Navigate uncertainty with Coface's global risk assessments covering more than 160 countries and 13 sectors.
Ranked fourth in the World’s Most Trustworthy Companies 2026 list in the Insurance category by the American magazine Newsweek, Coface is the first and only French company to feature amongst the 28 insurers on this list, which measures the trust of clients, investors and employees.
With a strong background in credit insurance, Rachel Fleming will lead the company’s Financial Institutions business and advance its growth ambitions across the region.
As geopolitics and tariffs disrupt international trade, U.S. companies are facing risk throughout their global supply chains. For Coface, one of the world’s leading credit insurers, predicting this risk is core to the business and how it decides which clients and industries to insure. Now, Coface is expanding access to the business intelligence and credit-risk expertise that supports its underwriting decisions, helping companies identify potential vulnerabilities across customers and suppliers and take action earlier.
The diversification of textile supply chains away from China is already underway, accelerated by the numerous changes to US trade policy since 2025. Whilst these US textile tariffs now appear to have stabilised, the balance of power amongst clothing-producing countries is undergoing significant upheaval. In 2025, Coface published a study ranking the most competitive countries for textile production outside China. This ranking has now been updated to reflect the most recent US tariffs.
What we dreaded at the beginning of the summer eventually came to pass. Rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again, placing increasing weight on commodity prices and financial conditions, and therefore on economic activity. Coface consequently carried out 3 country downgrades and 4 upgrades, and made 20 changes to sector assessments (12 downgrades and 8 upgrades).
Prices for copper and nickel could roughly double over the next decade as demand from construction, electrification and clean energy outpaces what mines and refiners can deliver, according to Back to the Future (Cycle), a new industrial metals report from our Coface economists. The report projects that aluminum, copper and nickel will face supply deficits averaging around 10% of demand by 2035.
A sanction imposed, a change in shareholder ownership, an escalation in geopolitical tensions – and a reliable partner can become a high-risk trade relationship from one day to another. More complex and fast-moving than ever, compliance risk now arises from multiple, often invisible, sources. Sanctions, reputation, ownership links, investigations, adverse media: the signals evolve quickly and go far beyond financial data. Our experts reveal how to monitor your partners effectively without slowing down your business.
With 530 million consumers, North America is a key region for global trade and exports from countries around the world. It is a robust market, but business cultures vary significantly from one country to another. Discover advice from our local experts on tailoring your strategy to each geography and collecting outstanding debts more effectively.
As AI gradually is embedded in their decision-making processes, companies must find the right balance between technological promise, operational constraints, risk management and value creation. Data quality, governance, AI agents, human expertise: explore key innovations and strategies that will fundamentally transform your organisation in the years to come.
Operating across both FMCG and Shell lubricants, Elgeka-Ferfelis navigates two markets with very different risk profiles. But with one clear strategy: protect sales while preserving its ability to grow. Identifying reliable partners, anticipating difficulties and making the right decisions in real time without slowing down business operations: Elgeka-Ferfelis demonstrates how an open approach to trade risk management, powered by Coface's trade credit insurance and Business Information solutions, is opening up new avenues for growth.
Do we really have to decide between growth and caution? Today, one in two decision-makers admits that it is easier to say ‘no’ to a risky opportunity than to build a secure ‘yes’. A risk culture that silently holds back the growth of many companies. Our Open Advantage roadmap, which brings together advice from the highest-performing organisations, helps you understand how to turn your risk teams into true allies for your growth and keep your world open.
As a global supplier of spare parts for commercial aircraft, Sentry Aerospares often operates under pressure, dealing with demanding international clients, sometimes unstable markets, strained supply chains and critical payment deadlines. For nearly ten years, the UK-based company has relied on Coface to turn this pressure into a driver of its development, rather than a hindrance to its growth.
Navigate uncertainty with Coface's global risk assessments covering more than 160 countries and 13 sectors.
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