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2006/03/09
(BestWire Services, Norwalk CT, 16 February 2006) With new offices in Australia and Israel, Coface now has US$1.38 billion in turnover worldwide, of which only US$56 million is on behalf of the Government of France as an official OECD ECA. Other news stories note competition between Coface and... more
ECAs: COFACE
2006/03/08
(PRNewswire, Arlington, 8 March 2006) Calling the Export-Import Bank a "prudent investment in a dynamic world," Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO John Douglass endorsed legislation reauthorizing the bank in a statement to the Senate International Trade and Finance Subcommittee. The... more
2006/03/07
(IPS, Santiago, 11 March 2006) As tensions between the governments of Argentina and Uruguay over two pulp mills on a river dividing the countries appear to be abating, local residents and activists continue to demand a halt to both projects. The Argentinian... more
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Finnvera
Issue: OECD, Pulp and Paper
2006/03/06
(China Economic Net, Beijing, 9 March 2006) From 2004 to 2005, China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, also known as Sinosure, covered US$34.4 billion in terms of insured amount, with business doubing on a year-on-year basis for two successive years. Coordinating actively with national... more
2006/03/05
(WEED, Berlin, March 2006) A recent symposium organised by the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive in Turkey in February 2006 brought together experts on hydrology, archaeology, resettlement, irrigation, culture, tourism,... more
2006/03/04
(IFC, Washington, 6 March 2006) ECAs participating in the 2006 revision of the OECD Common Approaches environment policy should warily eye the International Finance Corporation's recently approved Performance Standards. Warning that the IFC's overhaul of its social and environmental standards... more
Issue: Common Approaches
2006/03/03
(International Herald Tribune, Paris, 15 March 2006) While World Bank and ECA officials insist that environmental standards will be met and that promised alternative jobs and home relocations are in place before the dam is closed, NGOs believe that electricity sales revenues for the Bank, ECAs and... more
2006/03/02
(The Cornerhouse, Dorset UK, March 2006) ECA Watch presents a table comparing a number of positions and recommendations on anti-bribery policies for export credit agencies: 1) the 2000 OECD Action Statement on Bribery; 2) the 2003 OECD ECG paper on Best Practices; 3) the November 2005 OECD ECG... more
2006/03/01
(ECGD, London, 16 March 2006) The Final UK Government response to the public consultation on ECGD's anti-bribery and corruption procedures and associated documents can be found on the ECGD web site. Corner House, the UK NGO... more
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2006/02/28
Issue: Corruption, OECD
Member: Corner House
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2006/02/10
(CEDHA, Argentina, 23 Jan. 2006) Nearly 40 000 Argentine citizens have petitioned the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Uruguayan government has allowed serious breaches of human rights caused by two pulp mills. The largest of the mills is sponsored by three Finnish pulp... more
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
ECAs: Finnvera
Issue: Human Rights, Pulp and Paper
2006/02/09
(Dow Jones Newswires, 10 Feb. 2006 ) - Several new warnings have come out about Shell's Sakhalin II project's threat to the environment. Among the new information revealed is that a shipping vessel (from the same company that gave Sakhalin the Cristoforo Colombo oil spill accident) had a collision... more
2006/02/08
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 14 Feb. 2006) A comparison of the data for 2004 and 2005 shows that last year Atradius' business has been extremely good: they underwrote 43 projects in 2004, it provided an export credit insurance for 75 projects in 2005: an increase of 174%.
2006/02/07
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 31 Jan. 2006) Dutch NGO Both ENDS has been informed by the Dutch Export Credit Agency (ECA) Atradius-DSB that it decided not to approve the application for an export credit insurance for the financing of the Setusamudram Shipping Channel Project.
2006/02/06
(WEED, Berlin, The scandalous Ilisu dam project in Turkey is coming to a crucial stage. At the end of 2005, an updated environmental impact assessment and resettlement action plan were published by the consortium and applications for export credit insurance were filed in Austria, Switzerland and... more