Trade Credit

Protect your company against bad debts losses.

The timely release of the capital tied up in trade receivables has a direct impact on a company`s liquidity and profitability. The larger the loss, the greater the impact on your company. Our specialist understanding of credit & political risk enables our clients to secure growth. We deliver the trade credit insurance solution for our clients that best suits their business in order to minimize or even eliminate their trade risks.

Understanding Your Risks

Risk dialogue:

The trade credit strategy of your company is in the focus of our dialogue.
We also understand that all businesses are different with specific needs. Out of this, we identify possible solutions and optimization potential.

Conception:

Together with you, we derive the appropriate concept for trade credit solutions.
We prepare the relevant documents for the market survey and ask the credit insurance market for its offers.

Analysis:

We summarize the results in a market overview.
We present a performance diagnosis that will be the basis for decision-making.

Implementation & Sustainability:

We support the implementation of the trade credit solution in your company in all contract matters.
In addition, we offer training for employee qualification.

Providing Tailored Solutions

Trade Credit Insurance: The risk for you as a supplier results from the fact that your customer meets his payment obligations late, only partially or not at all. If you protect yourself against these risks, you can take advantage of your opportunities.
Single Risk Insurance for larger projects if the project lasts several years, such as in the machinery and capital goods segment.
Single Buyer Insurance for all transactions with a single customer.
Top-Up-Solutions for credit limits that are set too low with another credit insurer.
Preferential Payment Insurance in the event that the insolvency administrator reclaims the amounts of invoices that have already been paid

Creating Added Value

Protection of your company`s liquidity and your profit;
Support for expending sales to new or existing domestic and export customers;
Access to the Credit Insurer`s information system about the creditworthiness of the customers by credit limit decisions;
Serves as supplementary services to your own credit risk management /delcredere process
Possibility to offer your customers credit terms, with no securities;
Optimization of your customers’ portfolio;
Reduction of bad debt reserves, including debt collection;
Support to obtain attractive conditions from banks or other financial institutions.

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Group Practice Leader Credit & Political Risk

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