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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.

NCM founded in The Netherlands,with the aim of improving trading conditions for Dutch companies.

 

1925

Crédito y Caución is founded, becoming the first credit insurer in the Spanish market.

1929

NCM partners with the Dutch government to provide export credit services to Dutch companies on behalf of the Dutch State. This relationship continues to be successful.

1932

In Germany, Gerling Kreditversicherung (Gerling Credit) is established as the credit insurance arm of the Gerling Group.

1954

The paths of NCM and Gerling Credit meet and Gerling NCM is formed.

2001

Gerling NCM rebrands to Atradius.

2004

GCO (Grupo Catalana Occidente S.A.) becomes the major shareholder of Atradius. Crédito y Caución becomes a key part of the Atradius Group.

 

2008

Atradius merged its two European insurance carriers and strengthened its information services by acquiring IGNIOS Gestão Integrada de Risco S.A. in Portugal (now named Iberinform Portugal).

2016

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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