by Tate Parker | Jun 25, 2019 | Business Owners/CFOs
International business has become more risky in recent months as tariffs have impacted companies in many industries. Buying and selling between the US, China, India and other countries has gotten more expensive and in some cases is causing business owners and...
by Tate Parker | May 14, 2019 | Business Owners/CFOs, Credit insurance basics
Can credit insurance cover foreign accounts or only domestic? I recently wrote about how coverage decisions are made (How Credit Insurance Coverage Decisions Are Made), but what if your customer is outside the US? Can those sales be protected too? Why insure foreign...
by Tate Parker | May 2, 2019 | Business Owners/CFOs
I am not an economist and as the hotel commercial says, “I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express” either! With that disclaimer out of the way, more and more evidence of an economic slowdown is creeping into conversations these last few months....
by Tate Parker | Feb 26, 2019 | Business Owners/CFOs, Insurance Brokers
Utilities have always been one of the safest investments around. A few weeks ago, PG&E one of the largest electric and gas utilities in the US, filed for bankruptcy protection because of $30 billion in liability for wildfires in 2017 and 2018 in northern...
by Tate Parker | Feb 19, 2019 | Business Owners/CFOs, Insurance Brokers
An article in CFO Magazine caught my eye recently. It describes how companies are usually unprotected against “Black Swans”… risks that rarely happen but cause extreme pain when they do. Nothing is more true than with large credit exposures in...
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