Customer risk assessment: Secure your B2B relationships with Coface

Protect your revenue with smart credit risk management by checking customers’ financial health

How Coface’s customer risk assessment works

With our high value-added, data-driven risk assessment solutions, you can optimise customer risk management while identifying new opportunities for commercial growth. Our approach combines predictive risk analytics and a robust risk scoring model to support effective B2B risk management.

As a leading player in credit insurance, Coface provides always up-to-date, highly reliable business data to support accurate customer risk assessment and creditworthiness evaluation of your customers and prospects. With expertise in international trade risk management, Coface supports organisations in Belgium and worldwide through continuous real time risk monitoring, ensuring informed and secure commercial decisions.

By integrating our insights directly into your risk assessment process, you can align your risk policies with your strategy, strengthen client risk analysis and ensure informed commercial decision-making. This holistic approach supports long-term resilience through improved credit portfolio risk, business continuity risk assessment and predictive risk management.

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Make confident decisions based on clear and reliable credit risk assessments

Access the same enriched data we use daily as a credit insurer and gain a clear view of your business partners’ financial health.

Perform a reliable customer risk assessment with our Score (Debtor Risk Assessment), a simple 0 to 10 risk scoring model that helps anticipate potential payment defaults within 12 months.

Set precise recommended credit limits for each customer or prospect with personalised credit recommendations from our experts.

Our business solution supports data-driven risk assessment and real time risk monitoring, helping you make informed decisions and strengthen your B2B risk management.

Customer risk assessment with exclusive, up-to-date Information

Our business information data comes from local sources in 200 countries and goes far beyond what is publicly available. It is enriched by our analysts, our expert underwriters and our on-the-ground payment behaviour insights.

The result: unique data that is updated in real time, and presented in the form of intuitive tools and operational indicators giving you everything you need for proactive and strategic risk management.

Start your customer risk management process with Coface

How to start your customer risk assessment with Coface

Urba360 from Coface Business Information offers you an intuitive and powerful solution for assessing customer credit risks across your entire portfolio. Access high added-value insights giving you the ability to react quickly and steer your commercial strategy with confidence.

  • 6 key indicators for assessing your business partners

    Consult key data at a glance: financial health score, recommended credit limit, sector and geographic trends, payment history and more. Reliable information for anticipating risks and protecting your cashflow.

  • A network of 700 risk experts at your service

    Assessment of risk starts with a network of 700 risk experts at your service. Our analysts, based around the globe, provide you with cutting-edge expertise that draws on macroeconomic studies, sector-based analyses, country assessments and specialised reports. Base your decision-making on reputable insights

  • Monitoring of 715 billion euros in outstanding amount

    Rely on the same high-quality business information that we use to safeguard transactions and financial commitments worth billions of euros worldwide.

  • Data about 240 million business in 200 countries

    Take advantage of exclusive access to one of the broadest business data networks in the world to gain a better insight into your prospects, suppliers and customers.

Real-world use cases and industries served

Geodis

Geodis is a worldwide transport and logistics leader that supports its clients in their daily work by helping them overcome their logistical constraints while leveraging customer risk assessment and B2B risk management to make informed decisions.

The company draws on the complementary strengths of Coface’s business information solutions. On the one hand, the URBA360 platform enables its employees to make fast, informed business decisions on the basis of a clear overview of key indicators such as credit scores, payment behaviour and credit opinions. On the other hand, Geodis benefits from a tailored approach by utilising the cutting-edge analyses carried out by Coface’s underwriting team, with monthly discussions focusing on a selection of strategically important companies.

Geodis places particular value on two aspects of this collaboration: data uniformity, which ensures its seamless consistency with the data used internally by Coface’s analysts and the principle of shared risk, enabled by full transparency of information and real time risk monitoring, supporting data-driven risk assessment across its operations.

Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes is a global leader in 3D modeling and engineering software.

The company has been using Coface’s full range of business information services since 2022 to support effective customer risk assessment. The Credit Management teams rely on the iCON by Coface platform to access credit scores, credit risk assesments, and sector and area-based credit analyses.

In addition, Dassault Systèmes leverages the Economic Insights product. This mechanism includes regular contact with Coface’s risk underwriting experts at monthly meetings held to analyse sensitive cases, apply predictive risk analytics, share insights into economic trends and make decisions on critical cases.

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