Atradius launches a Food & Drink Accelerator programme for UK SMEs.

Atradius has announced a free online Food & Drink Accelerator for UK SMEs, launching in early 2026, to help food and drink businesses build resilience and plan for growth amid rising insolvency risk. The programme offers short modules (around 45-60 minutes) covering supply-chain resilience, export confidence (regulation, currency and market exposure), late-payment protection (credit policies […]

Coface plans to scale its Business Information/data services.

Coface CEO Xavier Durand recently gave an interview to Le Point magazine, now available on Coface’s website, in which he highlights that Coface’s growth plan is to scale its Business Information/data services alongside trade credit insurance. He notes this activity already represents around 4-5% of group revenue and is growing by about 15% per year, helping Coface […]

33% of small UK SMEs have not heard of trade credit insurance.

The Association of British Insurers’ (ABI) report, ‘Small Business, Big Risk: Tackling SME Underinsurance’, finds that awareness of trade credit insurance is lowest among the smallest firms: 58% of sole traders and businesses with 1-9 employees say they have never heard of it, while familiarity is higher among larger SMEs (50–249 employees). Across the full […]