Reuters, Geneva/Paris, 28 March 2019) The World Trade Organization said on Thursday the United States had ignored its request to halt a subsidized tax break for Boeing Co in its main...
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2019/02/28
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 12 February 2019) In January Export Development Canada (EDC) released a new climate change policy. The policy commits EDC to further limit its coal-related investments and increase its support for clean technologies. It does not, however, put in place a clear path to...
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2019/02/28
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Export Import Bank of Korea, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Manama, 26 February 2019) Bahrain is talking to U.S. oil companies with shale oil expertise about developing a huge oil and gas field discovered last year, and hopes to have an interested company by the end of the year. Oil Minister Al Khalifa also said state-run Bahrain Petroleum...
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2019/02/27
Country: Finland
ECAs: Finnvera
(Global News Wire, Helsinki, 26 February 2019) Demand for export credits has increased in recent years. At the same time, our need for funding has increased and, in 2018, a total of EUR 2.4 billion was acquired from the capital market. To balance funding and asset management, Finnvera prepaid...
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2019/02/27
Country: France, Japan, Turkey
ECAs: COFACE, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Nuclear
(Daily Sabah, Istanbul, 25 February 2019) Turkey's second nuclear power plant to be built in Sinop under a Japanese-French partnership, will make a breakthrough by obtaining a ground license this year. The plant, which will have an installed capacity of 4,480 megawatts (MW) and consist of four...
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2019/02/27
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(20 Essex Street, London, 2 February 2019) A recent UN report with recommendations to advance efforts to eradicate modern slavery has mentioned, amongst other examples, the direct or indirect involvement of a state in the commission of offences via ECA funding of slavery-tainted enterprises....
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2019/02/27
Country: India
Issue: Debt
(Car Advice, Sydney, 11 February 2019) Jaguar Land Rover is seeking US$1 billion in funding after a disastrous fourth quarter of 2018, huge-write downs on the value of its investments, and continued sales struggles in China. According to a report from Automotive News Europe, the Indian-owned...
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2019/02/27
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 20 February 2019) Australia’s export credit agency, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Efic), could receive an A$1bn cash injection of callable capital, a mandate to finance larger overseas projects and a new name as part of a bill expected to pass in the...
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2019/02/27
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(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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