A guide to credit insurance for suppliers

As risks rise, so do insurer demands in trade finance. This guide demystifies insurance in cross-border trade, giving suppliers enough grounding to approach insurers with confidence, rather than arriving blind. Understanding the basics makes traders more attractive to insurers. Drawing on our work with major players in the cross-border trade space, this guide stands to give more information to the prospect pool. This guide is for any business in trade finance, but especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) importing and exporting for the first time. It is designed to serve as a resource that an insurer might provide to a prospective client - covering everything the insurer will require of that client, and everything the client needs to understand about the insurer's offering. But, using Trade Finance Global’s (TFG) vast and global network, it will be free to access and stand to democratise the industry. Two areas of particular complexity are addressed directly: the range of parties with whom insurers interact, and the degree to which insurance offerings vary across regions.