Commercial and Financial Contracts
Public Sector Obligor
Contract Frustration
Government action resulting in the failure or refusal of a contracting party, including a financial or performance guarantor, to honour their obligations under a contract.
Typical transactions
- Pre-export finance
- Import finance
- Tolling, barter/ counter trade
- Sales and purchase contracts
- Service contracts
- Letters of credit, on-demand bonds
Perils insured by contract frustration insurance
- Private obligor non-performance due to government action
- Government obligor non-performance
- Arbitration default
- Import and export restrictions
- War
- Transfer delays/ currency inconvertibility
- Fair and unfair calling of bonds
Private Sector Obligor
Trade Credit Risks
Non-payment by a private obligor
Typical transactions
- Export and import contracts
- Trade and commodity finance
- Bank-to-bank lending
- Pre-export finance
- Buyer credit
- Supplier credit
- Financing secured by trade receivables
- Securitisation of receivables
- Asset-backed financing
- Acquisitions financing
- Letters of credit
Perils insured by trade credit insurance
- Private obligor non-performance
- Arbitration default
- Import and export restrictions
- War
- Transfer delays/ currency inconvertibility
- Fair and unfair calling of bonds