Export Credit & Political Risk Insurance Monthly
Export Credit & Political Risk Insurance News
Insurance update from around the industry
How Relevant Is Credit Insurance to a
Business?
Should Congress Reauthorize the ExportImport Bank?
"Credit insurance protects businesses from nonpayment of commercial debt, writes Gregory le
Henand, country manager - GCC, credit insurance
firm Coface."
"Over the past few months, one of the most heated
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Exporters: Receivables insurance can Make the
Banks Sit Up and Take Notice
Paris Terror Attacks Not Unexpected;
Demand for Political Risk Cover
"When we were looking at ways of obtaining a line of
"The tragic events in Paris are a continuation of a
credit, accounts receivable insurance was the one
thing that all the banks wanted to see,” Mr. Asiron
says. “Once we got ours from EDC, the banks
became more willing to lend us money.”
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debates in small-business politics has centered on
the fate of a federal agency: the Export-Import
Bank of the United States.."
pattern that has been proliferating ideologically and
spreading geographically over the last decade and
which is not expected to diminish in the near future,”
according to Tim Holt, head of intelligence at
Alert:24, which is part of Willis’s Special
Contingency Risks;(SCR) unit.."
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The Rise of Political Risk
"Five years ago, the issue of political risk was
“buried,” says Stephen Kay, U.S. political risk
practice leader at Marsh. Companies “were
herding toward emerging markets, without thinking
very hard about the risks involved.” Today, political
risk has snapped back with a vengeance.."
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Allied World Commences In-House Trade
Credit Insurance Platform
"Allied World Assurance Company Holdings AG
announced the commencement of its in-house trade
credit and political risk insurance platform with the
completion of its previously announced acquisition of
its former program administrator, Latin American
Underwriters Holdings Ltd.."
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