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Factoring enables businesses to improve cash flow quickly while reducing the administrative burden of managing receivables. However, it is not always the most suitable solution for every company. Depending on your business model, customer base, and financial objectives, alternative options may offer a better fit. Explore the main alternatives to factoring and their key advantages.
Late payments and unpaid invoices are a major source of stress for businesses. And for good reason: they are responsible for around a quarter of all bankruptcies.
Coface announces a strategic partnership with LSEG Risk Intelligence to integrate World-Check One into Urba360, its business information platform. This collaboration enables companies to access, through a single interface, Coface’s credit risk data alongside globally recognised compliance tools, helping them secure their commercial decisions in an increasingly demanding regulatory environment.
Swiss SMEs approach the future with cautious optimism. According to recent studies, 69% of employers consider their economic situation "good" or "very good", with only 3% reporting difficulties. However, behind this confidence lie major challenges: difficult economic conditions, digitalization, recruitment, and energy transition. In this race for competitiveness, an often underestimated pillar can put a company at risk: proactive accounts receivable management, crucial for protecting cash flow.
With over 30 years of continuous growth, DCS Group has become the UK’s leading distributor of major household and personal care brands. As a trusted supply chain organisation, it delivers an unmatched range of market-leading products to its customers. As DCS expands, it relies on Coface as a vital partner in reaching its goals.
Better assess your risks with Coface's global risk assessments for 160 countries and 13 sectors.
Since coming on stream over a year ago, Coface has provided valuable business insights so Argent Energy can evaluate potential clients and make swift but effective decisions to support its UK and international operations.
In this new episode of our Data & Tech @Coface series, Yoann Mourin opens the doors to his daily universe: cybersecurity. From real-time incident management to AI-powered anticipation strategies and operational and financial risk assessment, find out what goes on behind the scenes of Coface's digital defence and explore the cyber challenges shaping the future of finance.
He wears many hats, his projects combine technological innovation and environmental responsibility, and he spends all his days with DORA (the regulation, not the explorer!). Between operational resilience and Green IT, our expert's day-to-day work embodies the new reality of Data & Tech jobs at Coface. Selected highlights.
Debt collection can be challenging, especially when doing business internationally. While the process may seem straightforward in your home country, once you step outside familiar borders, the rules of engagement shift dramatically. Cultural norms, legal frameworks, and payment behaviour all vary, making it essential to tailor your collection strategy to each specific market.
As with our commercial risk management services, our digital solutions support our clients and partners in their business transformation. Connectivity, generative AI, UX/UI design: our Solutions Development & Architecture expert shares his experience on the added value of data and how new technologies impact the solutions designed by Coface.
GDP, export volumes, inflation, political and social risk index: today, economists' work is fundamentally data-driven. Their assessments of a country or sector's commercial risk fully integrate data and advanced analytical solutions. In this new episode, our colleague Aroni Chaudhuri shares his challenges and explains how he leverages data and tech to offer unique insights to our clients and help them trade smarter.
How does the Coface team evaluate transactions and business partners? The answer lies in a decisive indicator: the Coface Score. More than a simple rating, the Coface Score serves as a global benchmark for assessing the financial reliability of both existing and potential partners. For CEOs and CFOs of Swiss SMEs — especially those operating internationally — understanding this score is essential to make sound business decisions.
From an urgent curative solution to preventive management of unpaid bills: how the French champion of stylish skiwear transformed its approach to client risk with Coface's Debt Collection and Trade Credit Insurance services, clearing its old debts and ensuring its commercial development.
The largest family run milling group in Germany rely on Coface for over 25 years. Operating also abroad, the company uses Coface Premium Services to upgrade its trade credit insurance with proactive risk management and dedicated support. Bindewald & Gutting Group explains how the company benefits from Coface's expertise to further develop its business and effectively mitigate client risk.
A growing need for high added-value data and powerful key indicators to anticipate non-payments and master customer risk: who said that Business Information services were only for large companies? Sharing experience and use cases of Coface's Business Information solutions with Nicolas Brion, from Moine Recyclage, a French SME with that manages its commercial risks with Urba360.
Trade Credit Insurance, Surety Bonds and Business Information services: whether to cover its client risk, provide third-party guarantees or better control its supplier risk, Renault Group relies on Coface's leading global ecosystem and expert solutions to mitigate its commercial risks. And this, since 1958!
For over fifteen years, JJA—formerly a family-run SME and now a thriving international mid-sized company—has trusted Coface to secure its receivables, including non-insured debts both in France and abroad.
Whether it involves comprehensive risk monitoring, evaluating a supplier’s financial health, or guiding global investment decisions, Enedis relies on Coface's information services. Luba Kotyk, Head of Financial Risk Control, shares the benefits of Coface data and what sets it apart: the synergy of algorithm-driven insights and human expertise.
Managing trade receivables has become an increasingly intricate task for finance directors and credit managers. With multiplying risks, growing payment delays, and rising demands for effective digital tools, the landscape is more challenging than ever. So, what kind of leader will you be in 2025? Explore these five key insights to stay ahead.
Advanced analytics, predictive scoring, Deep Learning, Data Mining, financial modeling... At Coface, our Data Scientists harness the power of smart data, artificial intelligence, and Machine Learning to create predictive risk management solutions and enhance the client journey. For us, innovation is always business-driven!
Data has become a strategic driver of development for businesses. At Coface, our experts dedicate their daily efforts to collecting, analyzing, and enriching millions of data points. In this video, Nesrin Gonin shares how our unique data and advanced technologies enable clients to transition from Big Data to Smart Data, enhancing risk management and even anticipating risks.
Debt collection can be challenging, especially when doing business internationally. While the process may seem straightforward in your home country, once you step outside familiar borders, the rules of engagement shift dramatically. Cultural norms, legal frameworks, and payment behaviors all vary—making it essential to tailor your collection strategy to each specific market.
Discover how Macsteel, a global leader in steel trading, leverages Coface’s solutions to navigate a high-risk sector while gaining a competitive edge.
Global expertise in risk management, high service quality, and continuous dialogue—these are the key ingredients for the success and long-term partnership with Arkema, the international industrial group that has trusted Coface and its credit insurance program, Coface Global Solutions (CGS), for nearly a decade.
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