The Region

The Pacific Islands present unique problems to the world of commercial credit reporting. Since the days of the early European explorers, information from these parts has been vital to the region’s development.

Any number of risk assessment models offer information on regional trends. Reports by economists, political observers, aid organizations and your armchair banker in Brussels will present you with graphs, statistics and other actuarial information designed to illuminate the pathway of the Pacific Island trader. These macro-management systems may work in the perfect world, but in the Pacific Island region more is needed...

• Tsunamis
• Earthquakes
• Typhoons – Hurricanes – Cyclones
• Drought
• Political instability – Coups
• Terrorism
• Corruption
• Vulnerability to world commodity prices
• Exchange rates
• Inadequate and under-funded corporate regulation
• Medical (SARS – Avian flu)

...are factors that shape the fragile economies and play havoc with credit risk models and macro-management systems.

Specific knowledge of the region, backed by many years experience and a network of on-the-ground contacts is the solution to Pacific commercial reporting.

Pacific Commercial Reports provides that platform to fine-tune your credit risk perspective.