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BPL Global is pleased to announce the release of its latest Market Insight 2019 report. The new annual market report shows that Spain and Germany ranked sixth and seventh in the top 10 countries for CPRI claims by value from 2016 to 2018. Over the three-year period, the broker...
Read moreBPL Global, the leading credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, today announced the appointment of Lucia Petry as Directeur of its French subsidiary, Berry Palmer & Lyle SA. Since joining BPL Paris in 2014, Petry has immersed herself in helping exporters and investors effectively use CPRI products to minimise risks abroad. In her role as Directeur, Petry will...
Read moreBPL Global, the leading credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, has created a team dedicated to excess of loss (XOL) trade credit insurance with a specific focus on the trade finance sector. XOL traditionally supports strong credit management within large multinational corporates. Recent product and technological developments, coupled with new underwriter entrants, now mean that...
Read moreOn Wednesday 4th July, we were delighted to host a reception at the Natural History Museum to celebrate 35 years of BPL Global. From our beginnings in 1983 with four staff, we have grown to become the largest specialist broking team in the credit and political risk insurance market. We could not have done this without our market-leading clients and underwriters. It was a pleasure to celebrate our...
Read moreBPL Global has established, via its French subsidiary BPL S.A., a branch office in Geneva. The new Geneva branch will focus on developing new relationships with Swiss-based banks, traders, NGOs and other potential clients, as well as being a local point of contact for the broker’s existing clients. Philippine de Villèle joins from UBS to head the office. Villèle previously spent two years...
Read moreBPL Global, the leading credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, today announced the appointment of Sam Evans as Director. He joined BPL Global in 2004, and has extensive experience of helping European-based corporates, banks and commodity traders effectively use the CPRI product, with a strong focus on and extensive experience of the African market.
Read moreBPL Global has been crowned “Best Trade Credit and Political Risk Insurance Broker (CPRI)” at this year’s Global Trade Review (GTR) “Leaders in Trade” awards. The award takes BPL Global’s haul in this category over the years to an impressive eight. James Esdaile, Managing Director, commented: “To be named once again as top of the pile in the CPRI industry speaks to the...
Read moreBPL Global has become the first broker to have placed a credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) policy on PPL, the London insurance market’s electronic placing platform. PPL is an electronic placing platform which enables brokers and insurers to quote, negotiate, bind and endorse business digitally. It was designed to allow participants in the London Market to place risks electronically...
Read moreBPL Global is delighted to announce the publication of its inaugural Market Insight report, marking 35 years as the leading credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker. Based on market statistics and BPL Global’s own portfolio, the report provides an analysis of the CPRI market's capabilities, current worldwide risk exposures and a claims update, focusing in particular on...
Read moreIn the most recent edition of GTR’s series about inspirational women in trade finance, Sanne Wass talks to Sian Aspinall, BPL Global’s Managing Director, about her career success and how the industry can best tackle any gender bias. Having worked within credit and political risk insurance for almost 30 years – starting as a political risk broker at Investment Insurance International,...
Read moreFollowing the announcement last week that BPL Global is to open a joint venture with EIA Global in New York, James Esdaile, Managing Director, assesses what the CPRI product can offer US financial institutions and exporters in an article in ExCred New York's supplement for its inaugural conference this week. Esdaile breaks down the claims figures in this comprehensive look at CPRI to discuss...
Read moreBPL Global is delighted to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with EIA Global to form a joint venture insurance broking company in New York. The joint venture will focus on global financial institutions which will benefit from its globally-integrated specialist credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broking services. As client demand for such services dictates, the...
Read moreIn a “60 second interview” with Trade & Forfaiting Review, Sian Aspinall, Managing Director, says that the CPRI market is growing in strength, with significant demand from banks using the product as a credit mitigation tool under the Basel framework. Meanwhile, Aspinall suggests that the private market has established itself as a credible and respected alternative,...
Read moreThe leading credit and political risk insurance broker has obtained a brokerage license to allow it to undertake insurance intermediation in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). London/Dubai. 4th September 2017. BPL Global, the leading specialist credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, has been granted a brokerage license by the Dubai Financial Services...
Read moreIn an opinion article for Trade & Forfaiting Review, James Esdaile, BPL Global’s joint Managing Director, explains that heightened political instability and banking capital regulations have driven exponential growth in the specialist Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) over the past few decades. However, to...
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