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Export Credit Guarantee Department
UK Export Finance (UKEF) is the operating name of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), the United Kingdom's export credit agency and a ministerial Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, department of Government of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Government. It has been awarded the best global export credit agency for 2019. In 1920, UKEF had a maximum total exposure of just £26 million. Today, its maximum commitment stands at £50bn. Recently, the ECGD celebrated its 100th anniversary as the longest running export credit agency in the world. Activities ECGD derives its powers from the 'Export and Investment Guarantees Act 1991'' and undertakes its activities in accordance with specific consent from HM Treasury. ECGD was established in 1919 to promote UK exports, lost during the submarine blockade of World War I. ECGD's aim is to benefit the UK economy by helping exporters of UK goods and services to win business, and UK firms to invest overseas by provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Offices Great George Street
Government Offices Great George Street (GOGGS) is a large UK government office building situated in Westminster between Horse Guards Road, Great George Street, Whitehall, Parliament Street, King Charles Street and Parliament Square. The western end of the building, on Horse Guards Road, is known as 1 Horse Guards Road (1HGR). The Whitehall, Parliament Street end is referred to as 100 Parliament Street (100PS). History GOGGS was designed by J. M. Brydon, John Brydon following a competition in 1898. Construction took place in two phases: the East end was completed in 1908 and the West end was completed in 1917. It was originally built as offices for the Board of Education (United Kingdom), Board of Education, the Local Government Board and the local Ministry of Works (United Kingdom), Ministry of Works Office; HM Treasury moved into the building in 1940. A major refurbishment of the building was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2000. The works, which were des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Corner House (organisation)
The Corner House is a not for profit company limited by guarantee founded in 1997 in the United Kingdom. According to its website, it aims "to support democratic & community movements for environmental & social justice". In 2007, The Corner House and the Campaign Against Arms Trade sought a judicial review of the UK Government's discontinuation of an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into the Al Yamamah arms deal. The High Court initially declared the Serious Fraud Office's discontinuation unlawful in April 2008, but this decision was unanimously reversed by the House of Lords in July of the same year. Legal analysis The principle had already been established in ''Khalid'' that where the Crown had no choice, a prosecution could be dropped in the face of an extreme threat. The question was therefore simply whether the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had done 'all that could reasonably be done had been done to resist the threat'. In April 2008 the High Court of Justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servizi Assicurativi Del Commercio Estero
SACE is the Italian export credit agency. It is wholly-owned by Ministry of Economy and Finance and governed by Filippo Giansante, as Chairman, and Alessandra Ricci, as CEO. History * 1977 - establishment of Sezione speciale per l'Assicurazione del Credito all'Esportazione - SACE as public entity under the surveillance of the Italian Ministry of the Treasury * 1990 - establishment of Società Italiana per le Imprese Miste all'Estero - SIMEST as public entity under the surveillance of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Trade * 1998 - Sezione speciale per l'Assicurazione del Credito all'Esportazione was transformed into Istituto per i Servizi Assicurativi del Commercio Estero - SACE as an entity with legal personality under public law, under the supervision of the Ministry of the Treasury, Budget and Economic Planning * 2004 - SACE is transformed into a joint-stock company, whose capital is wholly-owned by Ministry of Economy and Finance and enters the short-term credit insurance ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euler Hermes
Allianz Trade is an international insurance company that offers a range of services including trade credit insurance, debt collection, surety bonds and guarantees, business fraud insurance and political risk protection. A subsidiary of Allianz SE, Euler Hermes is rated AA by Standard & Poor's. It monitors the financial health of over 80 million companies. Headquartered in Paris, the company is present in more than 50 countries with more than 5,500 employees, and has a global market share of 34%. They posted a consolidated turnover of €2.9billion in 2021, and insured global business transactions representing €931billion in exposure. History Creation of credit insurers around the world * 1883: ACI in the United States * 1917: Hermes Kreditversicherungsbank in Germany * 1918: Trade Indemnity in United Kingdom * 1927: SFAC in France and SIAC in Italy * 1929: COBAC in Belgium Birth of Euler Hermes In 1993, SFAC started to acquire the different local market leaders in trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bpifrance
''Banque publique d'investissement'' (literally ''renchPublic Investment Bank'', also known as Bpifrance, BPI Groupe S.A.) is a French public investment bank. It is a joint venture of two public entities: the Caisse des dépôts et consignations and EPIC BPI-Groupe, formerly EPIC OSEO. The former subsidiary of EPIC OSEO, OSEO S.A., became a subsidiary of Bpifrance known as Bpifrance Financement. The bank was directly supervised by the European Central Bank due to its size. Subsidiaries and minority interests *Bpifrance Financement S.A. (90%) (ex-OSEO S.A.) ** Bpifrance Régions (99%) * Bpifrance Participations (100%) (ex-Fonds stratégique d'investissement) ** Bpifrance Investissement (100%) (ex-CDC Entreprises) **Orange S.A. (shared with APE as the largest shareholders (23.04%); the rest publicly floats) **FT1CI (79.2%, the rest owned by another French agency CEA) ***STMicroelectronics Holding (50%; joint venture with Italian government) ****STMicroelectronics (27.6% as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department For Business, Innovation And Skills
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Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement (french: Accord de Paris), often referred to as the Paris Accords or the Paris Climate Accords, is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, Climate change adaptation, adaptation, and Climate finance, finance. The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 196 party (law), parties at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference near Paris, France. As of September 2022, 194 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are parties to the agreement. Of the four UNFCCC member states which have not Ratification, ratified the agreement, the only major emitter is Iran. The United States withdrew from the Agreement in 2020, but rejoined in 2021. The Paris Agreement was opened for signature on 22 April 2016 (Earth Day) at a ceremony in New York (state), New York. After the European Union ratified the agreement, sufficient countries had ratified the Agreement responsible for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Agency For Overseas Development
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) is an international development charity and the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. It aims to tackle poverty globally. Through local Catholic Church and secular partners, it helps people directly in their own communities and campaigns for global justice. Established in 1960,Side by Side: The Cafod magazine, published Spring 2022 it is funded by the Catholic community in England and Wales, the British government (through UK aid), private and institutional donors, and the general public. CAFOD is part of Caritas Internationalis, the worldwide federation of Catholic aid organisations with a presence in 165 countries and is a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the British Overseas Aid Group. CAFOD's Director Christine Allen was appointed in March 2019. In 2019/20 CAFOD's income was £45million and it employed approximately 410 staff along with more than 6,000 volunteers carrying ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Wide Fund For Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature Inc. (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment. It was formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States. WWF is the world's largest conservation organization, with over five million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries and supporting around 3,000 conservation and environmental projects. They have invested over $1 billion in more than 12,000 conservation initiatives since 1995. WWF is a foundation with 65% of funding from individuals and bequests, 17% from government sources (such as the World Bank, DFID, and USAID) and 8% from corporations in 2020. WWF aims to "stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature." The Living Planet Report has been published every two ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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