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  • Insurers facing higher sanctions risk from Strait of Hormuz crisis

    02 June 2026

    Insurers should focus on their due diligence processes, as sanctions risk around the Strait of Hormuz is "real" and "growing", Anna Sagar reports

  • Trade credit insurers not adjusting policies yet, as tariff landscape shifts

    11 November 2025

    Some reinsurers considering sub-Saharan Africa opportunities, says ICISA head

  • Russian-Ukrainian exposure at Europe's insurers revealed

    30 May 2022

    Insurance Risk Data finds Allianz takes top spot for number of stakes in war-zone businesses

  • Government trade insurance schemes cost Coface €160m in 2021

    16 May 2022

    Cost was €103m in Q4 alone, SFCR shows

  • UK ends pandemic support for trade credit insurers

    26 May 2021

    Reinsurance scheme will finish on 30 June

  • Governments win in Covid-19 trade credit reinsurance programmes

    07 April 2021

    Governments have profited from the support they offered trade credit insurers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Insurers say they have no regrets, but are looking forward to the end of state aid. David Walker reports

  • Coface reveals effects of governmental support for trade credit insurers

    11 February 2021

    Ceding risk to public programmes takes almost five points off combined ratio

  • German trade insurers win further six months' breathing room

    29 December 2020

    Public-private umbrella protection programme extended to June 2021

  • Trade insurers voice support for UK government plan

    14 May 2020

    UK scheme follows others in Germany, France and Belgium

  • Coface choses Duco for IFRS 17 implementation

    29 April 2020

    Credit insurer described Duco as a "genuine disruptor" in data reconciliation