(Innovation News, London, 31 October 2024) UK Export Finance (UKEF), the government’s export credit agency, will offer financial support for overseas projects to source critical minerals. Securing contracts that increase the UK’s ability to source critical minerals will help the UK build...
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2024/10/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
2024/10/31
Country: China, France, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Mongabay, Menlo Park, 17 October 2024) A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27...
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2024/10/31
Country: Austria, Germany, India, Switzerland
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
(Economic Times, Delhi, 24 October 2024) The Export Credit Agencies (ECA) of Germany (Euler Hermes), Austria (OeKB) and Switzerland (Swiss Export Risk Insurance SERV), together with the Swiss Business Hub India and Switzerland Global Enterprise, on Thursday reached out to Indian companies,...
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2024/10/31
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Merrifield, 4 October 2024) Fossil fuel companies continue to be propped up by the government in the form of public financing like US EXIM. Often, these tax dollars are funding overseas fossil fuel projects wreaking havoc on our environment and local communities in places...
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2024/09/30
Country: China, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(BNN Bloomberg, Toronto, 7 September 2024) The UK has stepped up business in French-speaking West and Central Africa as it seeks new frontiers for its exports. UKEF was backing transactions in francophone Africa worth a cumulative £1 billion ($1.3 billion) at the end of the 2023-4 financial...
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2024/09/30
Country: Russia
Issue: Corruption
(Business Post, Dhaka, 11 September 2024) Russia has said those who produce and spread "fake news" about alleged embezzlement at Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant deliberately attempt to “discredit” this ambitious project and to “undermine” beneficial relations between Moscow and Dhaka....
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2024/09/30
Country: Australia, Spain
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Renewables Now, 13 September 2024) Allied Green Ammonia Pty Ltd has hired Affinity Capital Group as a lead manager and strategic financial adviser to help it raise about USD 6.5 billion (EUR 5.90bn) for the development and construction of a large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia facility in...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt
(Splash 247, Singapore, 17 September 2024) Harland & Wolff, the owner of the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, has announced that it will be entering into administration this week after failing to find new funding following the UKEF rejection of the company’s request for a £200m...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Transparency
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 9 February 2024) Trade finance subsidies, usually provided by export credit agencies, are the predominant tool of industrial policy. This column discusses the effect of the effective shutdown of the Export–Import Bank of the US (EXIM) from 2015—2019...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries
(Journal of Commerce, London, 26 September 2024) Cuba and Britain have agreed to reschedule $27.7 million of short-term debt owed by the communist-ruled island, opening the way for London to resume medium-term export credit cover to Havana.Britain's government-funded Export Credit Guarantee...
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2024/09/30
Country: Germany, Indonesia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Risk Net, London, 26 September 2024) Last year, Deutsche Bank was selected as sole hedge co-ordinator and hedge arranger for a landmark $3.1 billion project-financing deal in Indonesia. Deutsche Bank declined to say who the client was, only that it was a processing and petrochemical company...
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2024/09/30
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, G7, Renewables
(Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, 25 September 2024) Fourteen countries this week took what they intended to be a big step in countering China’s dominance of critical minerals supply. But it’s unclear whether the initiative will restore competitiveness of Australian production...
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2024/09/01
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Renewables
(UK Government, London, 8 August 2024) UK Export Finance (UKEF) and KUKE, the UK and Polish export credit agencies, have guaranteed a €249 million loan being arranged by Standard Chartered Bank for Turkish renewable energy investment company Kalyon Enerji, enabling the construction of Turkey’s...
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2024/08/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Transparency
(Insider Media, Manchester, 1 August 2024) Businesses across the UK benefited from £8.8bn of funding support underwritten by UK Export Finance (UKEF) in the 2023/24 financial year. As the UK government’s export credit agency, UKEF provides loans, guarantees and insurance to help businesses sell...
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2024/08/31
Country: Canada, United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Debt, Transparency
(Guardian, London, 20 August 2024) Canada’s state-backed export credit agency is reportedly nursing steep losses after lending debt-ridden Thames Water as much as a billion Canadian dollars. The British utility, which has said it could run out of cash by next June, received five loans from...
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