(Lexology, London, 22 August 2023) China’s Sinosure, a major (virtually the only) provider of export credit insurance to China’s factories, plays an instrumental role in facilitating trade between Chinese suppliers and international buyers. However, there’s an under-discussed aspect of their...
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2023/08/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Jubilee Australia
(Jubilee Australia, NSW, 18 July 2023) Jubilee Australia, a human rights and environmental organisation, has filed legal proceedings this morning (18th July) in the Federal Court of Australia against federal government agencies that subsidise new fossil fuel projects but don’t disclose the full...
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2023/08/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Common Dreams, Portland, 29 August 2023) More than two dozen advocacy groups from Papua New Guinea, the Asia Pacific region, and the United States on Tuesday urged the U.S. export credit agency to reject a liquefied natural gas project that they warned “presents significant financial risks and...
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2023/08/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Al Jazeera, Washington, 30 July 2023) While the president's rhetoric aligns with global climate promises, his administration has approved massive fossil fuel projects. Ahead of its Climate...
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2023/08/31
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Energy Portal EU, London, 12 August 2023) The transition to clean energy is sparking intense debates as the climate crisis worsens. While cities, universities, and pension funds across the U.S. have divested from fossil fuels, the divestment movement has faced obstacles. In California, a bill...
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2023/08/31
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Sullivan&Cromwell LLP, New York, 10 August 2023) On July 14, the OECD published the revised text of the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits (the “Arrangement”). This forms part of the landmark modernisation of the Arrangement, as previewed in...
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2023/07/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Renewables
(G3 Football, Hillside NJ, 14 July 2023) Wolverhampton Wanderers have recently made headlines for securing a £99 million loan from the UK government. While some may view this as a sign of financial trouble, experts argue that it is a shrewd move by the club. In this article, we will explore the...
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2023/07/30
Country: China
Issue: End Coal Financing
(Resiliance, US-UK-AU, 11 July 2023) The global energy crisis fueled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked widespread fears of a “return to coal” – yet, to date, there is scant evidence of this. Indeed, in the world of project financing, any supposed rebound has been illusory. The financing...
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2023/07/30
Country: Canada, Japan, Korea
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export Import Bank of Korea, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Renewables, Transparency
(Pulse News, Soeul, 24 July 2023) The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) is gearing up to upgrade its traditional model of financial support for promoting exports of Korean companies to a new level with the introduction of Export Credit Agency (ECA) Version 2.0. The management...
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2023/07/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: BRIC countries, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(ZAWYA, Dubai, 11 July 2023) Cedar Rose, a Cyprus and Dubai based corporate data, credit, risk and compliance firm, has reaffirmed its longstanding partnership covering over 25 years of relationship with Sinosure, a prominent Chinese state-owned enterprise responsible for export credit...
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2023/07/30
Country: Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
(BN Americas, Santiago, 7 July 2023) Although the energy transition and ESG issues are gaining traction, many banks and credit export entities keep financing oil and gas undertakings, such as floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs) ordered by Brazil’s federal oil firm Petrobras...
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2023/07/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(PES Media, Rochester, 5 July 2023) UK Export Finance (UKEF) has published its annual results for 2022-23, which show the government’s export credit agency provided £3.5bn in new, direct support for UK manufacturing exporters in the last 12 months. The financing has directly supported up to 34,...
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2023/07/30
Country: Korea
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Arms Trade
(Business Korea, Seoul, 4 July 2023) According to the Export-Import Bank of Korea’s loan and guarantee data by item and country on July 3, the state-run bank provided 488.2 billion won (US$375.7 million) in financial support in the form of loans and guarantees to the defense sector in the first...
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2023/07/30
Country: China, India
Issue: Debt
(MINT, New Delhi, 6 July 2023) India plans to allow Sri Lanka up to 12 years to repay its debt to help ease the financial burden on the island-nation, India’s Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) Ltd’s chairman-cum-managing director M.Senthilnathan said. Sri Lanka, facing its worst...
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2023/07/29
Country: Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Full Fact, London, 26 July 2023) Earlier this week Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham tweeted a screenshot of a UK government press release with the headline “UK announces £680m for new high-speed electric railway in Turkey”. Alongside the screenshot, Mr Burnham tweeted “So we can’t afford...
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