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Empowering businesses since 1925

We work alongside you to understand and support your business.

What we do
Managing risk, enabling trade

Credit insurance from Atradius Ireland is a straightforward, cost effective and flexible way to ensure you get paid for goods and services you supply.

What is trade credit insurance?
Achievements
Key facts and figures
95%
customer retention rate
3,500
colleagues worldwide
50+
countries where we are located
2.5
billion total revenue
Our business
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

With a rich history spanning nearly a century, Atradius has grown from humble beginnings in the Netherlands to one of the world-leading credit insurance providers today.

Nederlandsche Credietverzekering Maatschappij (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

Today we are one of the world’s foremost credit insurance companies, a trusted provider of trade credit insurance, surety and collections services in more than 50 countries worldwide.

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Sustainability
Advancing trade with sustainability in mind

As one of the world's largest credit insurers, we want to use our global influence to support people and prosperity, and to contribute to more sustainable business practices across the planet.

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Management team
Leading us to success

Our Management Board is responsible for our results at Atradius and for driving our strategy, policy and aims. It has a legal duty to be guided our interests and those of our connected businesses.

Supervisory board
Representing our stakeholders

The Supervisory Board is responsible for monitoring and guiding the general affairs of our business and the policy of our Management Board. Its work is supported by the Audit Committee and the Remuneration, Selection and Appointment Committee.

Xavier Freixes
Chair
Hugo Serra Calderón
Désirée van Gorp
John Hourican
Carlos Halpern Serra
José María Sunyer
Juan Ignacio Guerrero
Joaquín Guallar

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