(Oil Change International, Washington, 15 April 2011) In response to the launch of a new Export Finance for the Future coalition (E3F), 21 civil society organizations (CSOs) from 14 countries...
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2021/04/28
Country: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Denmark EKF, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
2021/03/31
Country: China, France, India, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 March 2021) French energy major Total has been forced to suspend operations at its liquified natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique for the second time this year, after a fresh attack by insurgents which killed dozens of local and foreign citizens,...
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2020/09/29
Country: Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China, Export Development Canada, Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Transparency
(Global Trading Magazine, Dallas, 25 September 2020) At the Sept. 9 end of the two-day 2020 G12 Heads of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) meeting, which EXIM Bank hosted virtually from its Washington, D.C. headquarters, the 12 Heads of ECAs issued its first-ever G12 joint statement. ECAs involved...
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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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2017/06/30
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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2016/06/29
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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2014/02/28
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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