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The web site itself may have changed. You can check the current page or check for previous versions at the Internet Archive. Yahoo! is not affiliated with the authors of this page or responsible for its content. How Letters of Credit Are Supposed to Work How Letters of Credit Are
Supposed to Work (and Why They Sometimes Dont) NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker, Atradius Trade Credit Insurance buddy.baker@atradius.com (312) 523-2130 NOTE: This set of slides contains animation and builds
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and check Print hidden slides. Walter (Buddy) Baker Walter (Buddy) Baker has over 25 years of experience in international trade finance. In September 2005 he
joined Atradius Trade Credit Insurance, where he is responsible for assisting exporters and banks with
structuring financing for export receivables. Prior to Atradius, Buddys career was on the banking side, most
recently including 10 years with ABN AMRO Bank as Global Head of Technical Trade Advisory/Compliance. Buddy is a recognized expert in trade finance, a long-time member of the National Letter of Credit Committee,
and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Finance Credit and International Business Association and
as an adviser to the Institute for International Banking Law and Practice and to the Wolfsberg Group. He
earned his undergraduate degree at Yale and his MBA at Northwestern. Buddy can be reached at (312) 523-2130 or buddy.baker@atradius.com. Atradius Trade Credit Insurance Headquartered in the Netherlands, Atradius is the second largest credit insurer in the world, with offices in 40
countries and covering over $450 billion in world trade each year. The company insures businesses and their
bankers against the commercial and country risks of non-payment of accounts receivable and trade-related
loans and offers a number of products varying from credit insurance to collections. Atradius has credit
information on more than 45 million companies world-wide and makes 10,000 credit limit decisions every day. More information can be found at www.atradius.com . 6/13/07 NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker - Page 4 About Atradius 6/13/07 NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker - Page 5 25% global market share Second largest credit insurer in the world Rated A by Standard & Poors and A2 by Moodys Trade transactions worth over $450 billion covered annually Access to credit information on 45 million companies worldwide 12,000 credit limit decisions daily Annual income of $1.6 billion (2006) Equity $600 million (2005) 90 offices in more than 40 countries Staff of approximately 3,400 professionals worldwide Headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Atradius Group Facts & Figures 6/13/07 NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker - Page 6 GERLING Credit since 1954 NCM since 1925 1990 Business activity mainly
in The Netherlands 2001 BG Guarantee & Factoring, DK 1991 ISG, UK 1991 ECGD Credit
Insurance, UK 1993 Business activity
only in Germany
and Switzerland 2000 Comesec, Mexico 2000 Groupe Etoile, France 1994 Namur, Belgium 1996 SACREN, France 1996 Uni Storebrand
Kredittforsikring, Norway 1996 EKR Eksportkredit,
Denmark 1998 Smit Ommen,
The Netherlands 1999 MNCIC, USA 1999 Eurocollect, The Netherlands 2000 Societ
The web site itself may have changed. You can check the current page or check for previous versions at the Internet Archive. Yahoo! is not affiliated with the authors of this page or responsible for its content. How Letters of Credit Are Supposed to Work How Letters of Credit Are
Supposed to Work (and Why They Sometimes Dont) NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker, Atradius Trade Credit Insurance buddy.baker@atradius.com (312) 523-2130 NOTE: This set of slides contains animation and builds
designed to be viewed in Slide Show mode.
Please switch to Slide Show mode. Printing the slides may produce partially
obstructed slides and slides with missing
elements. If your desire is to review the
presentation on paper, when in the print dialog,
choose Print range: Custom Show: Handouts
and check Print hidden slides. Walter (Buddy) Baker Walter (Buddy) Baker has over 25 years of experience in international trade finance. In September 2005 he
joined Atradius Trade Credit Insurance, where he is responsible for assisting exporters and banks with
structuring financing for export receivables. Prior to Atradius, Buddys career was on the banking side, most
recently including 10 years with ABN AMRO Bank as Global Head of Technical Trade Advisory/Compliance. Buddy is a recognized expert in trade finance, a long-time member of the National Letter of Credit Committee,
and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Finance Credit and International Business Association and
as an adviser to the Institute for International Banking Law and Practice and to the Wolfsberg Group. He
earned his undergraduate degree at Yale and his MBA at Northwestern. Buddy can be reached at (312) 523-2130 or buddy.baker@atradius.com. Atradius Trade Credit Insurance Headquartered in the Netherlands, Atradius is the second largest credit insurer in the world, with offices in 40
countries and covering over $450 billion in world trade each year. The company insures businesses and their
bankers against the commercial and country risks of non-payment of accounts receivable and trade-related
loans and offers a number of products varying from credit insurance to collections. Atradius has credit
information on more than 45 million companies world-wide and makes 10,000 credit limit decisions every day. More information can be found at www.atradius.com . 6/13/07 NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker - Page 4 About Atradius 6/13/07 NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker - Page 5 25% global market share Second largest credit insurer in the world Rated A by Standard & Poors and A2 by Moodys Trade transactions worth over $450 billion covered annually Access to credit information on 45 million companies worldwide 12,000 credit limit decisions daily Annual income of $1.6 billion (2006) Equity $600 million (2005) 90 offices in more than 40 countries Staff of approximately 3,400 professionals worldwide Headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Atradius Group Facts & Figures 6/13/07 NACMs 111th Credit Congress & Exposition Buddy Baker - Page 6 GERLING Credit since 1954 NCM since 1925 1990 Business activity mainly
in The Netherlands 2001 BG Guarantee & Factoring, DK 1991 ISG, UK 1991 ECGD Credit
Insurance, UK 1993 Business activity
only in Germany
and Switzerland 2000 Comesec, Mexico 2000 Groupe Etoile, France 1994 Namur, Belgium 1996 SACREN, France 1996 Uni Storebrand
Kredittforsikring, Norway 1996 EKR Eksportkredit,
Denmark 1998 Smit Ommen,
The Netherlands 1999 MNCIC, USA 1999 Eurocollect, The Netherlands 2000 Societ
