Coface's mission is to facilitate global business-to-business trade by offering its 130 000 customers four business lines to fully or partly outsource trade relationship management and to finance and protect their receivables: credit insurance, factoring, ratings and business information and receivables management. Thanks to the worldwide local service delivered by 6 600 staff in 67 countries, over 45% of the world's 500 largest corporate groups are already customers of Coface.

Country Risk Reviews:

Country Risk:

Consult the evolutions of Coface country ratings (re-examined each quarter),Country analysis and forecasts prepared by the Economic Research and Country Risk Department of Coface and methodology of Country Rating. The Coface country rating aims atevaluating the average credit risk of companies in a given country. The rating is based on economic, financial and political data. But it also takes into account Coface experience on the country, under two dimensions: Coface’s payment experience on the companies of the country and also its assessment of the Business climate. 

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Sectors:

In this section, you can find the evolutions of the sector ratings (reviewed twice a year), and the studies on sectors prepared by the Economic Research and Country Risk Department of Coface. Methodology of Sector Rating is also available.

The sector rating aims at evaluating the credit risk of corporate of a given sector. It uses Macroeconomic data and forecasts of the given sector, the payment experience registered by Coface on the companies of this sector and an assessment of the financial situation of the companies given by the Coface rating of the companies belonging to the rated sector. 

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Business Climate:

Consult the evolutions of Coface Business Climate rating and its methodology. The Business climate rating assessed by Coface aims at measuring the quality of the private governance in a given country and more specifically the financial transparency of companies and the efficiency of the court system for settling debt issues. It is bases on a survey filled by all Coface entities in the world and completed by business environment rating prepared by international organisation.

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