(Reuters, Paris, 27 July 2016) Airbus Group has agreed with European governments a process for regaining access to export credits, suspended earlier this year over flawed disclosures on the use of third-party agents to help to sell passenger jets, the company said on Wednesday. In a footnote in...
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2016/07/30
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
2016/04/30
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
(Reuters, Paris/Berlin, 8 April 2016) - France and Germany have joined Britain in suspending export credit facilities for Airbus jet deliveries, expanding the fallout from a potential corruption probe in Britain, several people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The move follows Britain's...
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2016/03/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Seattle Times, Seattle, 22 March 2016) The obscure U.S. Export-Import Bank moved to center stage in Washington’s Democratic presidential contest, as Hillary Clinton and her allies chided Bernie Sanders for opposing the bank, which plays an outsized role in this state. Speaking Tuesday at the...
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2016/02/25
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Aircraft
(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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2016/01/27
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Issue: Aircraft
(24/7 Wall Street, NewYork, 22 January 2016) Boeing Co. on Friday morning released its 2016 aircraft finance market outlook. The headline number is $127 billion, the forecast amount for new commercial deliveries in 2016, up from $124 billion in 2015. The company’s Boeing Capital...
2016/01/27
Issue: Aircraft, European Union
(New York Times, New York, 26 January 2016) Aircraft offer a stark example of Iran’s need for foreign goods. The sanctions left Iran with one of the world’s oldest and most accident-prone fleets. Iran Air operates exclusively Western-built jets, consisting of around 40 planes with an average...
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2015/09/30
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, OECD, World Trade Organization
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 28 September 2015) General Electric Co. is planning to build a state-of the art $265-million (U.S.) engine plant in Canada, as it shifts more business out of the United States following the collapse of U.S. government-sponsored export financing. GE said Monday it...
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2015/08/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Fortune, 25 August 2015) In the months leading up to an expected vote to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import bank, Boeing did what large corporations with lots of cash and deft political maneuvering skills often do so well. It spoke softly and lobbied hard, scattering a few pro-Export-Import...
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2015/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Moodys, New York, 22 July 2015) Without the renewal of the US Export-Import Bank charter, which Congress allowed to expire at the end of June 2015, aerospace giant The Boeing Company will take the biggest blow, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report. Moody's does expect that the US...
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2015/07/29
Country: China, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(TXF News, London, 17 July 2015) The UK export credit agency and HSBC have teamed to arrange the first ever offshore renminbi (RMB) financing for an aircraft purchase – in this case the sale of a new Airbus A330-300 passenger aircraft to China Southern Airlines. The transaction represents a...
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2015/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Al-Monitor, Washington, 11 June 2015) Companies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates together pulled in about $12 billion in trade financing over the past five years — 8.5% of the $141 billion global total — to help pay for nuclear reactors, industrial power generators and new fleets...
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2015/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, OECD, World Trade Organization
(The Hill, Washington, 15 April 2015) During congressional hearings, Republicans criticized Treasury Department officials for not negotiating with foreign governments to end subsidized export credit programs, as was mandated in the 2012 reauthorization bill. The Secretary of the Treasury had...
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2015/04/30
Country: China, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(TxfNews, Beijing, 2 April 2015) Airbus China Aircraft Leasing lands its first ECA-backed financing Chinese aircraft lessor China Aircraft Leasing Group (CALC) has completed its first aircraft financing backed by an export credit agency (ECA) guarantee – a $224 million facility guaranteed by UK...
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2015/03/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(Emirates 24/7 Business and Reuters, Dubai, 12 March 2015) Emirates airline has hired eight banks to arrange an Islamic bond that will be guaranteed by Britain's export credit agency, a document from lead arrangers showed on Thursday. The deal assumes significance as this is the first time the...
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2015/02/28
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Aircraft, Arms Trade
(Aviation Week, Paris, 17 February 2015) Nearly three decades after its first flight the Dassault-built Rafale has garnered its first export sale. The Egyptian air force is buying 24 of the multi-role fighters, including 16 two-seater and eight single-seat jets. A FREMM frigate,...
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