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Coface Risk Review – July 2025: UK Outlook from our Economist, Jonathan Steenberg
Headlines UK growth forecast at just 1% in both 2025 and 2026, falling behind the EU and other advanced economies by 2026 Inflation expected to peak at 3.5% in Q3 2025, and remain above the 2% target through 2026 Private sector momentum weakening, with Autumn budget and tariffs adding pressure Corporate insolvencies rising again, now forecast to increase by 3% in 2025 Three sector downgrades: automotive, chemicals, and metals now rated Very High Risk
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Risk in a new age of tariffs - Three resources to help you assess trade partners
Trump’s 2024 election victory has reignited global trade tensions, with a new wave of aggressive tariffs triggering widespread disruption and uncertainty. In this article, Andre van Niekerk, Head of Consulting and Insights, and Jonathan Steenberg, Economist at Coface UK, examine the impact of these measures, the risks they pose to international businesses, and how companies can adapt to the evolving trade landscape.
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Rice: lifting of Indian restrictions causes global prices to plummet to their lowest level since 2017
Rice prices have fallen 35% in one year to their lowest level since 2017 (around US$360 per ton) following the lifting of Indian export restrictions. After three years of extreme volatility, the market is facing a glut (541 million tons produced in 2024), pushing prices down and upsetting the balance for global producers and importers.
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Coface Risk Review October 2025: The calm during the storm
The global economy weathered the trade turmoil of the first half of 2025, but the coming quarters will see a spreading of the longer-term effects. The October 2025 Coface Risk Review analyses global dynamics, placing its focus on the surge in social and political risk, and the strategic challenges facing the Gulf countries.
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France Payment Survey 2025: 86% of companies face late payments that threaten their cash flow
According to the latest Coface survey, nearly 9 out of 10 French companies are experiencing late payments, and a majority of them even report that the problem is getting worse, against a backdrop of international economic and trade tensions. This is putting a strain on their cash flow.
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Trade credit insurance: 6 strategies to secure your growth
Slowing global growth, shifts in international trade, digitisation and automation of trade receivables, (geo)political instability: trade credit management is becoming increasingly complex, with the risk of affecting your company's cash flow and disrupting the development of your business. Here's how to make trade credit insurance your best weapon for avoiding bad debts and conquering new markets in this new commercial ecosystem.
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5 tips to anticipate risks and successfully run your business with Data & AI
AI and data are powerful tools for improving business management, but their adoption remains a huge challenge for executives. Security, ROI, technological integration and digitalisation: our Risk & Smart Data experts help you transform your data into genuine growth drivers and decision-making solutions. Find out all the keys to managing your risks and stay ahead.
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Information reports: a business management tool and performance lever to grow your company
Essential for anticipating business risks, information reports are also practical tools that support effective business management. Prospecting, sales, marketing, financial audit, securing the supply chain or accelerating your customer knowledge processes (KYC): these decision-making solutions guide you through every stage of your business.
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When agriculture faces the complexity of global trade: dive into the experience of one of the leading American agri-food cooperatives that is reinventing its trade risk management by combining Coface's comprehensive solutions in trade credit insurance and information services. As a result, commercial decisions are made in less than 15 minutes! Analysis of a winning strategy.
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Information reports: a business management tool and performance lever to grow your company
Essential for anticipating business risks, information reports are also practical tools that support effective business management. Prospecting, sales, marketing, financial audit, securing the supply chain or accelerating your customer knowledge processes (KYC): these decision-making solutions guide you through every stage of your business.
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Data & Tech Ep8: Meet Yoann, Senior IT Security Engineer
In this new episode of our Data & Tech @Coface series, Yoann Mourin opens the doors to his daily universe: cybersecurity. From real-time incident management to AI-powered anticipation strategies and operational and financial risk assessment, find out what goes on behind the scenes of Coface's digital defence and explore the cyber challenges shaping the future of finance.
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