The company

History

Tinubu Square was founded in 2001 by three men from different business worlds. Jérôme Pezé, a credit insurance specialist; Pierre-Emmanuel Albert, a corporation finance executive; and Olivier Placa, an information systems expert, came from distinct professional backgrounds yet shared the belief that credit insurers and their customers needed flexible, innovative tools for managing policies and risk.

The trio recognized an opportunity to help insurers access innovative technologies and services that would provide current intelligence on buyers and mitigate risk through improved visibility and efficiency and focused risk and insurance management strategies. This opportunity turned into Tinubu Square.

In our first few years of business, TS became the expert that insurers rely on to help determine limits for their customers, and they trust us to provide the analysis and intelligence that they rely on to protect their risk. QBE, CESCE, SACE and many others are among the insurers using Tinubu Square as an intelligence and analysis resource. And soon insurance brokers, such as world-leader AON, began offering our software to their customers as a value-added solution for policy and risk management.

During our first decade, we realized that enterprises, with or without insurance, have the same credit risk management needs as insurers and brokers—greater visibility, better control over credit risk, reduced response delay, improved credit limit decision making, better productivity in managing credit risk. After enhancing Tinubu RMC to make it connect with enterprise ledgers, in 2010 we began offering our comprehensive solutions directly to corporate customers.

Today, more than 250 corporate customers of all sizes use Tinubu Credit Risk Intelligence Solutions to manage buyer credit risk across their enterprises and all affected business functions.

 
The story behind our name

Tinubu Square is also the name of a marketplace in Lagos, Nigeria. A dynamic spot filled with risk and opportunity, it is where Jérôme and Pierre-Emmanuel, two of our co-founders, gained their formative experience in risk management and debt collection. When looking for a name for their company, they drew parallels between the knowledge they gained while buying and selling goods and services in Lagos—know who you are trading with and get a guarantee of payment—and the needs of their new company’s customers. From this came the inspiration for the company name-Tinubu Square.