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About us

Empowering businesses since 1925

What we do
Managing risk, enabling trade

As specialists in trade credit insurance, surety and debt collections, we're committed to building strong relationships with our customers. We value loyalty and always strive to understand your business inside and out to suggest the best policies for your unique situation.

Achievements
Key facts and figures
95%
customer retention rate
3,500
colleagues worldwide
50+
countries where we're located
2.5
billion total revenue
Corporate information
Strong, prudent, organic growth

Our core strategy is to help our customers thrive in changing and even challenging economic conditions. This underpins our growth and can be seen in our strong ratings. These, along with our annual reports and shareholder information, are available on our Atradius Corporate pages.

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History
The Atradius journey

Our history spans a century and features both mergers and organic growth. Throughout this time our focus has always been on supporting and enabling trade.

Nederlandsche Credietverzekering Maatschappij (NCM), one of the first companies to become Atradius, was founded in the Netherlands.

 

1925

Crédito y Caución was founded in Spain, before organically growing to become the dominant credit insurer and surety company on the Iberian Peninsula.

1929

NCM partnered with the Dutch government to provide export credit services to Dutch companies on behalf of the Dutch State. This relationship still exists today through our affiliate Atradius Dutch State Business.

1932

Gerling-Konzern Speziale Kreditversicherung (Gerling Credit) was established in Germany.

1954

Gerling Credit and NCM merged to become GERLING NCM.

2001

GERLING NCM rebranded to become Atradius. At the same time Swiss Re, Deutsche Bank, Sal. Oppenheim, Seguros Catalana Occidente and Crédito y Caución replaced Gerling Group as shareholders.

2004

Grupo Catalana Occidente S.A. became the major shareholder of Atradius and Atradius teamed up with Crédito y Caución to further strengthen its position in global credit insurance markets.

 

2008

We are one of the world’s leading credit insurance companies, a trusted provider of trade credit insurance, surety and collections services in more than 50 countries worldwide.

 

Today
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Sustainability
Advancing trade with sustainability in mind

As one of the world’s largest credit insurers, we strive to use our global influence to have a positive impact and help make trade more sustainable.

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