Industry Insurance Headquarters Amsterdam Founded 2001 Net income 1.7 billion EUR (2015) | Number of locations 160 offices Number of employees 3,300 Type of business Trade credit insurer | |
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Area served Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Oceania, South America Key people Isidoro Unda, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2008), Andreas Tesch, Christian van Lint, Claus Gramlich-Eicher, Marc Henstridge Products Export Credit Insurance, Bonding, Instalment Credit Protection (ICP), Reinsurance Business, Collections Revenue EUR€ 1,718.8 milion
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Atradius corporate video 2014
Atradius provides trade credit insurance, surety and collections services worldwide through a presence in 50 countries. It is the credit insurance arm of Grupo Catalana Occidente (GCO.MC). Credit insurance, bonding and collections products help protect companies throughout the world from payment risks associated with selling products and services on trade credit. In 2015 the company had revenues of €1.7 billion. The company is rated 'A (excellent) out look stable' by A.M. Best and 'A3 outlook stable' by Moody's
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Atradius credit insurance
History
The roots of Atradius can be found in the 2001 acquisition by German insurer Gerling-Konzern Speziale Kreditversicherung (Gerling Credit) of Dutch insurer Nederlandsche Credietverzekering Maatschappij (NCM). The company was then branded as GERLING NCM.
Gerling Credit was established in 1954 as the credit insurance arm of the Gerling-Konzern insurance group of Cologne. In 1962 it opened its first international branch office in Switzerland and was the first private credit insurer to offer export credit protection.
NCM had been founded in 1925 with the goal of improving trade for companies in the Netherlands. From 1932 onwards it also became the arm of the Dutch government through which it provided export credit services to Dutch companies. Atradius still performs this function through its affiliate Atradius Dutch State Business.
Both Gerling Credit and NCM had made their own acquisitions before their combination, including the acquisition by NCM of the short-term arm of the UK government’s Export Credit Guarantee Department (ECGD) in 1991 and private insurers such as Namur Assurances du Crédit S.A., Belgium by Gerling Credit in 1994, both of which have their own histories dating back to the birth of trade credit insurance around 1919.
The now international group was renamed Atradius in 2004. In 2008 the group merged with the Spanish credit insurer Crédito y Caución, founded in 1929, and subsequently gained an additional foothold in the Spanish speaking world.
Atradius forms part of Grupo Catalana Occidente (GCO.MC), one of the leading insurers in Spain and worldwide in credit insurance.
The Atradius Group today is the amalgamation of a number of international trade credit insurers and affiliated organisations from around the world.
Although now Spanish owned, the holding company Atradius N.V. and its headquarters remain in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Products
Atradius products and services help manage the payment default risks - the risk that a buyer fails to pay for the products of services it buys on trade credit terms.
These products include:
Shareholders
Grupo Compañía Espanõla de Crédito y Caución, S.L. (Grupo CyC) is a holding company owned 73.84% by Grupo Catalana Occidente. Groupo CyC hold 64.23% of Atradius N.V.
Grupo Catalana Occidente S.A. (GCO) is, either directly or indirectly, the parent company of a group of insurance companies and it listed on the Barcelona and Madrid stock exchanges.
GCO has an economic stake in Atradius N.V. of 83.20%, of which 35.77% is directly owned and 47.43% is owned indirectly through Grupo CyC holding company.
Management
Atradius N.V. is a limited company organised under the laws of the Netherlands with a Management Board and a Supervisory board.
The Management board consists of:
The Supervisory Board has ten members and is responsible for monitoring and guiding the general affairs of Atradius and the policy of the Management Board.
The Supervisory Board includes: