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#Corporate news
In a recent interview with Le Revenu, Xavier Durand, CEO of Coface, shares his thoughts on risk management, current economic challenges and the place and role of data and innovation in risk analysis and prevention.
#Corporate news
As a global leading player in trade credit risk management for more than 75 years, Coface helps 100,000 companies grow across some 200 international markets. Discover how Coface helps you trade smarter.
#Corporate news
The rating agency AM Best, on 29th May 2024, has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICRs) to ’a+’ (Excellent) from ‘a’ (Excellent) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating – IFS rating of A (Excellent) of Compagnie française d’assurance pour le commerce extérieur (la Compagnie), Coface North America Insurance Company (CNAIC) and Coface Re. The outlook for these ratings is “stable”.
#Economic publications
The South African steel industry is navigating turbulent times, shaped by global market pressures and internal economic challenges. Shrinking demand, rising competition from imports, and logistical inefficiencies are undermining local production. Notably, ArcelorMittal’s recent closure of long-steel plants in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has heightened concerns over the sector’s viability.
#Economic publications
At Coface South Africa’s inaugural Risk Conference, Aroni Chaudhuri, Chief Africa Economist for Coface, provided a comprehensive analysis of South Africa’s economic trajectory, inflation trends, and investment outlook for 2025. His insights highlighted key macroeconomic challenges and opportunities shaping the nation’s economic environment.
#Economic publications
Political instability, social unrest, geopolitical rivalries, the rise of populism, armed conflicts, coups d'État... After a year of electoral fervour, combined with geopolitical turmoil affecting global trade, political risk is now a lasting, complex and worrying reality that companies must deal with.
#Expert advice
While the global economy is reshaping and advanced countries are slowing down, hopes for global economic rebounding rely on emerging ones. If China, the largest emerging economy, is stuck in a structural slowdown, which countries can take over and offer the most opportunities to companies this year? Outlook for 2025.
#Expert advice
In a context of persistent conflicts and failed global governance, international tensions are intensifying. In the face of Trump's possible re-election, three experts analyse, during our last Country Risk Symposium, the transformation of international relations, the global geopolitical reconfiguration and its impact on business strategies.
#Expert advice
Demographic ageing, slowing productivity gains, energy transition, technological competition: advanced economies are facing numerous complex challenges. In response, industrial policies are back in the spotlight, fostering competition. With the risk that desynchronised initiatives could trigger a race to outdo one another, leaving winners and losers.
#Our solutions
Trade Credit Insurance and Business Information services: whether to cover its client risk, provide third-party guarantees or better control its supplier risk, Renault Group relies on Coface's leading global ecosystem and expert solutions to mitigate its commercial risks. And this, since 1958!
#Our solutions
A growing need for high added-value data and powerful key indicators to anticipate non-payments and master customer risk: who said that Business Information services were only for large companies? Sharing experience and use cases of Coface's Business Information solutions with Nicolas Brion, from Moine Recyclage, a French SME with that manages its commercial risks with Urba360.
#Our solutions
GDP, export volumes, inflation, political and social risk index: today, economists' work is fundamentally data-driven. Their assessments of a country or sector's commercial risk fully integrate data and advanced analytical solutions. In this new episode, our colleague Aroni Chaudhuri shares his challenges and explains how he leverages data and tech to offer unique insights to our clients and help them trade smarter.
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