Anwendungsbeispiele

The following offers and services are intended to give you a first impression of our capabilities. They are derived from past enquiries/orders from our customers from various target groups.

• Export companies / suppliers often know neither the buyer nor its market or country in detail / sufficiently / promptly and take on corresponding default risks. We offer appropriate up-to-date data research, individual (creditworthiness) analysis and confidential advice on their current situation and development (risk profile/risk potential), taking into account group structures and risk alliances if necessary. The same applies to importers with regard to their suppliers as well as to (advisory) institutions to which they turn for help. The ongoing/periodic monitoring of customers/business partners is also part of this area.

• Banks and other lenders such as leasing and factoring companies grant loans, including abroad, or grant corresponding credit lines. - also abroad - or grant corresponding credit lines and require up-to-date (creditworthiness) information regarding the borrower, market and country risk (default risk). We provide competent, confidential, neutral and prompt data and analyses including evaluation in the form of compact, comprehensible and decision-relevant risk/research reports

• The proprietary investments of banks, insurance companies and other investors are subject to a constant issuer and default risk. We check their creditworthiness (development) and highlight the risks so that countermeasures can be taken in good time if necessary.
  
  
• Investment banks, insurance companies and investors are involved in markets that are (too) little known. We obtain the necessary information, analyse it and highlight the risks.
  
  
• Insurance companies or other companies want to establish themselves abroad. We research the relevant information, analyse markets/competitors and countries and advise our clients.
  
  
• Companies / investors are planning expansion or rationalisation investments or other investment projects. In consultation with the client, we design the investment/financing calculations and profitability analysis as well as a solvency diagnosis and carry them out competently with the relevant information - including checking, analysing and evaluating the results and risk aspects.
  
  
• We support companies/investors seeking loans by professionally preparing them for discussions with potential lenders (including answering questions from banks) and preparing and organising the required (loan) documents (e.g. presentation of key figures) in a purpose-oriented manner.
  
  
• Banks participate in issues by other banks/financial service providers (e.g. syndications, bonds) or enter into business relationships with them. We research the required information, analyse the business partners - including their markets/domicile countries - and highlight the potential/incurred (default/issuer) risks.

• Company acquisitions / sales / takeovers and other M&A transactions. We determine the strengths and weaknesses of the companies on the basis of the information we have researched and/or (additionally) provided by the clients (e.g. due diligence), calculate their value in the context of the buyer/seller (synergies), analyse the markets and, if applicable, the countries of domicile of the takeover candidates and offer - naturally in strict confidence - advisory services associated with the purchase/sale transaction (e.g. advice in advance, financing alternatives).

• Business start-ups / company succession. After careful analysis, we advise (potential) business founders and successors or prospective takeover candidates on the profitability and opportunities/risks of individual business areas and (new) opportunities that arise for the company - possibly in new markets. Especially for start-ups, we document the results in a business plan or in a comprehensive business concept as the result of all individual planning. They serve as an indispensable basis for loan/subsidy applications or discussions. [If required, we can also provide advice on the scope of liability/choice of legal form, selection of/application for subsidies, start-up financing and securing liquidity.

• Companies / firms that are preparing for a bank / savings bank rating - in advance of credit discussions - or are considering having a rating agency rate them: we prepare them for this in a targeted manner and provide recommendations on how they can improve their rating.
  
  
• We offer banks and companies consulting services for the introduction, implementation/application and further development of internal rating and scoring systems for customers, suppliers and other business partners. We also consider issues such as data quality/consistency, methodology, group links/probability of support, country risks, overruling, and others.
  
  
• Entrepreneurs / managing directors / managers constantly need meaningful key figures and indicators for the control and risk transparency (KonTraG) of their company. We support you and your employees in the design of meaningful reporting and the selection, use and evaluation/interpretation of suitable management and controlling tools/methods (= management assistance).

• Companies often have an unorganised financing structure, which can lead to problems in the event of liquidity bottlenecks, the need for follow-up financing or acute investment requirements. We examine the financial instruments used, the specified covenants, the maturities and credit lines, uncover weaknesses in the financing structure and show ways and means of eliminating them, not least by using alternative financing options such as leasing, factoring, bonds, mezzanine capital and, if necessary, subsidies and/or private equity investors.

• Companies / banks / investors often require event-driven information, analyses and advice. We offer information research and event analyses on specific events as well as highlighting causes and effects - such as the European property markets against the backdrop of a global crisis.
  
  
• In a constantly changing environment, companies are constantly exposed to new risks and opportunities. Based on a comprehensive situation and market/country analysis, we prepare a crisis prophylaxis or a success potential analysis for your company, depending on the development trend.
  
  
• Companies endeavour to raise their profile - periodically (e.g. after annual financial statements) or on special occasions (e.g. new products or subsidiaries, anniversaries). We formulate the relevant press releases in the context of your public relations work and place them - where possible - in the desired press organisations. 
  
  
• Companies must constantly maintain and optimise their relationships with investors and lenders. We support them in confidence-building measures and improving the necessary transparency/communication as part of our investor relations consultancy services.

• Institutions and freelancers often work in an advisory capacity or have to provide qualified answers to clients' questions as part of their area of responsibility. As a valid basis for this, we offer them purposefully prepared and analysed information, which we compile into compact, clear and comprehensible reports. As a pure data research service, we offer (uncommented) data, press releases, etc. within this framework. Information documents on selected topics/objects (e.g. company profile, market report) without analysis/evaluation.

• Business editors / educational institutions / consultants require up-to-date reporting and selective developments on a specific topic as well as related facts on events, people, companies and the economic environment. In addition to the required information, we also offer competent analyses / interpretations / comprehensible summaries of complex topics from various publications. 
  
  
• For customers from all target groups, we offer in-house training events / seminars and presentations on the above-mentioned tasks and specialist areas and other related topics. These can, for example, contribute to a better understanding of the data selection and analysis results for a larger group of involved employees and thus to easier implementation.