Credit Risk Insurers & Bank News

19 January 2026

Updates every Monday.

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  Allianz

  ➦ Geopolitics heats up from Venezuela, to Greenland to Iran, but investors shrug. For how long?
  In the worst-case scenario (10% probability), the US pursuing a full-fledged annexation of Greenland by military force would end NATO overnight, unraveling decades of European security architecture and marking the end of the US-led system of collective defense in Europe.

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  Atradius

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  Coface

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  Credendo

  ➦ Latin America: Regional political violence risks under pressure after US capture of Maduro
  Rodríguez faces an inherently contradictory task to satisfy both the Trump administration – seeking oil, anti-narcotics cooperation and renewed access for US energy firms – while simultaneously navigating a political regime relying on corruption, oil and drug trafficking profits sustained by over two decades of anti-US Chavista ideology.

  ➦ Chile: Kast’s election marks the country’s most right-wing leadership in 35 years though moderate policies expected
  When Kast assumes office in March, he will become Chile’s most right-wing leader in 35 years of democracy.

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  EXIM

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  Goldman Sachs

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  Marsh

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  Wells Fargo

  ➦ USA: A moderating but resilient U.S. economy
  International: Gentle Data Shifts, Anchored Policy Paths

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  World Economic Forum

  ➦ Global Risks Report 2026
  In this period of geoeconomic transformation, alliances are being reshaped and the resilience of markets and of the institutions that emerged from the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 is being tested.

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  Risk Maps