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Kidnap, extortion and ransom.  These are some of the risks grabbing the attention of Australian companies as they grow operations offshore. While companies constantly worry about immediate threats to their bottom lines or productivity, other serious, and often...

More than 10,000 terrorist attacks are carried out around the world every year, endangering the staff, assets and operations of international organisations. In today’s complex geo-political environment, incidents of political risk, political violence, war and...

We are pleased to announce that we can now offer Global Surety Bond capabilities into the following countries: Australia New Zealand Pacific Islands United Kingdom Dubai Israel Japan Malaysia Vietnam Singapore HK Vietnam Africa In addition, we can also issue bonds...

Legislation is changing requiring mining companies to provide a greater level of financial assurance by increasing reserves and capital, which is an onerous financial commitment and may adversely affect the economic feasibility of the project. To help mining companies...

We now have available to us, an “A” rated Underwriter who will consider providing security under a contract for one off Bonds with no requirement of, first, establishing a Surety Bond Facility. Apart from good financials and a proven track record, the main criteria is...

Previously in the Australian Surety Market, Underwriters would only consider companies with turnover in excess of $30m (realistically $50m) with net assets of $5m. We now have available to us, an “A” rated Underwriter who will consider companies with turnover of $20m....

Kidnappings in Venezuela have risen 170% in 2016 according to a new report based on citizen perceptions, highlighting the inability of the state to provide security as economic and political crises continue to engulf the nation. The study, published by the Institute...

A Sydney-based Islamic extremist has called on a Turkish audience to lead 'the armies of jihad that will conquer Europe and America' where their enemies have 'black hearts'. Palestinian-born Ismail al-Wahwah spoke at a 'caliphate conference' in Ankara, Turkey, in...

Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, is a greater threat to the United States in the long term than is ISIS, making the United States' current single-minded focus on the latter group misguided, a new report is charging. Al-Nusra is "much more dangerous to the...

It is a force the like of which the world has never seen before: a medieval death cult with a territory roughly the size of England. Its tentacles of power stretch out across Iraq and Syria, whose border it has erased. Syrian Raqqa is the de facto capital, Iraqi Mosul...