Our History

Success in a continually changing business environment means the identification of market shifts at an early point in time and the implementation of appropriate measures in order to remain a decisive step ahead of future developments. This way of thinking made Coface Central Europe to the leading provider of business information in Central and Eastern Europe.

• Establishement of Coface, a French company specialising in export credit insurance

• Foundation Coface in Austria (Credit Insurance)

• Dation Coface Central Europe (Information & Debt Collection)

• Expansion in Hungary (Information & Debt Collection)

• Expansion in the Czech Republic and Slovenia (Information & Debt Collection)

• Creation of "Coface Partner" (former CreditAlliance), a worldwide network of insurance companies, business information agencies, multiline insurance companies and factoring companies
• Expansion in Poland and Russia (Information & Debt Collection)

• Expansion in Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia (Estonia) and Ukraine (Information & Debt Collection)

• Coface privatised
• Expansion in Bulgaria (Albania and Macedonia) - Information & Debt Collection

• Expansion in Romania (Moldova) - Information & Debt Collection

• Coface in Austria becomes part of Coface, one of the three Global Players

• Expansion in Croatia (Bosnia) - Information & Debt Collection

• Designation of Vienna as headquarter for Central and Eastern Europe

• Expansion in Poland - Credit Insurance

• Expansion in Hungary - Credit Insurance

• Expansion in Lithuania - Credit Insurance

• Coface becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Natixis, the financing, asset management and financial services arm of the BPCE Group, France’s second largest banking group
• Enlargement Product Range with Factoring Poland

• Expansion in Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia (Credit Insurance) and Serbia (Montenegro) - Information & Debt Collection

• Expansion in Latvia (Estonia) and Bulgaria (Credit Insurance)

• Cross-Border Merger of Coface Austria Kreditversicherung AG und Coface Austria Holding AG with Coface SA, France - new company name Coface SA Niederlassung Austria

• New logo, identity and websites for Coface

2014

• Success of the Coface IPO on the regulated market of Euronext Paris. As of July 2nd 2014, the resulting shareholding is as follows: Public: 58.50%; Natixis: 41.24%; Employees: 0.26%.
• Direct presence in 67 countries
• Guarantees delivered in nearly 200 countries

• Launch of EasyLiner, CofaServe, CofaNet Policy Master, Express Credit Limit and Dashboards
• Re-Launch of InfoIcon

2017

• Ukraine serviced by Coface Central European Holding AG

2019

• Launch of Business Finder
• Acquisition of PKZ, the leading credit insurance company in Slovenia