(Global Trade Review, London, 31 January 2018) The Australian export credit agency (ECA), Efic, has been armed with A$3.8bn to help companies sell military equipment overseas. Over the years, ECAs have been heavily criticised for selling arms which often help prop up tyrannical regimes and...
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2018/01/31
Country: Australia, France, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade
2018/01/31
Country: China
Issue: BRIC countries
(Xinhua, Phnom Penh, 11 January 2018) China eyes stronger ties with Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, the other five countries along the Lancang-Mekong river, pledging new loans, medical aids and scholarships to its neighbors. At the second Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) leaders...
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2018/01/31
Country: Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, London, 9 January 2018) Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is seeking a $2 billion loan from Japan’s export-credit agency, three people with knowledge of the matter said, as competition for a role in potentially the world’s largest initial share offering heats up. A deal would make the Japanese...
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2018/01/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Arms Trade
(Guardian, Sydney, 30 January 2018) The financial aspects of the Turnbull government’s plan to turn Australia into an arms exporting powerhouse are baffling, a leading defence expert says, but the decision to promote defence products overseas is welcome. Andrew Davies, the Australian Strategic...
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2017/12/31
Country: China, Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Nation, Bangkok, 30 December 2017) Already the world’s fifth-biggest greenhouse gas emitter, Indonesia is leading Southeast Asia’s boom in coal-fired power. Already one of the world’s biggest carbon polluters because of deforestation, Indonesia has back-pedalled on a pledge to cap coal...
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2017/12/31
Country: Brazil, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: End Coal Financing
(African Law & Business, London, 7 December 2017) London's Linklaters & US firm White & Case, together with local law firms, have shared the plaudits in agreeing financing of the US$4 billion Nacala Corridor rail and port project, which spans Mozambique & Malawi. It involves...
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2017/12/31
Country: Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Australian Financial Review, Sydney, 5 December 2017) Key project debt lenders have been giving their passports and travel insurers a workout as they troop up to Papua New Guinea to get to grips with what could be the region's biggest financing since the record US$20 billion deal for Ichthys...
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2017/12/31
Country: China, Iran
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 30 December 2017) China's Sinopec Engineering Company has signed a deal worth $1 billion to develop Abadan Oil Refinery, Iran's oldest crude processing facility in the southern oil-rich Khuzestan Province, the Chinese oil and gas group announced. According to Iranian...
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2017/11/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: End Coal Financing
(Global Capital, London, 1 November 2017) Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and a syndicate of lenders have provided a $2.73bn loan to finance the construction of a railway and upgrade a port in Mozambique, which will ensure the long term supply of coal to Japan from the African...
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2017/11/30
Country: Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: End Coal Financing
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(FOE Japan, Tokyo, 14 November 2017) On November 14, The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) disbursed the first installment of a loan for the 1000 MW Cirebon coal-fired power...
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2017/11/30
Country: Japan, Korea
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: End Coal Financing
(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 13 November 2017) Two years ago, OECD countries agreed to place limits on coal finance. Are countries following through on their commitments? The results are mixed. Most governments have stopped financing coal and shifted finance to clean energy...
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2017/11/30
Country: Australia, India
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ABC, Sydney, 22 November 2017) As the world grapples with the fossil fuel’s role in the future energy mix, Indian bilionaire Guatam Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine became a defining issue in Australia's Queensland election. An unnamed Adani Mining director was quoted as saying the...
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2017/10/31
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 October 2017) French ECA BPI has announced a €350 million guarantee contract with TechnipFMC for the development of the controversial $27 billion Yamal LNG project in Russia's far north. German Japanese,...
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2017/10/29
Country: China
(Quartz Media, New York, 11 October 2017) US president Donald Trump’s plans to slash the American government’s overseas spending has led to a rash of speculation that China could emerge as a new “global leader” on everything from free trade to the world’s fight to combat climate change,...
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2017/10/29
Country: Japan, United Kingdom
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Reinsurance News, Brighton, 5 October 2017) The agreement supports a framework for reinsurance underwriting between NEXI and UKEF, and enables cooperation between the pair in relation to the export of Japanese products via a reinsurance transaction that also involves UK exporters. "When a...
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