(FOE USA, Washington, 20 April 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic has forced large portions of the population to stay home and left millions out of work. Farmworkers, grocery workers, medical professionals, and other frontline workers are forced to put themselves at risk in order to provide everyone...
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2020/04/30
Country: France, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
2020/03/30
Country: France, Spain, USA
Issue: Aircraft
(Aviation Today, Rockville MD, 24 March 2020) Airbus partially resumed assembly and production work in France and Spain on March 23, while Boeing will temporarily suspend the majority of its U.S.-based airplane production activity beginning March 25 as the two commercial aerospace giants...
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2020/01/29
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
(Reuters, London, 28 January 2020) Airbus faces a record $4 billion fine and lower 2019 profits after unveiling a preliminary deal with French, British and U.S. authorities following a crippling three-year probe into allegations of bribery and corruption over jetliner sales. The European...
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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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2018/08/29
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Korea
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 22 August 2018) Peruvian miner Minsur has secured US$900mn in project financing for its Mina Justa copper mine. The lenders are: BBVA Continental, BBVA, Banco de Crédito del Perú, Crédit Agricole, Export Development Canada (EDC), Export Finance and Insurance...
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2018/07/27
Country: Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Daily Monitor, Kampala, 24 July 2018) Uganda hurriedly firmed up plans to revamp the country’s defunct airline in March 2019, after signing a purchase agreement for four Canadian Regional Jets 900 series, while at the Farnborough airshow in the United Kingdom. Uganda also signed a memorandum...
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2018/05/31
Country: France, Germany, Iran, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: European Union, Nuclear
(Reuters, Paris/Brussels, 3 May 2018) France, Britain and Germany all say they will stay in the deal even if the United States withdraws, and try to protect and foster European trade and ECA support with Iran, which has soared since the European Union lifted most of its economic sanctions. Iran...
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2018/02/28
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(The Economist, Singapore, 8 February 2018) A management shake-out may reawaken national rivalries at the European aerospace giant. “The success of Airbus is intimately linked to the success of John [Leahy],” says Eric Schulz, successor to John Leahy, who has been chief salesman for the...
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2018/01/31
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Fox Business, Dublin, 22 January 2018) Boeing and Airbus officials have signaled optimism that problems denting their access to government-backed plane financing are nearing resolution. Boeing and Airbus last year both delivered a record number of planes. Though commercial financing for the...
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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
(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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2017/10/29
Country: Canada, France, USA
Issue: Nuclear, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Mining Technology, London, 3 October 2017) GoviEx Uranium has received expressions of interest from export credit agencies and project finance banks to arrange $220m of senior debt financing for the construction of the Madaouela uranium project in Niger. Conditions for the debt financing...
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2017/06/30
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Your Oil & Gas News, Edinburgh, 1 June 2017) Yamal LNG announced the signing of agreements with several European banks, inter alia Raiffeisen Bank International AG and Intesa Sanpaolo for up to 425 million with insurance coverage provided by the Swedish export credit agency EKN and the...
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2016/09/30
Country: France, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Space News, Vermont, 14 September 2016) The OneWeb constellation, with a total of 900 low orbiting satellites whose capital cost has been estimated at around $3.5 billion including ground spares, is seeking export-credit agency support. But the U.S. Export-Import Bank remains on the sidelines...
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2016/06/29
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Global Trade Magazine, Newport Beach, 27 June 2016) GE has announced an agreement under which COFACE, the French export credit agency, will provide an additional line of credit for gas turbine combined cycle projects that require export financing in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and...
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2016/04/30
Country: France, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: World Trade Organization
(Space News, London, 15 April 2016) Britain’s export-credit agency may be the most attractive source of satellite project financing that almost none one has heard of or uses. While its more active counterparts in the United States and France are most comfortable guaranteeing loans only when a...
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