(The Telegraph, London, 25 October 2014) As more British companies begin to look overseas to tap new markets, the pressure is on George Osborne, the Chancellor, who has set a target to double the value of exports to £1 trillion by 2020, to provide greater financial support to businesses selling...
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2014/10/24
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: OECD, World Trade Organization
(Fibre2Fashion News, Ahmedabad, 2 October 2014) The United States and Brazil have agreed to settle their long-standing cotton dispute over U.S. agricultural export subsidies under the US Farm Bill and the USDA GSM-102 programme. As per the agreement, Brazil will relinquish all rights to...
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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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2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Member: Both ENDS
Both ENDS, 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[1]. The consortium...
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2014/09/23
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Business Credit Management, London, 5 September 2014) UK Export Finance, the UK’s export credit agency, is inviting partners to apply to help it deliver £3 billion of export credit loans as part of its enhanced direct lending facility. The government department, which during the last five...
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2014/09/23
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Fresh Business Thinking, London, 23 September 2014) "Commercial finance and liquidity may be readily available at the moment, but the aviation sector also needs to consider capital markets as a source of future funding," that is the message UK Export Finance’s Head of Aerospace, Gordon Welsh,...
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2014/07/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Aircraft
(The Independent, London, 6 July 2014) The Government is using taxpayers' money to underwrite £140m-worth of deals for a company whose ultimate ownership is based in a notorious tax haven. UK Export Finance, a branch of the Department for Business, is risking public funds to provide insurance...
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2014/07/29
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change
(Le Figaro, Paris, 6 July 2014) The French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development has called for an end to public subsidies for fossil fuels. After warning that our addiction to fossil fuels will destroy more wealth than it creates, he called on public and private investors...
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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: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
ECAs: Atradius, COFACE, Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Finnvera, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(European Commission, Brussels, 7 March 2014) Regulation (EU) No 1233/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2011 on the application of certain guidelines in the field of officially supported export credits foresees that Member States shall make available to the...
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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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2014/05/31
Country: France
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Sydney, 27 May 2014) Dozens of protesters caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to vehicles, equipment and buildings at Vale's nickel mining site in New Caledonia, as anger boiled over at a chemical spill into a local river. The $6 billion Vale plant at Goro was closed earlier...
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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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2014/04/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Guardian, London, 8 April 2014) Banks will have access to a Bank of England facility to make it less risky for them to finance exports under a new scheme to boost Britain's trade announced by George Osborne on April 7. Speaking in Brazil, the chancellor said billions of pounds of extra loans...
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