The Reform will extend tenors and reduce borrowers’ fees to encourage commercial bank lending into energy transition projects. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has agreed a landmark deal...more
Sam Fowler-Holmes, Partner assisted by Jacqueline Cook, Of Counsel and Senior Knowledge Development Lawyer, presented our January webinar which looked at the second edition to A Practitioner’s Guide to Trade and Commodity...more
Export credit agencies (ECAs) are institutions that undertake official export credit activities for or on behalf of governments and whose main objective is to foster the competitiveness of a country by supporting the export...more
This alert is the first in a series addressing the issues affecting trade finance documentation and transactions in the current climate. Issues concerning documentation have been at the forefront of discussions in the...more
Coronavirus lockdowns have taken a heavy toll on the financial performance and stability of global airlines and their suppliers. According to aviation tracking site FlightRadar, the number of global passenger flights has...more
As a result of the health emergency caused by the widespread outbreak of the virus COVID-19, several measures have been adopted throughout the EU aimed at limiting the occurrence of significant disruptions to the financial...more
What is in a name? The new credit insurance product for financiers of Airbus aircraft dubbed “Project Balthazar” may be the product of wise minds but in the light of the launch of the credit insurance product for Boeing...more
The report examines financing trends, opportunities and risks in the ECA supported shipping and offshore sectors with a particular focus on three key market sectors: cruise ships, floating production storage and offloading...more
After seven decades as France’s export credit agency (ECA), on 31 December 2016, Compagnie Française d’Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur (Coface) transferred its State export credit guarantee activities to Bpifrance...more
The Export-Import Bank of the United States has been embroiled in a considerable amount of political controversy in recent years. Created in 1934 by a presidential executive order to finance and facilitate the export of U.S....more
Who would have guessed that congressional supporters of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) would have used a House procedure established over 100 years ago, and not used successfully since 2002, to save the Ex-Im Bank?...more