(Cistran Finance, Chicago, 11 June 2014) A list of 23 banks and ECAs that will be financing the construction of SOCAR’s STAR oil refinery in the Aliaga port in Turkey was announced in an official ceremony last week. The list includes the following ECAs: Export Development Canada, JBIC, NEXI,...
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2014/11/27
Country: Canada, Italy, Japan
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
2014/11/27
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Freight News, Piraeus Greece, 24 October 2014) The United States has challenged the Japanese government over moves to ramp up exports of coal-fired power technology and to offer cheap loans to lure buyers, according to a U.S. source with direct knowledge of the matter... Japan’s shipments of...
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2014/09/23
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change
(Hindu Business Line, Mumbai, 1 September 2014) The State Bank of India (SBI) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) signed a dual-currency loan agreement of $152 million. “The loan is co-financed with the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd amounting to ¥13.5 billion ($131 million)...
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2014/07/29
Country: China
(ECNS.CN, Beijing, 24 July 2014) China Export and Credit Insurance Corp (Sinosure) insured $229.12 billion in the first half of 2014, a year-on-year increase of 19.2 percent, the China Securities Journal reported on Tuesday. Short-term export credit insurance accounted for $181.38 billion; $7....
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2014/05/31
Country: Australia, China, Italy, Japan, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
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(Huffington Post, 2 May 2014) The Nation, Huffington Post,...
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2014/05/31
Country: China, USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Moscow, 30 April 2014) Chinese investors are committed to financing part of Novatek's $27 billion Russian gas project, ensuring it has sufficient backing despite losing U.S. support because of sanctions, the company said on Wednesday. The U.S. export credit agency Ex-Im pulled out in...
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2014/04/30
Country: Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain, Turkey, USA
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Istanbul, 22 April 2014) Azerbaijan’s state oil company, Socar, is in the final stages of negotiations for a $3.5 billion loan to help build a refinery in Turkey, said Kenan Yavuz, chief executive for the company’s Turkish unit... Most of the $3.5 billion package, arranged by the...
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2014/04/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Oil Change International, Washington, 22 April 2014) Japanese ECA, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is the world’s...
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2014/03/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Business Spectator, Melbourne, 21 March 2014) Gina Rinehart has secured backing from a group of global banks and export credit agencies for a new $US10 billion ($A11.0bn) iron-ore mine that can feed Asian steel demand, just as miners like BHP Billiton scale back investments amid a broad...
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2014/03/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Herald Sun, Melbourne, 18 March 2014) Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have been granted a $110 million “soft loan” from taxpayers to help expand the world’s biggest copper mine, in Chile. Australia’s export credit agency, the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, has extended the...
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2013/12/31
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(International Business Times, 20 December 2013, Washington) Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc., General Electric and Atlas Copco AB, a Swedish industrial holding company, are the latest beneficiaries of credit financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The federal government’s export-...
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2013/12/31
Country: China
(International Financing Review, 14 December 2013, London) Standard Chartered has come up with a novel way of transferring the risk of lending to unrated Chinese exporters and importers to the capital markets. The bank has brought two structured financings to the international markets...
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2013/11/30
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
(Lanka Business Online, 28 November 2013, Colombo) Sri Lanka has US$1.9 billion of new bilateral and multilateral commitments up to September 2013 led by China with export credit from other countries also showing increases, a finance ministry report showed. China has committed US$517.9 million...
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2013/11/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
(Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2013, Sydney) Australia's export credit agency wrote more loans in the 2013 financial year than the year before, despite almost halving the total amount of taxpayers' funds it provided. The mining sector comprised almost half of its financial assistance, with...
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2013/11/30
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Herald Review, 15 November 2013, Decatur) After a year as gloomy as the bottom of a mineshaft, Caterpillar Inc. woke up to a bright ray of sunshine Thursday. The U.S. Export-Import Bank wants to say “yes” to making a $694 million loan that will help support more than 3,000 jobs, including...
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