(Spacenews, Glasgow, 18 July 2013) Britain’s export-credit agency, U.K. Export Finance, is unable to match the low-interest loans for satellite projects that its U.S., French, Canadian and Japanese counterparts offer because of national regulations that forbid interference with the private...
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2013/07/17
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Human Rights
A new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International launched July 15 accuses the UK Government of allowing businesses to dip under the human rights radar when it comes to trade and investment. The 30-page document A history of neglect: UK Export Finance and human rights shines a...
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2013/06/26
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(FreshBusinessThinking, London, 20 June 2013) British businesses received £4.3 billion worth of support from the government through UK Export Finance (UKEF) in 2012-13, up from £2.3 billion in the previous year, and the highest in 12 years.
UKEF support has included:
- £2 billion...
2013/06/25
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Nuclear
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
Société Générale has accepted the mandate to structure export financing of Alstom turbines for the controversial Kaliningrad nuclear power project, with a potential export credit guarantee from the French State, via Coface. European NGOs and civil society organizations are organizing street...
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2013/04/30
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
(US State Department, Washington, 11 April 2013) Ministers and senior officials from more than a dozen donor countries met in Washington, D.C. on April 10-11 to discuss ways to meet the challenge of scaling up low-carbon investment in developing countries. Convened and chaired by the USA,...
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2013/04/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
(Berne Union, London, 8 April 2013) Atradius Dutch State Business – the Dutch Export Credit Agency – and Exiar – its Russian counterpart – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) focused on increasing support to Dutch and Russian companies that jointly conclude export transactions or...
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2013/04/30
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Nuclear
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Friends of the Earth France, Paris, 26 April 2013) Following in the footsteps of BNP Paribas, the German HypoVereinsbank recently announced that it will not finance the Kaliningrad nuclear power plant in Russia. Today, to mark the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Friends of the Earth...
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2013/04/29
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, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre,
(Banktrack, Nijegen, 18 April 2013) A coalition of seven NGOs (BankTrack, Jubilee Australia, Pacific Environment, Act Now! PNG, Mineral Policy Institute, International Accountability Project and Friends of the Earth France) today sent a letter to seventeen banks that are already involved in the...
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2013/04/29
Country: Spain
ECAs: Export Development Canada
(ZDNET, 8 April 2013) Canada's export credit agency is lending European mobile giant Telefonica hundreds of millions of euros to spend on BlackBerry devices and services. The working capital facility from Export Development Canada (EDC) is meant to help the Canadian handset maker grow its...
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2013/02/28
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 19 February 2013) In 2012 Both ENDS organised a 'fact finding mission' to review the social and environmental impacts of dredging activities in the Suape harbor in Brazil. The Dutch dredging company Van Oord is currently executing two dredging projects in this harbour,... more
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Member: Both ENDS
2013/02/28
(Other News, Rome, 4 February 2013) Michael Pettis argues in "The Great Rebalancing" that in a globalised economy everything connects with... more
Country: China, Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/02/01
Region: Europe, Central Asia & Russia
Country: France, Germany
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Nuclear
Member: FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, , Re:Common, urgewald
2012/11/30
(Eurodad, Brussels, 13 Nov 2012) The UK coalition government’s official export credit insurer UK Export Finance has revealed information about the origin of ‘Third World Debts’ owed to the UK for the first time. UK newspapers The Guardian and Metro have raised questions about the use of taxpayer... more
Country: United Kingdom
2012/11/30
(Gazzetta del Sud, New Delhi, 30 November 2012) Italy's export-credit agency SACE has opened an office in the Indian economic capital Mumbai, the financial and insurance group said on Friday. The office is to act as a hub for the South Asian markets of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. SACE currently... more
Region: Asia and the Pacific
Country: Italy
2012/11/23
Credit insurer Atradius concluded a cooperation agreement with Petrobras on November 23 in Rio de Janeiro . The Brazilian oil company gets a credit insurance of US $1 billion for purchases in the Netherlands."That allows Dutch companies a lead over competition from other countries. We provide... more
Region: The Americas and US
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Member: Both ENDS