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Moody’s forecasts strong underwriting discipline for trade credit insurers in 2024
28th March 2024
Analysts at Moody’s Investors Service anticipate that trade credit insurers will maintain strong underwriting discipline in 2024, supported by robust financial reserves, despite an increase in insolvencies and claims resulting from a global economic downturn. Moody’s observes a persistent increase in corporate defaults in early 2024, which is expected to lead ... Read the full article
Fannie Mae executes fourth CIRT transaction of 2023
3rd May 2023
Fannie Mae has executed its fourth Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (CIRT) transaction of 2023. As part of Fannie Mae’s ongoing effort to reduce taxpayer risk by increasing the role of private capital in the mortgage market, CIRT 2023-4 transaction transferred $501.6 million of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers. Fannie ... Read the full article
Africa Specialty Risks partners with Africa Re on political risk & trade credit
22nd November 2022
Africa Specialty Risks and the African Reinsurance Corporation have announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement on the provision of Political Risk and Trade Credit Insurance through an Underwriting Authority Agreement which brings in a $10 million multi-year capacity for risks situated in Africa and the Middle East. Read the full article
Allianz renames Euler Hermes to Allianz Trade
29th March 2022
Global insurance carrier Allianz has renamed trade credit insurer, Euler Hermes to Allianz Trade, effective immediately. Allianz Group purchased the trade credit specialist in 2018. The company said: “We are the world leader in trade credit insurance, operate in 52 countries and count over 5,500 employees. Changing our brand name to Allianz ... Read the full article
Tokio Marine says reinsurance protects it against Greensill losses
10th March 2021
Japanese insurance giant Tokio Marine has told the Financial Times that it expects its exposure to the collapse of supply-chain financing group Greensill will be limited by its reinsurance protection. The exposure comes through trade credit insurance policies relating to the, extremely well-documented by the FT's journalists, collapse ... Read the full article
Covid-19 trade credit losses up to $46bn, reinsurers to take up to 30%: MS analysts
5th May 2020
Trade credit insurance market losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic could reach as high as $46 billion, with reinsurers perhaps taking as much as 30% of the hit, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley. The analysts said in a report that their initial estimate for losses to primary credit insurers is ... Read the full article
UK trade credit package a boost for insurers, says GlobalData
22nd April 2020
Data and analytics firm GlobalData has said that the UK re/insurance industry could be boosted if the government decides to implement a trade credit reinsurance backstop scheme for the duration of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Sources said earlier this week that insurers are discussing a new scheme with the Treasury ... Read the full article
Coface placed on Rating Watch Negative by Fitch
1st April 2020
Global financial services ratings agency, Fitch Ratings, has placed Coface on Rating Watch Negative amid expectations that the trade credit insurance industry will be negatively impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. According to Fitch, the impacts and uncertainty being created by the virus outbreak means that it is now more ... Read the full article
Arch Capital acquiring 29.5% stake in trade-credit insurer Coface
25th February 2020
Arch Capital Group Ltd., the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance specialist, is acquiring a majority stake in France-based trade-credit insurance firm Coface. Arch Capital has entered into a share purchase agreement with French corporate and investment bank Natixis, which has been selling down its majority stake in Coface. The sale of shares ... Read the full article
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