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The annual update of Coface's Political Risk Index, published in the Coface Q3 Barometer, highlights a dual trend: on the one hand, a decrease in the risk of conflict at a global level, but on the other, an increase in the risk of political…

The COVID-19 health crisis has had a negative impact on short-term global renewable energy development, and challenges remain in the medium- to long-term, according to a recent Coface study. Renewables have strengthened rapidly in the last…

In the current situation marked by numerous economic challenges, Coface Romania supports companies by launching Diagnostic, a unique product on the business information market in Romania. The new product develops a risk profile of a subject…

The transport sector  is not expected to recover to fourth quarter 2019 level before 2022, reads a Coface study. In Coface’s central scenario, the turnover of listed companies of the global transport sector will be 32% lower in the 4th…

Although the second quarter of 2020 is shaping up to be the most challenging period of the year, there are now good reasons to think that the road to recovery will be long and arduous. Despite immediate tax deferrals, liquidity guarantees,…

Early 2020 marked by a sudden interruption in world trade, hampered by a global recession and soaring uncertainty. The global recession is expected to coincide with a sharp decline in international trade this year, especially…

While the focus so far has mainly been on China, Europe, and the United States, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be even more severe for emerging economies. Even though their degree of vulnerability to this shock…

At first, the COVID-19 epidemic in China only affected a limited number of value chains – but it has since turned into a global pandemic. Its repercussions have created a double shock – supply and demand – that is affecting a large number…

The majority of insolvencies were registered in the wholesale and distribution sector followed by the constructions and retail sectors. The most recent Coface Romania study shows that in 2019 there were 6,384 insolvent…

Hit by increasingly stringent regulations, particularly for environmental purposes, the global automotive industry is facing a downturn and is being forced to reinvent itself, a Coface survey says. In a gloomy global economic context,…