(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 30 April 2019) CEO of the Export Guarantee Fund of Iran says the fund has taken special measures to shield exports from the negative impact of US sanctions. “In light of the new US sanctions and the fact that foreign traders do not receive Iranian bank [export]...
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2019/04/29
(Times of Oman, Muscat, 28 April 2019) Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), the UAE Federal credit insurance company, was voted in as an observer member of the Berne Union, a renowned global association that represents the global export credit and investment insurance industry. In 2018,Berne Union...
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2019/04/29
Country: South Africa, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Debt
(The Citizen, Johannesburg, 3 April 2019) Moody’s credit opinion issued yesterday on the heels of its recent decision to keep South Africa’s credit rating one level above junk, said elevated government debt and contingent liabilities risks from state-owned enterprises (SOEs), limited government...
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2019/04/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
(ABC, Sydney, 4 April 2019) Hundreds of Australian and New Zealand cattle have died in a Federal Government-backed export deal with Sri Lanka, which local farmers say has left them broke, and in some cases, suicidal. Farmers and animal rights groups, as well as Sri Lanka's own auditor-general,...
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2019/04/29
Country: Canada, Switzerland
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Corruption
(CBC, Toronto, 3 April 2019) Export Development Canada has hired outside legal counsel to review some of its dealings with SNC-Lavalin. The review comes after a company insider told CBC News the engineering giant secured billions in loans from the Crown agency over the years, some of which he...
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2019/03/30
Issue: Corruption, OECD
(OECD, Paris, 27 March 2019) With the adoption of the revised Recommendation of the Council on Bribery and Officially Supported Export Credits (OECD/...
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2019/03/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Debt
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 March 2019) Excluded from many projects in countries under IMF bailout programmes, UK exporters are calling for a trade and aid link in African infrastructure and a rewrite of OECD guidelines that bind export credit agencies. The support is good but UK exporters...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, 8 March 2019) Securing a level playing field internationally [i.e. matching corporate subsidies] is vital to manufacturers in the United States, which already export about half their production, supporting millions of workers across...
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2019/03/30
Country: China
(The East African, Nairobi, 6 March 2019) China will host its second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum later this year, in its push to link the country by sea and land through an infrastructure network with Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The initiative launched by President Xi in...
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2019/03/30
Issue: End Coal Financing
(Thomson Reuters Foundation, London, 1 March 2019) A torrent of banks and other financiers are shifting their money out of coal as investment risks in it grow. We have only 12 years left to save the planet from devastating climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Business Wire, Washington, 28 March 2019) Leaders of government, business, and academia will address the 2019 Annual Conference of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) that held on Thursday and Friday, March 28-29, 2019, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The...
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2019/03/30
Issue: European Union
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 March 2019) Europe to exempt export credits from banks’ leverage ratios have been received positively, but is this good news for all export finance banks? Last month, EU ambassadors endorsed the capital requirements regulation adjustment package, including an...
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2019/03/30
Country: Canada, South Africa
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Aircraft, Corruption
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 26 March 2019) Senior federal officials sought to warn Canada’s export agency that it had suffered “significant” risk to its reputation because of its US$41-million loan to the controversial Gupta brothers who were at the heart of a South African corruption scandal,...
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2019/03/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 5 March 2019) A major oil and gas company wants Australian taxpayer money spent on overseas energy projects, stoking fears that a Morrison government plan to boost development in the Pacific is a smokescreen for fossil fuel investment. A government amendment to...
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2019/03/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Large Dams
(Standard Media, Nairobi, 7 March 2019) The Government of Kenya paid Sh10 billion to insure the loans taken for construction of the controversial Arror and Kimwarer dams, but industry experts argue the cost should not have exceeded Sh1 billion. Italian insurer SACE was paid Sh11.1 billion [94.2...
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