Coface Business Information: Take the right decisions!

Drive your business based on our Business Intelligence tools.

From Business Information to Business Intelligence

We combine commercial information available worldwide with analyses from our credit insurance business. These data are enriched by our 700 experts, who integrate strategic, unique and sometimes confidential information into the analyses we have developed to guide and help you in your decision-making.

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Why choose Coface for your business information?

With over 80 years of expertise in credit insurance, Coface helps companies manage their commercial risks, both locally and globally:

  • A global network, providing access to approximately 240 million companies in over ~200 markets.
  • 12,000 credit risk decisions made every day based on Coface information. 
  • In-depth expertise, with more than 700 underwriters and risk analysts worldwide. Enough to support more than ~€715 billion in insured risks.

Information enhanced by Coface’s credit insurance expertise

  • Boost growth

    What new markets could you expand into? What are the risks involved? How reliable are your export partners? Move forward with confidence thanks to our information and insights.

  • Ensure business continuity

    Our information solutions enable you to monitor the financial strength of your suppliers to avoid supply chain disruptions.

  • Analyse risks

    We provide you with the information, analysis and advice you need to simplify your credit assessments and enable you to offer the right terms to the right customers.

Expert opinion

Eric Joffin, Head of Enriched Information Centre, Coface

We integrate confidential balance sheets, several thousand per year, as well as unpaid debts received via our clients. This information is compiled to be included in the calculation of our Score.

Guillaume Huguet, Director of the Data Lab, Coface

By combining our expertise with the richness of our data and the power of technology, our clients benefit from intelligent solutions to manage risk.

Coface Business Information to anticipate risks: A Case study

An information and communication technology (ICT) company had a long-standing partnership with a customer specialising in household appliances. The company used Urba360 to closely monitor this customer's financial health. In 2019, it noticed continuous losses, which led to payment problems in 2022. 

Thanks to Urba360 alerts, the company was able to track the customer's financial decline until it became insolvent. This enabled it to anticipate credit risks, prepare for disruptions and seek new, financially stable business partners to mitigate risks. 

They use Coface Business Information

Dassault Systèmes

Since 2022, Dassault Systèmes has been relying on Coface's business information services to manage its customer risk. Their credit management teams use  Coface Business Information to access data that they integrate into their decision-making: scores, credit opinions, sector and country analyses. 

Dassault Systèmes has also subscribed to the Economic Insights service, which provides it with monthly expertise and insights from Coface's underwriting team. These exchanges enable the sharing of analyses and a review of priority issues. 

GEODIS

Geodis uses Urba360 to manage its commercial strategy and customer risk. With Coface Business Information, the company has key indicators to assess its partners: credit scores, payment behaviour and credit recommendations. Geodis also benefits from the support of Coface's underwriting teams,  exchanging information on around ten companies every month. 

Geodis teams appreciate the standardisation of data, which facilitates the analysis of companies wherever they are  in the world, and the concept of shared risk, since the data accessed by the company is the same as that used on a daily basis by Coface's underwriting teams to make over 13,000  credit decisions everyday. 

MACSTEEL

For nearly 20 years, Macsteel has been using Coface's risk management solutions, including credit insurance and, more recently, business information services. Their  risk management teams rely on Coface Global Solutions to monitor the company's global exposure in real time, including that of its subsidiaries. Using the interactive Coface Risk Dashboard, they can assess the performance of business partners and make quick decisions. This partnership enables Macsteel to assess the market in order to strengthen its global positioning by aligning its terms and conditions with those of its competitors. 

Three levels of analysis to enhance business information

Data is leveraged and harnessed through three levels of analysis: descriptive, predictive and prescriptive. Combined, they provide a strategic advantage that enables you to make informed decisions. Anticipate risks and opportunities, identify trends and improve your operational efficiency.

  • Descriptive data

    Our company information provides a detailed and factual analysis of past events, which informs our clients' decisions by giving them a better understanding of a company's situation.

  • Predictive data

    Our models and algorithms are used to construct the Coface Score, which illustrates our predictive information with an assessment of a company's risk of default over a 12-month period.

  • Prescriptive data

    Based on exclusive financial data, our credit recommendations determine the best approach to take to minimise the risk of insolvency.