(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 7 February 2019) The federal government paid Calgary-based Suncor Energy as much as $600-million to compensate for Middle East oil and gas assets and income lost since the Arab Spring in 2011. On Wednesday Suncor disclosed in its quarterly financial results that it...
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2019/02/27
Country: Germany, Russia, USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Frankfurt, 8 February 2019) German banks are seeking to blunt any fresh U.S. sanctions against Russia so they can continue existing business with Russian clients, according to an internal briefing paper prepared by a financial industry lobby group. The risk of new restrictions on...
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2019/02/27
Country: Australia, Iraq, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Daily Sabah, Istanbul, 4 February 2019) Turkey, the top contributor for Iraq's reconstruction with a $5 billion loan, has launched a coordination process to allocate the funds pledged for rebuilding Iraq. During the Kuwait International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq, the host...
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2019/02/27
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
(Guardian, London, 24 February 2019) Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Britain to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, in what he said would mark a test of Theresa May’s commitment to act on climate change. The former UN secretary general said he was deeply concerned that...
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2019/02/27
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Corruption
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 22 February 2019) Following reports that engineering giant SNC-Lavalin lobbied federal officials intensively in the lead-up to its criminal prosecution on corruption charges, public attention has been brought to the hundreds of millions in government loans the company has...
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2019/01/30
Country: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Russia, Sweden
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(TASS, Vienna, 29 January 2019) Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction project, is conducting negotiations to attract project financing worth 6 bln euros. Chief Financial Officer Paul Corcoran told reporters "We are still in discussions with export credit...
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2019/01/30
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, London, 17 January 2019) Satorp, the joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Total SA, hired Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Riyad Bank to help raise funds to develop a petrochemical facility in the kingdom. Financing for the $5 billion Amiral project is expected to be arranged...
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2019/01/30
Country: Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Sydney, 18 January 2019) The expansion of Papua New Guinea’s giant gas project is turning up the heat in the Asia Pacific project finance arena, with a slew of jumbo financings set to emerge from Oceania in the next 18 months. Stakeholders in the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas...
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2019/01/30
Country: Indonesia, Russia, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Aircraft, Arms Trade
(Jane's Defence Weekly, Singapore, 25 January 2019) The Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) has completed a study on the country's aerial refuelling requirements and has proposed the acquisition of two new airframes for the service, outlining a budget requirement of about USD500 million, proposing...
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2019/01/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change
(Benzinga, Ottawa, 28 January 2019) Export Development Canada today revealed its new Climate Change Policy. The new policy commits EDC to measuring, monitoring and disclosing climate-related risks and opportunities, integrating climate change considerations into business decisions, and...
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2019/01/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(NEXI, Tokyo, 18 January 2019) Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) has decided to provide reinsurance on export credit provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the export credit agency of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), for export of one Rolls Royce-powered...
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2019/01/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Debt
(Nikkei Asia Review, Tokyo, 9 January 2019) Trading company Toyota Tsusho and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation are joining forces on a port project in Angola that will be the largest of its kind for Japanese businesses. The plan is to raise 70 billion yen ($643 million) from both...
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2019/01/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
(Kyiv Post, Kyiv, 8 January 2019) The Export-Import Bank of the United States has reopened its programs for Ukraine after a five year pause, the Washington-based U.S.-Ukraine Business Council stated. Through ten months of 2018 bilateral trade between Ukraine and the U.S grew slightly to $3.1...
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2019/01/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
(Eakinomics, Washington, 17 January 2019) The Export-Import Bank is due to be re-authorized in September 2019. The re-authorization of Ex-Im in 2015 became a pitched battle over whether it was an appropriate role for the government. While the arguments against market intervention make sense,...
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2019/01/30
ECAs: Atradius, EXIM Bank China, Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Macauhub, Macau, 11 January 2019) The government of Mozambique has been involved in the last few weeks in intense negotiations with seven countries to secure funding for one of its largest natural gas projects and overcome scepticism about whether it will honour its debt commitments. The...
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