(Trend News Agency, Baku, 30 January 2016) Over the past ten years and after the removal of crippling nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, Hassan Rouhani was the first Iranian president to visit Europe breaking the deadlock over ties between the Islamic Republic and its traditional trade partners...
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2016/02/25
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
(Trade & Export Finance, London, 29 January 2016) A new law was passed in France last month which will change the face of the country's export credit agency (ECA). After nearly 70 years as France's ECA Coface is set to transfer the handling of state export credit guarantees to French public...
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2016/01/28
Country: China, Italy
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 25 January 2016) Italian utility group Enel has secured a US$1bn line of credit from the Bank of China, backed by Sinosure, the Chinese state export credit insurer. The five-year facility is aimed at financing projects involving Chinese companies around the world...
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2016/01/27
Country: Brazil, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 21 January 2016) Petrobras has received a US$500mn buyer’s credit facility from JP Morgan for the purchase of equipment manufactured by a UK subsidiary of GE Oil & Gas. Subsea and surface oil gas pipelines will be exported by Newcastle-based Wellstream...
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2015/12/31
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 17 December 2015) On 8 June 2015 Both ENDS – in conjunction with and on behalf of Associação Fórum Suape Espaço Socioambiental, Conectas Direitos Humanos and Colônia de Pescadores do Município do Cabo de Santo Agostinho – notified the Dutch National Contact Point of a...
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2015/12/31
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(Tehran Times, Tehran, 1 December 2015) Iran and Italy have agreed to open a $5-billion credit line, in a bid to pave the way for optimal banking and economic ties between the two countries once sanctions against the Islamic Republic are lifted. The credit line is projected to take effect one...
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2015/12/31
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(Ansamed, Rome, 11 December 2015) The Italian export credit agency SACE has announced five billion euros in operations being assessed to support Italian export and firms in Egypt, one of the most strategic markets for the country in the Mediterranean. SACE has in Egypt a portfolio of insured...
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2015/12/31
Country: Russia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Your Oil & Gas News, Aberdeen, 22 December 2015) Sovcomflot Group and Sberbank CIB have signed a 14-year $340 million credit facility agreement to finance the construction of three Arctic shuttle tankers for the Novy Port project (project operator: Gazprom Neft). Commenting on the...
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2015/12/31
Country: Netherlands
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, December 2015) In November 2013, Both ENDS published a study on Atradius DSB’s support for complex export transactions that were structured via tax havens, and thus its potential underwriting of aggressive tax avoidance positions that corrode the tax sovereignty of...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption
Member: Both ENDS
2015/12/31
Country: Russia
(Sputnik News, Tehran, 23 December 2015) Russia plans to provide Iran with $2.2 billion in state export credit in 2016 as part of a $5 billion loan plan, Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Thursday.
2015/11/30
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
(Global Trade Review, Paris 24 November 2015) France’s Banque Publique d’Investissement (Bpifrance) has issued its first export credit facility to bread equipment manufacturer Mecatherm, for the export of two bread production lines to Mozambique. Created in 2013, Bpifrance offers capital and...
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2015/10/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Human Rights
(Tass, Verona, 22 October 2015) The Italian export credit agency SACE has suffered losses up to €3 billion due to sanctions against Russia, head of the agency Giovanni Castallaneta said. "We have already suffered damage for 2014-2015 for the sum of €2.5-3 billion," Castellaneta told the...
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2015/10/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(ANSAmed, Rome, 20 October 2015) New export opportunities in the United Arab Emirates for Italian companies after the agreements signed by SACE with the Dubai Aviation City Corporation (DACC) and Abu Dhabi Ports, on the occasion of the Emirati National Day at the EXPO. The accord with DACC,...
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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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2015/10/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Management Today, London, 30 September 2015) Evraz, the steel and mining giant that is 30.8% owned by the Russian oligarch and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, is due to receive a £45m loan from Britain's export credit agency. The loan is part of the UK Export Finance 'direct lending' scheme...
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