(Construction Index, London, 30 March 2023) The project will extend the university and improve access to higher education. The project is being developed by a joint venture led by Quenda Business, a Polish project management, international business advisory and consulting company that operates...
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2023/03/30
Country: Argentina, Canada, Netherlands
(Microcapital Monitor, Boston, 10 March 2023) Asociación de Cooperativas Argentinas (ACA), a network of 143 agricultural cooperatives in Argentina, recently borrowed USD 80 million from three institutions, led by the Dutch development bank Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (...
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2023/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Debt, European Union, Transparency
(Global Echo, Washington, 8 March 2023) In November 2021 the U.S. provided $600 million in an export credit agreement to help Lithuania withstand pressure from China and joined the EU's WTO lawsuit in support of Vilnius. Days after the establishment in 2021 of the “Taipei Representative Office...
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2023/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Trade Finance Global, London, 8 March 2023) President and Chair of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Reta Jo Lewis gave a keynote address to the Trade Finance Global’s Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments roundtable, urging multilateral organisations to take strides towards...
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2023/03/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Earth Org, Hong Kong, 28 March 2023) ) The new policy will allow Italy’s export credit agency SACE to support various fossil fuel projects, including exploration, production, storage, and distribution. Climate experts have strongly criticised the move, saying it would breach international...
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2023/03/30
Country: Italy, Russia, Ukraine
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Debt
(European Commisson, Brussels, 6 March 2023) The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, an amendment to an existing Italian guarantee scheme, including an up to €3 billion budget increase, for the reinsurance of natural gas and electricity trade credit risk in the context...
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2023/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
(IMF, Luxembourg, 1 February 2023) IMF Deputy Managing Director Bo Li at the EIB Group Forum 2023 spoke to the importance of the green transition - "away from fossil fuels that are subject to supply disruptions and volatility, and towards renewables such as wind and solar energy. The growing...
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2023/03/29
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(TXF, London, 1 March 2023) The volume of ECA business and the number of deals is down in the Middle East, but at the same time we are seeing higher volume and more deals in North Africa. Industrial diversification is driving the changes of a region in transition. There is a significant...
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2023/03/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Re:Common
(ReCommon, Rome, 29 March 2023) The decision by the government of Italy and SACE to break their climate promise made during COP26 in Glasgow has aroused strong indignation. SACE, Italy’s export credit agency, will continue to finance fossil fuel projects abroad until at least 2028, thus...
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2023/03/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Re:Common
(Global Trade review, London, 22 March 2023) Italy has walked away from a pledge to end support for international fossil fuel projects by the end of last year, indicating it will continue to provide export credit cover for parts of the oil industry in the short term and delaying a decision to...
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2023/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 15 March 2023) Promise Breakers, a report released today by Oil Change International, reveals that the Glasgow Statement, a joint commitment forged at the 2021 UN climate summit (COP26...
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2023/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Oil Change International
(Global Trade Review, London, 15 March 2023) A meeting of the OECD Arrangement on export credits ended last week without an announcement of a breakthrough on any key planks in its modernisation agenda. The arrangement was created to avoid like-minded countries from undercutting each other on...
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2023/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 30 January 2023) Michal Ron was elected president of the Berne Union, the international association for the export credit insurance industry, at a particularly unstable time for global trade. In an exclusive interview with GTR, she looks back on her two-year term,...
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2023/02/28
Country: India, Ireland
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Reuters, Bengaluru, 15 February 2023) As global aerospace savours a record Air India 500-plane deal cheered by world leaders, it is the turn of leasing companies to line up for a piece of the action. "The large majority of these aircraft are likely to be financed through sale-and-leasebacks...
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