CREDIT INSURANCE
Purpose
of the product
Credit Insurance is a product design especially for export firms
and/or firms that work with
Post-dated-check system. This product will give assurance and
control the risks of payment collections due to post dated system.
With
help of this insurance (within the policy coverage) firms
will be able to get their receivable payment under assurance
from domestic and international clients, and this will provide them
with better capacity for export and national business.
Coverage
By
this policy, countries which are under assurance will be covered for
goods and services within the parameters of limits of this
insurance, up to 180 days of term for one year period for their
receivable payments.
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Since this is a global policy, there will not be any need to prepare
a new and separate documents for pre-determined countries which are
under assurance for their deliveries.
They
will be considered under coverage under this policy.
In
case, a bankruptcy or non payment or this type of business related
risks occur by these international companies the policy will have
coverage within it’s limits as well.
Coverage starts when products are delivered to the transport company
by the exporter. At this point, the coverage continues in case the
receiver reneges the products.
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Advantages
1.1
Marketing / Support in developing sales strategies
During the time when credit limits for the receivers are
established, insurer will gather detailed financial information
about target customers of export company and find out about their
strenght in business.
This
will help to determine risk factors for the insured company to
reduce their margin of error in choosing the right clients.
On
the other hand, it will also help them to major on the stronger
customers with real and right strategies.
1.2
Risk
Management
Usually the export companies get their products from different
countries of the world within same market. If one company is orderly
paying their payables to one firm does not necessarly means they
will be orderly for the other companies.
Since one export company will not be able to have knowledge of a
customer’s financial status other then their dealings with its own,
he will not access risks clearly. However, owner of credit insurance
policy would be able to get all this information about all the
dealings of their customers.
By
determining and examing the risks customers are taking and by
analyzing them, the insurer could determine the future risks on time
and inform the insured. If it is necessary due to a unforseen risk,
customers credit limit will be reduced or even canceled to recover
from further risks.(All businesses up to notice day will be
covered)
Advantages
Export Credit Insurance, accesses the exports as a whole there is no
unnecessary documentation and transaction per invoice. This is a
great advantage for the insured export company to save time and
money.
Customer will not be informed that the exporter company is insured
since there will be no direct contacts with the customers and
customer still make its payment to the export company. Insurer will
only get involve, if a risk occurs.