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Asia Payment Survey 2023

In 2022, Asian businesses took a more stringent approach to credit terms amid a year of aggressive rate hikes, tighter financial conditions and higher inflation.
Check out now which countries and sectors are less affected now.

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Lost illusions and great expectations in Coface Barometer for Q2-2023

The year 2023 began with great enthusiasm, but in all likelihood it will not be the year that most observers and investors were expecting.

Read our economists' forecasts to understand what to expect in the coming months.

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Country Risks Assessment map Q2-2023

This is our latest edition of the Coface Country Risk Map.

Consult and download Coface's risk assessments of 164 countries across the world.

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Sector risk assessment infographics Q2-2023

In a context that we explain in our barometer, Coface has made 26 changes to sector ratings: 13 reclassifications and 13 downgrades.

Find out which sectors in which regions are affected in our sector risk infographic.

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China Payment Survey 2023: Shorter payment delays but worsening credit conditions in chemicals and wood

The year 2022 was marked by a significant economic slowdown and stringent Covid response in China. In the face of tight liquidity and mobility restrictions that disrupted payment processes, Chinese businesses showed
greater flexibility in giving credit terms. Read our full publication

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CEE insolvencies study 2022

The Central and Eastern European (CEE) region has undergone significant economic changes over the past three years. A great heterogeneity, various support measures and legal changes have impacted significantly the insolvency trends.

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Poland Payment Survey 2023: Stock building makes payment delays shorter but only temporarily

Grzegorz Sielewicz, our economist for Central and Eastern Europe delivers his analysis after the survey on payment experience from 356 companies in Poland.

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CEE Top 500

COFACE CEE TOP 500
The 14th CEE Top 500 study provides an insight into the future and summarizes the region’s economic activity for the previous year. Moreover, it describes the condition of the 500 largest companies in CEE by their turnover.

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Coface CEE TOP 500 Companies - 2021 Edition

The 13th edition of CEE Top 500 study provides an insight into the future and summarizes the region’s economic activity for the previous year. Moreover, it describes the condition of the 500 largest companies in CEE by their turnover. This edition describes the struggles of the new Covid-19 pandemic environment as well as how companies adjusted to this new situation. In 2020, CEE companies adjusted well to the new pandemic environment even though the Top 500 companies’ turnover dropped in 2020 by 3.3%. Although many of them wouldn’t survive further lockdowns and restrictive measures without government subsidies, for others the Covid-19 pandemic was a period of profits and prosperity.

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Coface Adriatic/Balkan Top 50 - 2019 Edition

The Adriatic countries are small economies which are open for external trade with the majority of export volumes sent within the region as well as to Eurozone countries.

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Coface Baltic Top 50 - 2019 Edition

The Baltic region’s economic growth is strongly driven by domestic demand. The countries benefit from the favourable situation on the labour market as well as rebounding fixed asset investments. Nevertheless, the external environment remains crucial for the Baltic States. The share of exports of goods and services as a percentage of nominal GDP is especially high in Lithuania and Estonia, where it amounted to 82% and 72% respectively last year. In Latvia it was 59%, making dependence on foreign markets a further important factor.

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Corporate insolvencies in France: all good things come to an end

The third quarter of 2018 marks a turning point for companies in France: for the first time in two years, insolvencies increased by 2.3% compared to the same quarter of the year previous (...)

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Central & Eastern Europe Insolvencies: Good times come to an end

A favourable economic environment was not enough to reduce company insolvencies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). While average GDP growth accelerated to 4.5%, i.e. the highest level in nine years, insolvencies increased by 6.4%.

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Coface Adriatic/Balkan Top 50 - 2018 Edition

Last year saw solid economic activity in the Adriatic/Balkan region. However, this did not apply to all countries. The largest companies in the region took advantage from the economic growth and grew themselves by an impressive 17.0%, with Slovenian companies profiting the most (+22.6%). However, in the country ranking, Croatia took the lead as the home country for most companies (17). Overall net profits increased by 6.7% in 2017 and employment by 2.0%.

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Coface Baltic Top 50 - 2018 Edition

In 2017, the Baltic States benefited from a rebound in external demand. All countries recorded a high growth rate of exports. However, the ongoing increase in household consumption and a revival of investments made domestic demand the main driving force of these economies. The results of the largest companies in the region underline this positive economic development. Overall turnover increased by 9.8%. Net profits likewise developed well, posting a rise of 25.3% for all top 50 companies.

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Coface CEE TOP 500 Companies - 2018 Edition

Analyses show a strong and expanding CEE region with decreasing risks in 2017, which also translated into higher revenues and net profits at the region’s 500 largest businesses. Competition at the top is getting more intense.

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Businesses in Greece: finally, a fresh start?

With Greece about to pull out of its third bailout package, signs of economic recovery are multiplying: 2017 was a year marked by the return of positive growth (+1.4%), and - despite weakening growth in the eurozone - Greek GDP growth is expected to be close to 2% in 2018, with Greek households and businesses remaining more optimistic in the first half of the year than in 2017.

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Central and Eastern Europe: Less business insolvencies despite temporary headwinds in the construction sector

Political changes in the US have caused uncertainty over the trade policies that could be implemented and the region’s vulnerability to tighter financial conditions. Since Donald Trump’s victory, the currencies of many emerging countries have fallen against the dollar. Mexico’s currency was the most greatly affected in the world, with 19 % depreciation against the USD in 2016

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Coface CEE Top 500 Companies - 2017 edition

The CEE Top 500 ranks the 500 biggest companies in the region by turnover. These top players increased their turnover by 4.2% to nearly 593 billion EUR and enlarged their staff by 0.5%.

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Panorama - The rise and rise of political risks

Political risk seems to have been at the core of concerns since 2016, following numbers of articles and editorials on the topic.

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