Why AXIS
Innovation
AXIS understands the many uncertainties that customers may face when dealing with international trade and finance. Over the years, we have developed a broad range of expertise to cover many different financial products
Focus on Service
Our success is driven by a service culture, working closely with brokers to evaluate risks and write policies to cover customer’s needs
Experienced team
We are one of the longest established credit and political risks teams in the London market
Appetite
Target classes
- Structured Trade Finance
- Trade Credit
- Corporate lending
- Credit portfolios
- Export Finance
- Letters of Credit
- Supply Chain Finance
- Acquisition Finance
- Real Estate Finance
- Derivatives
- Fund Finance
- Private Placement bonds, corporate bonds or bonds issued by state owned entities where the securities are intended to be held to maturity and the insured is not able to trade the insured security, without prior consent from the insurer
Limited appetite for
- SRT
- Project Finance
- Aircraft Finance
Coverage and Capacity
Coverage
- Non-payment – private obligors
- Non-payment – state owned obligors
- Embargo and license cancellation
- Exchange transfer and currencies inconvertibility
- Non-honoring of letters of credit
- Refusal to perform contractual obligations
- Refusal to honor arbitration awards or court judgments
- Unfair calling/fair call of on demand bonds
Capacity
- $50m Political Risks
- $40m Credit Risks
Capabilities
- Lead market for portfolio solutions
- Lead market for development finance institutions
- Lead market for commodity traders
SOLUTIONS
Tailored coverage for a variety of risk exposures
AXIS understands the many uncertainties that clients may face when contracting with international trading partners. We offer protection against non-payment by clients’ customers due to insolvency, default, and country risk.
We specialize in offering coverage for niche credit risks to a broad range of clients through carefully selected coverholders.
We offer a market for mortgage credit risk treaty business and reinsurance on a proportional and excess of loss basis. Target clients include both government-sponsored enterprises and private mortgage insurers.
The underwriters of AXIS Political Risk Insurance look beyond the headlines to help identify both obvious and lesser-known exposures in multiple countries around the world. We work closely with brokers to evaluate those risks and write policies to cover each client's needs.
AXIS understands the many uncertainties that clients may face when contracting with international trading partners. We offer protection against non-payment by clients’ customers due to insolvency, default, and country risk.
We specialize in offering coverage for niche credit risks to a broad range of clients through carefully selected coverholders.
We offer a market for mortgage credit risk treaty business and reinsurance on a proportional and excess of loss basis. Target clients include both government-sponsored enterprises and private mortgage insurers.
The underwriters of AXIS Political Risk Insurance look beyond the headlines to help identify both obvious and lesser-known exposures in multiple countries around the world. We work closely with brokers to evaluate those risks and write policies to cover each client's needs.
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Your AXIS team
Claims
We deliver on our promises
Effective resolution for customers is achieved with our highly skilled claims specialists focusing on:
- Quick decision making
- Championing your needs
- An honest approach
∗Claims examples may be based on actual cases, composites of actual cases or hypothetical claim scenarios and are provided for illustrative purposes only. Facts have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the parties. Whether or to what extent a particular loss is covered depends on the facts and circumstances of the loss, the terms and conditions of the policy as issued and applicable law.
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