Project Finance Bankers:
Commercial, Investment, and Development Bankers
■ ABN AMRO Bank NV
■ ANZ Investment Bank
■ Barclays Capital (UK)
■ Bank of America
■ BBVA Bank
■ BNP Paribas
■ Citigroup
■ Credit Suisse First Boston
■ Credit Agricole Indosuez
■ Dexia: "The bank for sustainable development"
■ DZ Bank
■ HSBC Bank
■ HypoVereinsbank
■ ING Barings
■ JPMorgan Chase
■ Macquarie Bank Ltd. (Australia)
■ Royal Bank of Canada--RBC Capital Markets (Canada)
■ Société Générale--Project Finance Group
■ Standard Chartered Bank
■ Standard Bank (South Africa)
■ The International Investor (Kuwait)
■ WestLB
Private Political Risk/Credit Insurers
■ Zurich
■ Sovereign Risk Insurance, Ltd (Bermuda)
Bond Guarantees
■ MBIA: provides Triple-A credit enhancement for a wide variety of asset classes.
Debt Restructuring
■ The Paris Club: The Paris Club is an informal group of official creditors whose role is to find co-ordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor nations
Development Banks and Agencies
Multilateral Development Banks and Agencies:
■ African Development Bank (ADB)
■ Asian Development Bank (ADB)
■ European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
■ European Investment Bank (EIB)
■ Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
■ Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC)
■ International Finance Corporation (IFC)
■ International Monetary Fund (IMF)
■ Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
■ Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
■ Nordic Investment Bank (NIB)
■ United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
■ World Bank Group
Bilateral Development Banks and Agencies:
■ Agence Francaise de Development (AFD, France)
■ Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC, UK)
■ Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation (FINNFUND, Finland)
■ Industrial Development Corporation (IDC, South Africa)
■ Industrialization Fund for Developing Countries (IFU, Denmark)
■ Japan Bank for International Cooperation (OECF, Japan)
■ Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW, Germany)
■ Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC, US)
■ Swedfund International AB (Swedfund, Sweden)
Export Credit Agencies (ECAs)
Multilateral Export Credit Agencies
■ African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank, Africa)
■ Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF, Andean Countries)
■ European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD, Central and Eastern Europe)
■ Inter-American Development Bank (IADB, Latin America)
■ Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC, part of the Islamic Development Bank)
■ Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (part of the World Bank)
Official Export Credit Agencies
■ Asuransi Ekspor Indonesia (ASEI, Indonesia)
■ Banco de Inversión y Comercio Exterior (BICE, Argentina)
■ Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior SNC (Bancomext, Mexico)
■ BNDES-Exim (Ex-Finamex, Brazil)
■ Compagnie Francaise d. Assurance pour le Commerce Exterieur (COFACE, France)
■ Companhia de Seguro de Créditos S.A. (COSEC, Portugal)
■ Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, S.A. (CESCE, Spain)
■ Corporación Financiera Nacional Fondo de Promoción de Exportaciones (CFN/Fopex, Ecuador)
■ Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation of Africa Limited (CGIC, South Africa)
■ Credit Insurance Zimbabwe (Credsure, Zimbabwe)
■ Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR, Croatia)
■ ECICS Credit Insurance Ltd. (ECICS, Singapore)
■ Exgo (a division of State Insruance, New Zealand)
■ Export Credit Guarantee Agency (ECGA, Oman)
■ Export Credit Insurance Corporation (Kuke, Poland)
■ Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD, UK)
■ Export Development Canada (EDC, Canada)
■ Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC, Australia)
■ Export Guarantee and Insurance Corporation (Egap, Czech Republic)
■ Export-Import Bank of India (I-Eximbank, India)
■ Export-Import Bank of Korea (Keximbank, South Korea)
■ Export-Import Bank of the Russian Federation (Eximbank, Russia)
■ Export-Import Bank of Thailand (Thai Exim, Thailand)
■ Export-Import Bank of Trinidad & Tobago (Eximbank, Trinidad & Tobago)
■ Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM, US)
■ Export Credit Insurance Organization (ECIO, Greece)
■ Export Kredit Fonden (EFS, Denmark)
■ Export Risk Guarantee Agency (ERG, Switzerland)
■ Exportkreditnamnden (EKN, Sweden)
■ Finnvera plc (Finnvera, Finland)
■ Guarantee Institute for Export Credits (GIEK, Norway)
■ Hermes Kreditversicherungs-AG (Hermes, Germany)
■ Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation (HKEC, Hong Kong)
■ Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Ltd. (MEHIB, Hungary)
■ Israel Foreign Trade Risks Insurance Corporation (Iftric, Israel)
■ Instituto per I Servizi Assicurativi e il Credito all'Espotazione
■ Japan Bank for International Cooperation (formerly JExIm)
■ Korea Export Insurance Corporation (KEIC, South Korea)
■ KfW IPEX Bank (part of the KfW BankenGruppe, Germany)
■ Malaysia Export Credit Insurance Berhad (MECIB, Malaysia)
■ Nederlandsche Credietverzkering Maatschappij NV (NCM, Netherlands)
■ Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits (Giek, Norway)
■ Office National du Ducroire (OND, Belgium)
■ Oesterreichische Kontrollbank Aktiengesellschaft (OeKB, Austria)
■ Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC, United States)
■ Segurexpo de Columbia (Segurexpo, Columbia)
■ Slovene Export Corporation (SEC, Slovenia)
■ Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC, Sri Lanka)
■ Svensk Esportkredit (SEK, Sweden)
■ Uzbekinvest National Export-Import Insurance Company (Unic, Uzbekistan)
Private Export Credit Insurance
■ CNA Insurance (CNA, USA)
■ Cox Insurance Political Risk Unit (CPRU, UK)
■ Crédito y Caución (Spain)
■ EULER Group (France)
■ Eurofactor (France)
■ Exporters Insurance Company (Bermuda)
■ Hiscox Trade Credit Insurance (UK)
■ Seguradora Brasileira de Credito à Exportação (SBCE, Brazil)
ECA Oversight and Reform
■ ECA Watch: runs a reform campaign hoping to get ECAs to adopt and upgrade environmental and social policies.
■ Berne Union: The Berne Union, which was established in 1934, has 51 members from 42 countries and locations. The union works for international acceptance of sound principles of export credit insurance and foreign investment insurance.
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56 Esty, B. "Modern Project Finance", John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2004 p. 518-520
57 Harvard Business School Project Finance Portal www.hbs.edu/projfinportal