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Tone Lunde Bakker batteristrategi

Eksfin to help battery industry with investments and export

Battery production is difficult to finance, but the industry, the financial services industry and the government are working together to bring it to Norway. – Our goal is to increase Norwegian export and economic growth, while also cutting emissions—and to do this we need to work with the whole value chain, explains Tone Lunde Bakker, CEO of Export Finance Norway (Eksfin). Read More

Vestre batteriproduksjon

New battery strategy launched

On June 29 Minister of Trade and Industry, Jan Christian Vestre, launched the Norwegian Government’s Battery Strategy at FREYR Battery’s Mo i Rana Site. Eksfins CEO, Tone Lunde Bakker, held the following speech at the event. Read More

HullSkater Jotun

Eksfin breaks new ground with innovative financing package for service purchase

The Norwegian export credit agency, Export Finance Norway (Eksfin),is opening up new territory for state-backed financing with a cutting-edge solution that enables international customers to purchase ongoing services from a Norwegian exporter – a step beyond just capital goods and solutions that have been traditional recipients of its portfolio of loans and Triple A-rated risk guarantees. Read More

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Eksfin nears NOK 10bn in loan financing for green ship projects

Norwegian export credit agency Eksfin (formerly Export Credit Norway and GIEK) is playing a major role in accelerating the ‘green shift’ at sea, providing loan guarantees approaching 1 billion Euro for the construction of 35 eco-friendly vessels over the last four years – including ‘Le Commandant Charcot’, the world’s most exclusive polar exploration cruise ship recently delivered to French cruise line PONANT by Norwegian shipbuilder VARD. Read More

New state guarantee scheme for package tour operators

From 23 June 2021, banks and insurance companies will be able to apply for state relief from the guarantees that they provide to the Travel Guarantee Fund on behalf of small and medium-sized package tour operators. The new scheme will be managed by GIEK until 1 July, when it will be taken over by the newly established Eksportfinansiering Norge (Eksfin). Read More