Economic & Trade Risk Insights
 

Global supply chains have faced mounting pressure in 2025. As businesses plan and consider new strategies, Allianz Trade’s expert risk reporting offers valuable insights to help you build more resilient supply chains and protect your growth.   A car manufacturer suddenly faces supply chain disruption because its key supplier goes bankrupt amid rising geopolitical tensions. Meanwhile, a global pharmaceuticals business faces increasing buyer fraud risks after expanding into an emerging market, threatening its growth.   In 2025, the growing complexity of global supply chains makes stories like these all too common. Today, companies face an unpredictable geopolitical landscape, with trade disputes, economic volatility, and challenges around fraud, cybersecurity, and environmental change all putting pressure on global supply chains.

Global supply chains have faced mounting pressure in 2025. As businesses plan and consider new strategies, Allianz Trade’s expert risk reporting offers valuable insights to help you build more resilient supply chains and protect your growth.   As summer draws to a close and a new “school year” begins, September marks a moment of planning ahead – not only for students, but for businesses too. At the start of 2025, companies braced themselves for geopolitical tensions, trade disputes, and evolving threats in areas like cybersecurity and the environment. As the year’s progressed, these concerns have not only materialized – they’ve grown and compounded, creating new levels of economic volatility and uncertainty, and heaping pressure on global supply chains.   To effectively manage evolving supply chain risks, businesses need a proactive approach. Allianz Trade’s Country Risk, Sector Risk, and Collection Complexity reports provide companies with clear and regularly updated insights, helping you identify vulnerabilities in your supply chain and spot opportunities to strengthen it, and act confidently in the face of significant global uncertainty.

Companies typically view insurance as a safety net, a cost to mitigate risk. But what if it could also be a catalyst for growth? This data deep dive explores how Trade Credit Insurance (TCI) transforms from a protective tool into a powerful growth engine, using insights and real-world data from the Allianz Trade guide.

Trade Credit Insurance can seem complex, but understanding its core functions is key to leveraging its benefits. This FAQ-style guide provides clear and concise answers to your most pressing questions, based on insights from the Allianz Trade Guide to Credit Insurance.

Extending credit to customers is a necessary part of doing business, but it comes with the inherent risk that some invoices will never be paid. When an account receivable becomes uncollectible, it becomes a bad debt, and it must be accounted for on your income statement as a bad debt expense. This expense directly reduces your profitability and impacts your cash flow. Effectively managing and protecting your business against bad debt expense is therefore crucial for your financial health. This guide covers how to account for, manage, and ultimately, insure against this critical business cost.

The rise of B2B e-commerce presents opportunities for growth alongside challenges, such as cyber fraud. To protect e-commerce platforms and secure growth, businesses must implement strong anti-fraud measures.   B2B e-commerce is fast becoming the biggest growth driver of the digital economy. In early 2025, global B2B e-commerce sales reached US$7.7 trillion – more than double the total for B2C e-commerce, according to the B2B eCommerce Association.   To capitalize on this growth, cyber criminals are increasingly targeting B2B e-commerce platforms with more diverse and sophisticated fraud attacks. From invoice fraud to buyer fraud, fraudsters are continuously evolving strategies and honing new methods.   Businesses can counteract the efforts of cyber criminals and respond effectively with innovative anti-fraud solutions like Allianz Trade pay. With a range of built-in functionalities designed specifically for B2B e-commerce businesses, Allianz Trade pay helps you mitigate fraud risks without compromising your operational efficiency nor your growth.