(BN Americas, Santiago, 7 July 2023) Although the energy transition and ESG issues are gaining traction, many banks and credit export entities keep financing oil and gas undertakings, such as floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs) ordered by Brazil’s federal oil firm Petrobras...
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(Price of Oil, Washington, 18 July 2023) Last Friday, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) — the official export credit agency of the U.S.— insured USD 400 million in revolving credit facilities for global commodities trader Trafigura. The newly approved transaction will allow...
more(Reuters, Jakarta, 24 June 2023) Indonesia's state energy company Pertamina (PERTM.UL) reached a $3.1 billion financing deal with a number of export credit agencies and commercial banks to fund the upgrade of its Balikpapan refinery, the company said on Saturday. The lenders include export...
more(Railway Gazette, Suttton UK, 24 May 2023) Alstom and Export Development Canada have signed a C$3·5bn three-year sustainable global corporate partnership covering export financing support and insurance in the transport sector. The export credit agency will focus its support on digital systems...
more(Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 21 May 2023) The leaders of the US, Japan, Australia and India met for the Quad Summit on the sideline of the G7 conclave in Hiroshima and agreed to work on a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) between the export credit agencies of the governments to strengthen...
more(Environmental Defence, Ottawa, 15 April 2023) In a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, a broad range of Canadian organizations note that it has been over a decade since Canada first committed to ending inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. Instead of fulfilling this promise, the Government of...
more(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 13 April 2023) Friends of the Earth has filed an open records request of the Alaska...
more(ARGS, London, 9 March 2023) Embraer has closed a US$ 200 million credit facility to finance purchases from direct suppliers in the United States. This financing is being provided by Citibank and guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), the country’s official export...
more(Microcapital Monitor, Boston, 10 March 2023) Asociación de Cooperativas Argentinas (ACA), a network of 143 agricultural cooperatives in Argentina, recently borrowed USD 80 million from three institutions, led by the Dutch development bank Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (...
more(Global Echo, Washington, 8 March 2023) In November 2021 the U.S. provided $600 million in an export credit agreement to help Lithuania withstand pressure from China and joined the EU's WTO lawsuit in support of Vilnius. Days after the establishment in 2021 of the “Taipei Representative Office...
more(Trade Finance Global, London, 8 March 2023) President and Chair of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Reta Jo Lewis gave a keynote address to the Trade Finance Global’s Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments roundtable, urging multilateral organisations to take strides towards...
more(Inclusive Development International, Asheville NC, 7 February 2023) Ugandan, Tanzanian and U.S.-based human rights and environmental groups have lodged a formal complaint alleging that Marsh is violating OECD guidelines for responsible business conduct by serving as insurance broker for the...
more(Benzinga, Detroit, 12 February 2024) A U.S. delegation to a major mining conference in South Africa last week included officials from the Treasury and State departments and the chair of EXIM. Mining and building infrastructure on the continent hasn't traditionally been a U.S. government...
more(Columbia University, New York, 25 August 2022) This report, part of wider work on nuclear energy at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, compares the financing terms offered between 2000 and 2021 by the world’s major exporters of nuclear power plants: Russia, France, the...
more(UKEF, London, 22 January 2023) Acknowledging the G7 Leaders’ Statement on Support for Ukraine, as heads of the official export credit agency (ECA) schemes of the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America – we wish to express our...
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