D&B Risk Assessment
Predicting bad debt and failure
Use D&B Risk Assessment to predict the likelihood that a business will fail. Markets, structures and legal conditions are in a constant state of flux, which is reflected in the new D&B scoring system. D&B has continued to extend its own database over the last few years, increasing the depth of information – there are scores available for 4.3 million German companies. Data on 1.5 million of these companies includes information on turnover and employee figures as well as industrial segment allocation according to SIC code. DunTrade® feeds more than 500 million data records into the D&B database every year.
Data volume
Scores available for 4.3 million German companies.
Failure score
Even more precision by including predictive dynamic data along with optimised segmentation and weighting in the score calculated.
Classification
New allocation according to risk classes
Credit recommendation
Optimised credit recommendation table with new credit recommendations for every company.
D&B Risk Assessment includes:
- D&B Score
- D&B Overrides
- D&B Financial Strength Indicator
- D&B Risk Indicator
- D&B Rating
- D&B Credit Limit Recommendation
Your advantages – How you benefit from D&B Risk Assessment
- Benefit from even more predictability
A variety of information on economic and structural changed in the market factor into D&B Risk Assessment. This gives you even higher predictive strength. - Keep abreast of the latest developments
All of the information fed into the D&B Score and D&B Credit Limit Recommendation calculations is automatically updated in real time. - Gain confidence in granting credit to suppliers
Simply compare the contract value of the credit recommendation and payments outstanding from the DunTrade® Programme information. Or compare your liabilities from your accounts payable with the credit recommendation. - Use the expertise of the score card pioneers
D&B was the first credit agency ever to develop scoring technologies – known as generic scorecards – 25 years ago, which it then included in its corporate information. D&B also uses objective scoring methods in risk assessment on companies in Germany, and has been playing a leading role in this discipline for more than 10 years.
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