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Atradius is one of the world's largest credit insurers,〔http://siteresources.worldbank.org/FINANCIALSECTOR/Resources/Primer15_TradeCreditInsurance_Final.pdf〕 with more than 160 offices in 50 countries, 3300 staff and revenues of more than €1.6 billion in 2014.〔Annual Report 2014 Atradius N.V. http://global.atradius.com/images/stories/Annual_Reports/2014/20150311_Atradius_Annual%20Report_2014.pdf〕 The company is rated 'A (excellent) out look stable' by A.M. Best〔Best's News Service via Bestwire - October 03, 2014 10:04 AM, http://www3.ambest.com/ambv/bestnews/newscontent.aspx?altsrc=108&refnum=177393〕 and 'A3 outlook stable' by Moody's〔Moody’s Investors Service, Credit Opinion: Atradius NV, Global Credit Research - 21 August 2014〕 ==History== Trade credit insurance was introduced after World War I by various governments and private insurers as a means of economic stimulus. The roots of Atradius can be found in the 2001 acquisition by German insurer Gerling-Konzern Speziale Kreditversicherung (Gerling Credit) of Dutch insurer Nederlandsche Credietverzekering Maatschappij (NCM). The company was then branded as GERLING NCM. Before then, both Gerling Credit and NCM had established a strong and long standing reputation in the credit insurance industry. Gerling Credit was established in 1954 as the credit insurance arm of the Gerling-Konzern insurance group of Cologne. In 1962 it opened its first international branch office in Switzerland and was the first private credit insurer to offer export credit protection. NCM had been founded in 1925 with the goal of improving trade for companies in the Netherlands. From 1932 onwards it also became the arm of the Dutch government through which it provided export credit services to Dutch companies. Atradius still performs this function through its affiliate Atradius Dutch State Business. Both Gerling Credit and NCM had made their own acquisitions before their combination, including the acquisition by NCM of the short-term arm of the UK government’s Export Credit Guarantee Department (ECGD) in 1991 and private insurers such as Namur Assurances du Crédit S.A., Belgium by Gerling Credit in 1994, both of which have their own histories dating back to the birth of trade credit insurance around 1919. The now international group was renamed Atradius in 2004: the name echoing the group’s commitment to support worldwide trade. In 2008 the group was further enhanced by the addition of Spanish credit insurer Crédito y Caución, founded in 1928, and subsequently gained an additional foothold in the Spanish speaking world. The Atradius Group today is the amalgamation of a number of international trade credit insurers〔Trade credit insurance〕 and affiliated organisations from Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, UK and USA. Although now Spanish owned, the headquarters remains in Amsterdam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atradius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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