belt and Road Initiative, and China's state-sponsored companies, we...
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