SID Re considers selected political and cross-border risks requiring specialist underwriting, legal analysis and carefully structured capacity.
Potential Coverage Areas
- Political violence
- War and civil disturbance, where specifically agreed
- Expropriation
- Confiscation
- Nationalisation
- Currency inconvertibility
- Currency-transfer restriction
- Contract frustration
- Non-honouring of sovereign obligations
- Non-payment by public-sector entities
- Licence cancellation
- Import or export restrictions
- Trade disruption
- Embargo
- Forced abandonment
- Deprivation of assets
- Sovereign and sub-sovereign exposures
- Cross-border investment risks
Trade Credit and Non-Payment
Where specialist capacity is available, SID Re may consider:
- Commercial non-payment
- Political non-payment
- Trade receivables
- Export credit
- Structured trade transactions
- Bank and financial-institution exposures
- Buyer credit
- Supplier credit
- Project-related payment obligations
Every political-risk opportunity is subject to country assessment, sanctions review, legal enforceability, transaction structure, counterparty quality, tenor and available specialist capacity.