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

2020

• The Build to Lead strategic plan is launched, designed to consolidate the Group's leading role in credit insurance and develop adjacent businesses (information services, debt collection, bonds, factoring and single risk insurance).

• Launch of URBA360