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In their submission to the OECD ECWG consultation with CSOs on 19 November 2013, the Danish, French and German national human rights Institutes identified the...
more(ECA Watch, 30 November 2013, Ottawa) Export Credit Agency Watch (ECA-Watch) members say “hold the applause,” on ...
more(Guardian, 20 November 2013, Warsaw) British taxpayers' money will no longer be used to build coal-fired power stations in developing countries, the energy secretary Ed Davey pledged November 20th, as the fortnight-long United Nations climate talks in Poland entered their final phase. The UK...
moreThe Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, the OECD and the German Institute for Human Rights are holding a joint meeting on: Social and human rights standards in the promotion of foreign trade to implement the "Common Approaches on the Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits" of...
more(Atradius Dutch State Business, Amsterdam, 15 October 2013) Dutch ECA Atradius Dutch State Business has announced that banks outside the OECD area are now eligible for export credit cover if they finance Dutch exports. Up to now, only banks from the Netherlands and other OECD countries could...
more(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...
more(Atradius Dutch State Business, Amsterdam, May 2013) The 2012 Annual Review of Atradius Dutch State Business shows that while the number of approved applications actually declined in 2012 as compared to the previous year, the total aggregate nominal risk exposure in the same...
more(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...
more(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...
moreA new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International launched July 15 accuses the UK Government of allowing businesses to dip under the human rights radar when it comes to trade and investment. The 30-page document A history of neglect: UK Export Finance and human rights shines a...
more(FreshBusinessThinking, London, 20 June 2013) British businesses received £4.3 billion worth of support from the government through UK Export Finance (UKEF) in 2012-13, up from £2.3 billion in the previous year, and the highest in 12 years.
UKEF support has included:
- £2 billion...
Société Générale has accepted the mandate to structure export financing of Alstom turbines for the controversial Kaliningrad nuclear power project, with a potential export credit guarantee from the French State, via Coface. European NGOs and civil society organizations are organizing street...
more(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. Convened and chaired by the USA,...
more(Berne Union, London, 8 April 2013) Atradius Dutch State Business – the Dutch Export Credit Agency – and Exiar – its Russian counterpart – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) focused on increasing support to Dutch and Russian companies that jointly conclude export transactions or...
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