Credit and Political Risk Insurance
Based in Chicago and New York City, Alliant Emerging Markets is a leading provider of credit and political risk analysis and insurance solutions. Part of Alliant Insurance Services, a Blackstone Group company, Alliant Emerging Markets consists of a team of brokers, risk analysts, lawyers, and former government officials that uses systematic risk assessment. By combining financial analysis, company risk ratings, and loss modeling, our experts deliver credit and political risk analysis and insurance for transactions in the U.S., G20 economies, and emerging markets.
Political Risk Insurance
Alliant Emerging Markets is one of the leading political risk insurance brokers in North America with an extensive track record placing some of the largest political risk insurance programs in energy, oil and gas exploration and production, utilities, telecoms, and manufacturing. Alliant has extensive experience working with underwriters to develop policy language meeting the changing nature of political risk, including:
- Expropriation and creeping expropriation
- Legal, regulatory, and licensing risk
- Government breach of contract and arbitration award default
- Political violence and terrorism
- Supply chain disruption
Credit Insurance
Our team has extensive experience quantifying, forecasting, and mitigating credit risk on domestic and cross-border transactions, including accounts receivables, structured and trade finance, commodity finance, off-taker agreements, and infrastructure projects. Insurance programs have been developed for each of the following:
- Single/multi-buyer payment risk
- Comprehensive counterparty credit default
- Pre- and post-export finance
- Non-delivery of commodity and carbon credits
- Performance risk
Rating and Analytics
As the largest provider of global macro risk ratings and analytics on Bloomberg, Alliant Emerging Market’s 1,200 risk ratings and indices cover eight types of political and economic risks in 176 countries. Our data and forecasts are based on quantitative risk models developed by our team and leverage Alliant’s unique access as a market leader to insurance and industry loss data and its network of government sources across the G20 and emerging markets. The ratings of Alliant Emerging Markets can be accessed on Bloomberg at ABEM <GO> or via subscription and include:
- Trade credit risk
- Currency inconvertibility and transfer
- Legal and regulatory risk
- Sovereign default and government breach of contract
- Expropriation and creeping expropriation
- Strikes, riots, and civil commotion
- War and civil war
- Terrorism