rieur from wikipedia the free encyclopedia jump to navigation search coface redirects here . for a simplex which has another simplex as a face see simplex . coface building in mainz germany the compagnie fran aise d assurance pour le commerce ext rieur coface is a globally operating french credit insurer offering companies solutions to protect them against the risk of financial default of their clients both in the domestic market and for export . in 2011 the group posted a consolidated turnover of 1.6 billion . 4 600 staff in 66 countries provide a local service worldwide . each quarter coface publishes its assessments of country risk for 157 countries based on its knowledge of companies payment behaviour and on the expertise of its 250 underwriters . in france coface manages public export guarantees on behalf of the french state acting as france s export credit agency . coface provides guarantees or insurance on accounts receivable arising from the sales of commercial goods and services on credit terms of 30 day and 60 day time scales especially for export companies as an alternative to making the foreign purchaser obtain a letter of credit sometimes on longer time scales ; it manages state guarantees for exports by french corporations ; and also provides some other international support for exporters . coface is a world leader in trade credit information and protection trade credit insurance serving 160 000 clients in 93 countries . citation needed the company has been expanding into the related fields of trade finance including factoring and accounts receivable management . in 2007 together with creditreform coface launched an international identifier easynumber which it assigns to every single business unit of an economic actor . this service is managed by a joint venture easynumber company sa . 1 contents 1 history and ownership 2 products 3 country risks rating 4 equivalent in the world 5 references 6 external links history and ownership edit coface was founded in 1946 as the french export credit agency . it was privatized by the government in 1994 and continued as a commercial enterprise . 2 in 2014 coface was introduced at the stock echange euronext paris thus now having this stock distribution public 58 50 % natixis 41 24 % employees 0 26 % products edit in the uk and ireland coface uk provides accounts receivable insurance trade credit insurance single risk and political risk protection international business information commercial collection services country risk information receivables finance performance bonds & duty deferment guarantees surety in north america coface north america provides accounts receivable insurance trade credit insurance single risk and political risk protection receivables finance international business information commercial collection services kompass business to business search engine country risk information in australia coface services australia provides company information receivables management receivables protection trade credit insurance receivables financing country risks rating edit this section s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . november 2010 coface assigns a rating to each of the 150 countries it monitors ; this rating reflects the average risk of short term non payment for companies in this country . seven families are used a1 steady political and economic environment good payment record of companies very weak default probability a2 political and economic environment or payment record of companies not as good as a1 default probability being still weak a3 payment record usually lower than a1 and a2 likely to be modified by adverse political or economic circumstances probability of a payment default being still low a4 patchy payment record likely to be modified by a deteriorating political and economic environment probability of a default being still acceptable b unsteady political and economic environment usually poor payment record c very unsteady political and economic environment frequently bad payment record d high risk profile of the economic and political environment very bad payment record . coface country risks rating 2006 . a1 a2 a3 a4 b c d not available equivalent in the world edit germany euler hermes united states export import bank of the united states united kingdom uk export finance italy servizi assicurativi del commercio estero references edit creditreform and coface present the easy number to partners from around the world . cfo news.com . retrieved 2012 05 04 . coface history . external links edit official website kompass international website bdicoface international website bdicode israel s leading companies ranking v t e present international credit insurance & surety association icisa members ace usa united states acredia versicherung ag ex prisma austria afianzadora latinoamericana argentina amlin bermuda arch re europe ireland argo surety united states askrindo indonesia aspen re europe switzerland atradius netherlands axa assurcredit france axa winterthur switzerland axis re ireland catlin re switzerland cesce spain china national investment & guaranty company china china pacific insurance co. ltd china chubb united states clal israel coface france cosec portugal cgic south africa credimundi ex ducroire delcredere belgium ecics singapore endurance switzerland euler hermes france fianzas atlas mexico garant austria the guarantee company of north america canada groupama assurance cr dit france hannover re worldwide hcc international uk icic israel liberty mutual usa lombard insurance company south africa mitsui sumitomo japan munich re worldwide nationale borg netherlands novae group plc uk partner re worldwide picc china ping an p & c china qatar re qbe insurance australia r v re germany sace bt italy scor global p & c se worldwide seoul guarantee insurance company korea sid first credit slovenia sompo japan japan swiss re worldwide tokio marine & nichido fire japan travelers insurance usa tryg garanti denmark zurich insurance group zurich insurance plc niederlassung f r deutschland germany zurich north america usa zurich global corporate surety uk retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title compagnie fran aise d % 27assurance pour le commerce ext rieur & oldid 732660690 categories insurance companies of franceexport credit agenciescredit rating agencieshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013articles with obsolete information from november 2010all wikipedia articles in need of updating navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran ais italianoportugu srom n suomi edit links this page was last modified on 2 august 2016 at 11 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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