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Trade Risk Management

Learn how to manage trade risk and protect your business. 

Trade risk refers to the possibility of a customer defaulting on payment, which can have a negative impact on the supplier's cash flow and financial stability. ​

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Our risk management articles will provide you insights of how to manage trade risk to protect your business and best practices of credit risk management.

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What is bad debt and what to do about it?

Learn about bad debt, including its causes and available remedies, how to collect them, and how to prevent them in the future.
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Latest Trade Risk Articles

Aug 11, 2025

Surety Bonds: Essential for Sustainability-Focused Businesses

Discover how surety bonds can enhance sustainability-focused projects in energy-intensive industries. Learn about Allianz Trade's innovative Green2Green solution, which supports the low-carbon transition and offers financial flexibility for sustainable growth.
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Jul 30, 2025

Bad Debt Expense: A B2B Guide to Accounting, Management & Prevention

Learn how to account for and manage bad debt expense with our B2B guide. Explore the allowance vs. direct write-off methods and how trade credit insurance can protect your P&L.
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Jul 30, 2025

Past Due Invoices: A B2B Guide to Managing Risk & Protecting Cash Flow

Learn what a past due invoice means for your business. Our guide covers how to handle and prevent overdue payments, manage your DSO, and use trade credit insurance to protect cash flow.
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Jul 30, 2025

The Cash Ratio: A B2B Guide to Calculating and Managing Ultimate Liquidity

Learn how to calculate and interpret the cash ratio, the ultimate measure of your company's liquidity. Discover strategies to improve it and how TCI protects your cash position.
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Jul 16, 2025

Elevating trade credit insurance with data-driven insights

Discover how Allianz Trade enhances trade credit insurance through diverse data sets, AI technology, and expert human judgment, empowering businesses to make confident and informed decisions in a volatile global trade environment.
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Jun 30, 2025

Managing Trade Receivables: A B2B Guide to Risk, Metrics & Protection

Learn to manage trade receivables risk. Our guide covers key metrics like DSO and CEI to monitor A/R health and strategies like trade credit insurance to protect against bad debt.
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Jun 30, 2025

A B2B Guide to Credit Control: Policies, Procedures & Best Practices

Master B2B credit control with our guide. Learn to create effective policies, assess customer risk, manage collections, and use trade credit insurance to protect your cash flow.
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Jun 30, 2025

Working Capital Requirement (WCR): A B2B Guide to Calculation, Analysis, and Optimization

Learn how to calculate and analyze your Working Capital Requirement (WCR). This guide offers B2B strategies to optimize WCR by managing A/R and using tools like Trade Credit Insurance.
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Jun 30, 2025

Outstanding Balance: A B2B Guide to Managing A/R and A/P

Learn what an outstanding balance means for your B2B business. Our guide covers how to manage and monitor Accounts Receivable (A/R) and Payable (A/P) and how to protect your A/R from bad debt.
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Allianz Trade is the worldwide leader of credit insurer in trade credit insurance and offers expert solutions such as accounts receivable insurance, business debt collection, bad debt, trade credit, trade credit management, cash flow management, xol, debtor insurance, collect overdue payments, late payments and unpaid invoices. Our mission is to help customers globally to avoid trade risk, trade wisely and develop their business safely.

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