Trade Credit insurance is a straightforward, cost effective way to ensure you get paid for good and services you supply. In an increasingly difficult economic climate Trade Credit insurance protects you from the risk of bad debts when your clients become insolvent.

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Protect your cash flow and profitability

Trade Credit insurance is a straightforward, cost effective way to ensure you get paid for goods and services you supply.

In an increasingly difficult economic climate, Trade Credit insurance protects you from the risk of bad debts when your clients become insolvent. This enables you to protect your cash flow and profitability providing confidence to offer large lines of credit to your clients. Alongside claim payments Trade Credit insurance provides information, monitoring services and support via in-house debt collection or reimbursement for independent debt collection. Lockton work with Slater Byrne Recoveries to ensure the best outcomes for our clients.

Lockton’s team utilise decades of experience, having held senior regional positions with global insurers and brokers, bringing an enviable combination of service, credit risk, analytics and structuring expertise to the market.

We work closely with corporate c-suites, banks and financial institutions to ensure the most appropriate structures are designed and implemented. Our team can structure and negotiate entire credit and political risk solutions with claims and recovery guidance through to complex cross-border insurance solutions.

Data analysis is critical

Our underwriters have sophisticated commercial databases and employ teams of credit analysts throughout the world to constantly monitor your exposures, allowing the policy to become a credit management tool that can help you to avoid bad debts in the first place. This enables you to trade with the confidence to take on new customers and provide increased credit lines to existing clients knowing your outstandings are insured. This is especially useful during a difficult economic cycle.

Our Products and Services

We offer a range of trade credit covering:

  • Whole of turnover

  • Excess of loss

  • Major buyer

  • Single risk

  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

  • Mid to long term contracts (1-5 years)

  • Structured products incorporating security and asset finance

  • Asset finance

  • Financial institution cover

  • Receivable and supplier financing

Key Contacts

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Liam Berry

National Manager, Trade Credit, Surety and Political Risk
liam.berry@lockton.com
+61 481 438 374

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