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Credit & Political Risk Insurance

Our credit and political risk team offer years of experience providing customers with protection from exposure to political risks and counterparty risks.

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  • Commodity traders
  • Exporters/manufacturers
  • Global banks
  • Multilateral organizations

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Tailored coverage for a variety of risk exposures

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AXIS understands the many uncertainties that clients may face when contracting with international trading partners. We offer protection against non-payment by clients’ customers due to insolvency, default, and country risk.

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AXIS Coverholders Insurance

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We specialize in offering coverage for niche credit risks to a broad range of clients through carefully selected coverholders.

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AXIS Mortgage Insurance

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We offer a market for mortgage credit risk treaty business and reinsurance on a proportional and excess of loss basis. Target clients include both government-sponsored enterprises and private mortgage insurers.

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AXIS Political Risks Insurance

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The underwriters of AXIS Political Risk Insurance look beyond the headlines to help identify both obvious and lesser-known exposures in multiple countries around the world. We work closely with brokers to evaluate those risks and write policies to cover each client's needs.

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AXIS Mortgage Insurance

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AXIS understands the many uncertainties that clients may face when contracting with international trading partners. We offer protection against non-payment by clients’ customers due to insolvency, default, and country risk.

We specialize in offering coverage for niche credit risks to a broad range of clients through carefully selected coverholders.

We offer a market for mortgage credit risk treaty business and reinsurance on a proportional and excess of loss basis. Target clients include both government-sponsored enterprises and private mortgage insurers.

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AXIS Political Risks Insurance

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The underwriters of AXIS Political Risk Insurance look beyond the headlines to help identify both obvious and lesser-known exposures in multiple countries around the world. We work closely with brokers to evaluate those risks and write policies to cover each client's needs.

Capabilities

Manufacturers of products, including but not limited to:

Credit protection offered includes:

  • Contract repudiation
  • Embargo and license cancellation
  • Exchange transfer and currencies inconvertibility
  • Non-delivery
  • Lenders mortgage insurance/reinsurance
  • Non-honoring of letters of credit
  • Non-payment – private obligors
  • Refusal to perform contractual obligations
  • Refusal to honor arbitration awards or court judgments
  • Unfair calling/fair call of on demand bonds

Political risks come in many forms:

  • Aircraft repossession (under confiscation)
  • Confiscation
  • Expropriation
  • Forced abandonment
  • Forced divestiture
  • Nationalization and deprivation
  • Non-payment – sovereign/sub-sovereign
  • Selective discrimination
  • $30 Million maximum line size for credit risks
  • 12 Years maximum policy period for credit risks
  • $50 Million maximum line size for political risks
  • 15 Years maximum policy period for political risks

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  • Commodity trader
  • Coverholders
  • Export credit agencies
  • Exporters
  • Financial institutions
  • Government sponsored enterprises
  • Multilateral organizations/development finance institutions
  • Private mortgage insurers

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Richard Lamb

Richard Lamb

Head of Credit & Political Risks

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Karen Barker

Karen Barker

Senior Underwriter

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Iwan Jenkins

Iwan Jenkins

Senior Underwriter

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Beth MacGregor

Beth MacGregor

Senior Underwriter

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