Coface's mission is to facilitate global business-to-business trade by offering companies four product lines to help them manage, finance and protect their receivables (i.e., all credit granted for a period of 30 days, 60 days or sometimes more to other companies in the course of their commercial relations):

• Credit information and corporate ratings
• Receivable management
• Credit insurance
• Factoring

Coface also offers three other business lines:

• Guarantee insurance
• Receivables management training
• In France, public procedures management for export guarantees given by the French State.

Coface operates subsidiaries or branch offices in 58 countries, staffed by more than 4,600 employees serving 83,000 clients. It also offers local services in 93 countries through its partners in the CreditAlliance network, united by shared credit risk management systems (the Common Risk System).

Source: This is an excerpt from http://www.coface.com/