Agencies: Eksportfinans turns to government for funding

The Norwegian government and Eksportfinans have announced a facility that will provide long-term financing for the country’s export sector.

The resort to the facility shows that the financial crisis, and restricted access to capital, have spread to every type of issuer. Eksportfinans’ problems were exacerbated by state-guaranteed bank debt.

“The purpose is for us to increase lending,” Oliver Siem, executive vice-president and director of treasury at Eksportfinans, tells Euromoney. “There is a real challenge for Eksportfinans and other non-explicitly guaranteed institutions to get long-term financing in the international capital markets right now.”

“There is a real challenge for Eksportfinans and other non-explicitly guaranteed institutions to get long-term financing in the international capital markets right now”

Oliver Siem, Eksportfinans

Siem says the government will enact a scheme for a facility of up to NKr 50 billion ($7.2

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