With an experienced and highly capable team, Antares is a leading provider of credit and political risk insurance to banks, export credit agencies, multilateral institutions and corporates.

The business benefits from the consistently strong security ratings assigned to Lloyd’s: “AA-” from Standard & Poor’s, “AA-” from Fitch and “A+” from A.M. Best.

The Political and Financial Risks team have the ability to provide solutions addressing the full range of credit and political risk perils, including:

The team particularly focuses on the provision of credit insurance, covering non-payment by sovereign entities (termed contract frustration) – as well as private and quoted companies (termed credit) – under trade and non-trade financings. We have a broad remit and expertise spanning a wide range of asset classes, including general corporate, commodity, asset (shipping, aviation and real estate), project, trade and sovereign financing. We have the ability to provide coverage for up to 12 years on credit insurance policies, and up to 15 years for contract frustration policies.

The Political and Financial Risk team have a wide geographical footprint with the capability to underwrite risks on the Lloyd’s London, Lloyd’s Brussels and Lloyd’s Singapore platforms, aligning the team to key client locations. 

We adopt a client-centric and partnership approach, through establishing long-term working relationships with our insureds (via a small number of specialised brokers). This, together with our insight on latest market/economic dynamics and technical understanding, enables the team to provide timely and high-quality service to our clients.