(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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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
2015/10/30
Country: Germany, USA
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(New York Times, New York, 10 October 2015) In 2013 the people who dreamed up Big River Steel in Arkansas wanted government aid that would help make the project successful — the kind of aid that groups like Heritage Action and Americans for Prosperity, both generously supported by the right-...
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2015/09/30
Country: Canada, China, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(Global Capital, London, September 2015) The stated aim of the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), officially launched in June 2015, is to respond to a need for massive spending across Asia. But its creation has caused political controversy, with supporters arguing it...
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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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2015/02/28
Country: Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Morning Star, London, 20 February 2015) Recently released HSBC files reveal that the bank's Swiss branch held accounts for Jeffrey Tesler, a London lawyer...
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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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2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, USA
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 23 October 2014) On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal. The consortium includes the two main Dutch dredging companies: Royal Boskalis...
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2014/06/30
Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Washington, 16 June 2014) The United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands will float a plan this week requiring new coal-fired power plants to meet a carbon pollution standard in order to receive public funding from the world's wealthiest countries, according to a draft seen by...
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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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2014/05/31
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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2014/04/30
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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2014/02/28
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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