Air Finance Journal Copying and distributing are prohibited without permission of the publisher

ECAs to cover pre-funded bonds

21 June 2012

Sources reveal US Ex-Im pre-funded bond deal pipeline.

Read more: US Ex-Im export credit agency UK Export Finance pre-funded bonds

Both the UK export credit agency (ECA), UK Export Finance, and US Ex-Im can now offer guarantees for pre-funded bonds to finance aircraft deliveries.

Traditionally ECAs have only guaranteed bonds that refinance banks loans to fund aircraft deliveries.

The reason that ECAs...


Latest Deals Database Updates

Atlas Air / 05-13 / Ex-Im Guaranteed Bond / 1x747 23/05/2013
Borrower Atlas Air
Amount $m143
Assets 747-8
Comair / 05-13 / PDP financing / 4x737 23/05/2013
Borrower Comair
Overall Arrangers
Assets 737-800
SA Airlink / 05-13 / Airc. Secured Loan / 5xAirc 23/05/2013
Borrower SA Airlink
Amount $m9.5
Assets ERJ 135

Quote

“At the current pricing it will become attractive again to issue Ex-Im-guaranteed bonds. This will help stabilize and drive pricing down from where it is now.”

Kostya Zolotusky, managing director, capital markets, Boeing Capital, says about the price of export credit.


Upcoming Events