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    How Can Asset Managers Optimize Trade Finance with Essential Tools?

    In the fast-paced world of global trade, optimizing trade finance is vital for asset managers aiming to maximize returns while mitigating credit risks. Effective tools and strategies can help streamline processes, manage liquidity, and protect investments. One indispensable solution in this context is trade credit insurance, which plays a pivotal role in securing receivables and reducing exposure to default risks. Below, we explore key tools every asset manager needs to optimize trade finance.

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    2025 Latin America corporate payment survey: longer payment terms and rising delays

    Coface publishes its 2025 survey on corporate payment behavior in Latin America, conducted among more than 300 companies across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. In a fragile economic environment, companies have extended their payment delays to support business activity, while the frequency of late payments has increased significantly.

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    South Africa stuck in a rut: how can it escape the trap of economic stagnation?

    Nearly two decades after joining the BRICS, South Africa has failed to deliver on its development promises. Per capita GDP in 2025 is below 2007 levels, with a marked deterioration in social indicators: unemployment, growing poverty and severely degraded infrastructure. Unlike its emerging peers in Asia and Latin America, the ‘Rainbow Nation’ has remained mired in low growth, hampered by two major structural constraints: the failure of the energy system and deep distortions in the labor market.

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    Navigate uncertainty with Coface's global risk assessments for 160 countries and 13 sectors. 

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    Coface Risk Review October 2025: The calm during the storm

    The global economy weathered the trade turmoil of the first half of 2025, but the coming quarters will see a spreading of the longer-term effects. The October 2025 Coface Risk Review analyses global dynamics, placing its focus on the surge in social and political risk, and the strategic challenges facing the Gulf countries.

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  • Risk Dashboard

    Navigate uncertainty with Coface's global risk assessments for 160 countries and 13 sectors. 

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