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EDC headquarters in Ottawa. Photo: Google Earth/StreetviewAbout Export Development Canada
Export Development Canada (EDC; French: Exportation et Développement Canada) is Canada's export credit agency. Its task is to support and develop Canada's export trade by helping Canadian companies. It is a self-financing, (Crown owned, in right of Canada) corporation that operates at arm's length from the government. It provides insurance and financial services, and bonding products to Canadian exporters and investors and their international buyers. It also supports Canadian direct investment abroad and investments in Canada. EDC signed the Equator Principles in 2007.
| Website | http://www.edc.ca |
| Headquarters |
150 Slater Street
ON K1A 1K3 Ottawa
Canada
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| CEO/chair |
Mairead Lavery President & CEO |
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| Annual report | Annual report 2020 |
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Export Development Canada is fully owned by the government of Canada. |
| Complaints and grievances |
Export Development Canada operates a Compliance and Ethics Officer who receives and reviewes complaints from stakeholders. |
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Export Development Canada has been linked to the following "Dodgy Deals", e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. Find out more about dodgy deals here. See the project or company profile for more details on the nature of the bank's link to the Dodgy Deal.
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Tracking the Equator Principles
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Export Development Canada (EDC)
2022-03-14
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2020
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Project name reporting status of Equator Principles signatories for each financial institutions' most recent reporting period. Where there is no percentage presented the EPFI has not reported having financed any project transactions in that reporting period.
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Export Development Canada has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:- Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
- Equator Principles
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Global Reporting Initiative- G3 Reporting Framework
- OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
- UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- UNEP Finance Initiative
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
Investment policies
Export Development Canada'swebpage on corporate social responsibility can be accessed here.
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Implementation and reporting
Export Development Canada is reporting on the implementation here.
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