Business information: enhance your trade decisions with unique global insights

Access a unique window of insights into businesses worldwide with Coface

Leverage global business intelligence with Coface Business Information

We combine data from the global business information market with insights from our credit insurance operations. Our 700 analysts enrich this with proprietary company information—including payment behaviors and credit history that only a trade credit insurer can access. This business credit information directly supports your decision-making, giving you a unique window into how companies actually perform, not just what they report.

Why business information matters

Business information matters to companies because it supports informed decision-making, strategic planning, and competitive advantage by providing insights into operations, markets, and customer behaviour. In trade, accurate business information is essential for assessing the reliability and financial stability of suppliers, helping to mitigate risks in the supply chain. It also enables companies to evaluate potential customers’ creditworthiness and purchasing patterns, ensuring more secure and profitable business relationships.

Discover Coface Business Information

Why choose Coface Business Information for your UAE trade operations?

With 80 years of global expertise in trade credit insurance, Coface delivers business information services trusted by companies managing risk across borders:

  • Company information across 200 countries—from UAE trading partners to global suppliers.
  • Dedicated analysts monitoring sectors critical to UAE: construction, trade, energy, logistics.
  • 12,000 credit risk decisions made every day based on Coface information
  • 700 underwriters and risk analysts backing €715bn in trade decisions.

Reaping the benefits of Coface's global business intelligence

The right information at the right time is a competitive advantage. Coface Business Information helps you anticipate non-payment, secure your supply chain, and expand into new markets with confidence. Whether you're vetting new customers, setting credit limits, or accelerating KYC—our business intelligence platform supports faster, safer decisions.

  • Risk Analysis for Global Markets

    Coface provides you with the information, analysis and advice you need to simplify your credit assessments and enable you to offer the right terms to the right customers.

  • Drive Growth in Global Markets

    What new markets could you enter? What are the risks of doing so? How reliable are your export partners? Go further and with confidence thanks to Coface's information and insights.

  • Ensure Operational Continuity in Global Business Environment

    COFACE's business intelligence allows you to monitor the financial quality of your suppliers to avoid any break in the supply chain.

Coface Business Information to anticipate risks: A Case study

An information and communication technology (ICT) company had a long-standing partnership with a customer specialising in household appliances. The company used Urba360 to closely monitor this customer's financial health. In 2019, it noticed continuous losses, which led to payment problems in 2022. 

Thanks to Urba360 alerts, the company was able to track the customer's financial decline until it became insolvent. This enabled it to anticipate credit risks, prepare for disruptions and seek new, financially stable business partners to mitigate risks. 

Look at a similar case from a UK-based customer: Argent Energy case study

They use Coface Business Information

Dassault Systèmes

Since 2022, Dassault Systèmes has been relying on Coface's business information services to manage its customer risk. Their credit management teams use Coface Business Information to access data that they integrate into their decision-making: scores, credit opinions, sector and country analyses. 

 

Dassault Systèmes has also subscribed to the Economic Insights service, which provides it with monthly expertise and insights from Coface's underwriting team. These exchanges enable the sharing of analyses and a review of priority issues. 

GEODIS

Geodis uses Urba360 to manage its commercial strategy and customer risk. With Coface Business Information, the company has key indicators to assess its partners: credit scores, payment behaviour and credit recommendations. Geodis also benefits from the support of Coface's underwriting teams, exchanging information on around ten companies every month.

 

Geodis teams appreciate the standardisation of data, which facilitates the analysis of companies wherever they are  in the world, and the concept of shared risk, since the data accessed by the company is the same as that used on a daily basis by Coface's underwriting teams to make over 12,000 credit decisions every day. 

Macsteel

For nearly 20 years, Macsteel has been using Coface's risk management solutions, including credit insurance and, more recently, business information services. Their risk management teams rely on Coface Global Solutions to monitor the company's global exposure in real time, including that of its subsidiaries. Using the interactive Coface Risk Dashboard, they can assess the performance of business partners and make quick decisions. This partnership enables Macsteel to assess the market to strengthen its global positioning by aligning its terms and conditions with those of its competitors. 

Expert opinion

Eric Joffin, Head of Enriched Information Centre, Coface

We integrate confidential balance sheets, several thousand per year, as well as unpaid debts received via our clients. This information is compiled to be included in the calculation of our Score.

Guillaume Huguet, Director of the Data Lab, Coface

By combining our expertise with the richness of our data and the power of technology, our clients benefit from intelligent solutions to manage risk.

Three levels of analysis to enhance business information

Data is leveraged and harnessed through three levels of analysis: descriptive, predictive and prescriptive. Combined, they provide a strategic advantage that enables you to make informed decisions. Anticipate risks and opportunities, identify trends and improve your operational efficiency.

  • Predictive Data

    Our models and algorithms are used to construct the Coface Score, which illustrates our predictive information with an assessment of a company's risk of default over a 12-month period.

  • Descriptive Data

    Our company information provides a detailed and factual analysis of past events, which informs our clients' decisions by giving them a better understanding of a company's situation.

  • Prescriptive Data

    Based on exclusive financial data, our credit recommendations determine the best approach to take to minimise the risk of insolvency.

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