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Latest Coface country risk trends

In contrast with increasing signs of recovery in the United States and the rebound developing in Japan, overall economic activity has been stagnating in Europe with recession gripping the Union's major economies. Industrialised countries thus experienced divergent macroeconomic trends reflected...

#bank#exports#interest rates

A vision of stability within the Basel accord

The writer is governor of the Bank of Spain and chairman of the Basel committee on banking supervision  Michelangelo is…

#bank#credit risk#international


What China's rise means for the rest of Asia

By V Anantha Nageswaran, director, global economics and asset allocation, Credit Suisse, Singapore. This personal comment was first published in…


Small firms need more efficient European financial markets and...

Europe's small businesses need more efficient pan-European financial markets, more equity investment, and a sharper public policy focus on early-stage…


New Coface Country @ratings

Country @ratings reflect the average capacity of companies in particular countries to make timely payments. They derive from a composite…


Commercial debt collection- The 'do or buy' decision in...

Article by François de Hennin – Mediaedge  The main danger for any service provider is to loose its uniqueness (i.e.…

#bank#debt collection#management


Securitisation – new regulatory responses to capital arbitrage

The broad brush approach to credit risk in the 1988 Basel Accord encouraged banking innovations such as asset securitisation and…


Asset-based lending hots up

Recent asset-based lending activity in the US has further reinforced this finance tool as a popular mainstream option with recent…


Coface latest upgrades and downgrades to country risk ratings

The Coface Group, a world leader in export credit insurance and commercial risk management, today upgraded its ratings for Armenia,…

#exports#financial services#interest rates


The fight against fraud – what every company director...

Fear of fraud should force every board director to take responsibility for their companies’ defences and ensure they have strong…


The future is cross selling

A special article by Ann Horan, Managing Director, Bank of Ireland Commercial Finance and Chairman of the Factors & Discounters…

#bank#commercial finance#financial services


Coface world country risk index improves

Coface announced that its world country risk index continued to improve during the past three months (down 4% and at…

#bank#exports#liquidity

Reliance on exports is Asia's Achilles heel

Export growth is slowing across Asia in another sign that high oil prices are affecting the global economy. As recently…

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