Credit & Political Risk Solutions

We support financial institutions and corporates in managing their credit exposure in the fields of energy, metals & mining, soft commodities, and the energy transition. Our expertise includes sectors such as oil and gas, refineries, fertilizer, mining, metals processing, agricultural commodities, green steel, hydrogen, EV battery production, carbon credits. In terms of financing structures, we provide credit insurance for the following type of transactions: pre-export finance, prepayment facilities, reserve-based lending, project finance, borrowing base facilities, trader finance and (secured) revolving credit facilities.

We support financial institutions managing their credit exposures in documentary trade, receivables and supply chain finance transactions. We focus on transactions such as letters of credit (L/Cs), standby L/Cs, bank guarantees, oil payment guarantees, import L/Cs, trade loans, receivables finance, payables finance and promissory notes. We also support corporates with trade credit transactions.

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We are most active in sectors such as power (generation, transmission, and distribution), transport (aviation, airports, and roads), logistics (ports, rail and rolling stock), energy (LNG, pipelines and petrochemicals), social infrastructure (hospitals, schools) and telecom (towers, cables, fibre, and data centers). We cover facilities such as term loans (for example, construction and operations), capex loans, including undrawn commitments, and support facilities (for example, standby L/Cs).

We help financial institutions and corporations do business in developing and emerging markets. We focus on providing protection against sovereign credit risk, medium to long-term state-owned enterprise non-payment risk as well as loss of investment and non-payment arising from political risk events.