About Coface

Our history

The Coface group has contributed since its establishment to the performance and growth of businesses.

While becoming more and more international, the Coface group has contributed since its establishment to the performance and growth of businesses of all sizes worldwide, and to building and conveying a climate of trust among economic players.
1946 :
  • Establishment of Coface, a French company specialising in export credit insurance.
1992 :
  • Start of international expansion. Gradual development of the network in new countries, most notably Germany and Austria in 1991 and UK and Italy in 1992.
  • Creation of Coface Partners, a worldwide network of insurance companies, business information agencies, multiline insurance companies and factoring companies.
1994 :
  • Coface privatised. The Group continues to handle public guarantees on behalf of the French State.
  • Coface introduces business information and debt collection services in Bulgaria.
2006 :
  • Coface becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Natixis, the financing, asset management and financial services arm of the BPCE Group, France’s second largest banking group.
2008 :
  • Coface opens its insurance branch in Bulgaria being now the only international credit insurer with long-term engagement in the country.
2011 :
  • Activities refocused on credit insurance, its traditional core business.
2012 :
  • Direct presence in 66 countries.
  • Guarantees delivered in nearly 200 countries.
  • Launch of Coface Global Solutions (a set of services aimed at multinationals) and Top Liner (complementary cover to the classic credit insurance).
2013 :
  • The new identity of Coface - the Group presents its new logo and corporate branded image.
2014 :
  • Success of the Coface IPO on the regulated market of Euronext Paris. As of July 2nd 2014, the resulting shareholding is as follows: Public: 58.50%; Natixis: 41.24%; Employees: 0.26%.
  • Direct presence in 67 countries.
  • Guarantees delivered in nearly 200 countries.
  • Coface starts CofaMove - a mobile app for credit insurance policy management.
2015 :
  • Coface Bulgaria launches new credit insurance products - EasyLiner for small and medium enterprises and TradeLiner for big companies.
  • Coface launches Policy Master - new solutions for online management of the policy which compares the real outstandings and the credit limits and sends reminder for Notifications of overdue account
2017 :
  • Ukraine serviced by Coface Central European Holding AG
 
2019 :
  • Launch of Business Finder
  • Acquisition of PKZ, the leading credit insurance company in Slovenia
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