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Alternative Credit Insurance

A tailored credit risk insurance solution designed to protect against the risk of non-payment, enhancing risk-adjusted returns and optimizing capital management.

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Our alternative credit insurance team at Willis, a WTW business, provides structured credit insurance solutions tailored to meet the needs of:

  • Non-bank financial institutions
  • Funds (with a focus on private credit)
    • General partners, and
    • Limited partners (including NAIC & Solvency II Regulated Investors)
  • Banks (in collaboration with our Financial Institutions coverage team)

Key benefits of our tailored credit insurance solutions

Credit risk insurance protects against the non-payment of a financial obligation by an obligor pursuant to the terms of a loan, note, bond or derivative.

Benefits to the purchaser/insured include one or more of the following:

  • Mitigation of credit risk on a confidential basis (not disclosed to obligor)
  • Enhancement of risk adjusted returns
  • Optimization of economic and/or regulatory capital
  • Management of limits (obligor, sector, geography)
  • Expansion of risk distribution end markets
  • Discrete partnership

Solutions can insure a single exposure, as well as pools and portfolios on a vertical or horizontal tranched basis. Insurers are typically rated from A- to AA and are diversified property and casualty insurers and reinsurers.

Insurable risks

Our alternative credit risk insurance solutions cover a broad spectrum of industries, asset classes and markets including:

  • Senior direct lending
  • Large corporates
  • SME
  • Project finance (infrastructure, energy, utilities, renewables, telecommunications, data centers)
  • Asset-based loans (aircraft, ships)
  • Emerging market - sovereign guaranteed
  • Select commercial real estate (CRE) - single asset & portfolio
  • Broadly syndicated loans (BSL) and middle-market (MM) collateralized loan obligation (CLO) tranches
  • Significant risk transfer (SRT) tranches
  • Trade receivables securitizations
  • Feeder funds
  • Separately managed accounts
  • Subscription/capital call facilities
  • Hybrid facilities
  • NAV facilities
  • Emerging market – sovereign
  • Corporate bonds
  • Derivative counterparty credit risk
  • Insurance of indemnity reserves
  • Counterparty credit risk
  • Counterparty credit risk
  • Voluntary carbon market projects
  • Compliance market credit risk
  • Select CRE - single asset & portfolio

Why Willis

We offer a full suite of services to support your alternative credit insurance needs, including:

  • Structuring: Customized insurance structures to fit your specific requirements
  • Distribution: Efficient distribution of insurance products to the right markets
  • Servicing: Ongoing support and management of your insurance policies
  • Market intelligence: In-depth market analysis and insights to inform your decisions
  • Insurer onboarding: Streamlined onboarding of insurers
  • Ongoing administration: Continuous administration and monitoring of insurance policies
  • Claims handling: Specialist assistance in the claims process to ensure timely and effective resolution

Willis Credit Risk Solutions is made up of 275+ specialists in 35 countries, with extensive experience in credit risk underwriting, legal, portfolio management, capital markets, commercial and investment banking, and trading.

For more information on how we can help you manage and mitigate credit risk, please contact our team.

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