(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
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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2015/06/30
Country: Australia, France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade
(Military Technologies, Singapore, 1 June 2015) Satellite operators on June 1 expressed concern that the U.S. Export-Import Bank and France’s Coface, the world’s two most-active export agencies (ECAs) in funding satellite projects, might reduce their support for the industry in light of the...
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2014/12/31
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Moscow, 23 December 2014) Total SA (FP) and its partners will use a record 16 ice-breaking tankers to smash through floes en route to and from the Arctic’s biggest liquefied natural-gas development. They’re still looking for a way around a freeze in U.S. financing... The U.S. Export...
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2014/11/27
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(SpaceNews, Paris, 12 November 2014) The French government will reform its Coface export-credit agency to enable it to offer financial backing to satellite projects at the same rates as its American counterpart... Coface used to dominate export credits for satellite projects. But in the past...
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2014/06/30
Country: France, USA
Issue: Corruption
(US Dept. of Justice, Washington, 34 <july 2014) The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that an $80 million False Claims Act judgment was entered against BNP Paribas for submitting false claims for export payment guarantees issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. BNP Paribas...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Friends of the Earth France, Paris 10 February 2014) Tomorrow French President Francois Hollande will meet US President Barack Obama. Last year, Mr Obama announced the end of US public financing for new coal-fired power plants overseas, he now wants other developed countries to follow suit. In...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
Friends of the Earth France has urged President Hollande and his government to end French support for coal-fired power plants via its export credit agency Coface and the various multilateral development banks in which it plays a significant role...
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2013/09/30
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(SpaceNews, 23 September 2013, Paris) Representatives of the U.S. and French export-credit agencies gave no sign of pulling back on their support for their domestic rocket and satellite builders despite ongoing concerns by private-sector bankers that the agencies are funding projects that...
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2013/07/29
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change
(US State Department, Washington, 11 April 2013) Ministers and senior officials from more than a dozen donor countries met in Washington, D.C. on April 10-11 to discuss ways to meet the challenge of scaling up low-carbon investment in developing countries. The meeting was convened and chaired...
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2013/07/29
Country: Canada, France, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Spacenews, Glasgow, 18 July 2013) Britain’s export-credit agency, U.K. Export Finance, is unable to match the low-interest loans for satellite projects that its U.S., French, Canadian and Japanese counterparts offer because of national regulations that forbid interference with the private...
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