Credit & Political Risk Insurance.

Specialist protection for businesses, lenders and investors exposed to risks of non-payment, contract disruption, and geopolitical uncertainty across global markets.
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Benefits

How Specialist Risk Group supports this sector.

Specialist Risk Group’s (SRG) Credit & Political Risk insurance team helps businesses, lenders, and investors operate confidently in both emerging and developed economies and in complex global markets. We combine deep market access, technical expertise, and analytical insight to structure robust protection against corporate, sovereign, and political risk exposures.

Global experience

Extensive experience supporting clients through complex defaults, restructurings, and political events in 42 countries across six continents.
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Specialist expertise

Deep technical capability across corporate, sovereign and political risk, built through decades of specialist practice.
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Tailored insurance solutions

Programmes designed around financing structures, trade flows, investment strategies, and whole portfolio objectives.
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Insurer relationships

Strong relationships with specialist underwriters, multilateral lenders and guarantors, and credit risk insurers supporting complex placements.
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Strong claims track record

A strong claims success record across complex losses, supported by an experienced team in claims preparation and recovery.
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Industry challenges.

Businesses operating internationally face an increasingly complex and interconnected risk landscape. Commercial failures, geopolitical shocks, and regulatory intervention can quickly disrupt projects, delay payments, or prevent funds from being repatriated. Supply chains remain vulnerable to sanctions, conflict, and political decisions, while lenders and investors face heightened counterparty and sovereign risk.
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Key Risks.

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Buyer insolvency and default

Increasing commercial failures and credit deterioration impacting payment certainty on cross-border transactions.
Our clients

Who is it for?

We support organisations exposed to sovereign and commercial risk across global markets, including:

Banks and non-bank financial institutions
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Public sector agencies including multilateral development banks, development financial institutions and export credit agencies
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Commodity traders
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Cross border equity investors and asset managers
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Infrastructure, construction, and engineering firms
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Multinational corporations entering new or higher-risk jurisdictions
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Exporters and importers
Banks and non-bank financial institutions
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Public sector agencies including multilateral development banks, development financial institutions and export credit agencies
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Commodity traders
UK - Commodity Traders
Cross border equity investors and asset managers
UK - Cross Border Equity Investors and Asset Managers
Infrastructure, construction, and engineering firms
UK - Infrastructure, construction, and engineering firms
Multinational corporations entering new or higher-risk jurisdictions
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Exporters and importers

Related products & covers.

Our approach is tailored to each business we work with. Typical covers we look at for Credit and Political Risk clients include:
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Non-payment insurance

For private and public sector lenders (banks, non-bank financial institutions, multilaterals, and government financiers) with exposure to sovereign or private obligors.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Credit and Political Risk insurance is used by businesses, lenders, and investors to protect against non-payment, contract disruption, and losses caused by political events such as expropriation, currency controls or government action.
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