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Reports, customer stories, product news, and live events from the team building the specialty insurance platform.

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Credit insurance software: build it or buy it?

NEW Resources Test Lorem Ipsum September 9, 2026 All articles Test Lorem Ipsum Before investing in new credit insurance technology, most teams face the same fork in the road: build the system in-house or buy an off-the-shelf platform from a dedicated developer. Neither path is automatically right, and getting the decision wrong is expensive to undo. This 26-page whitepaper walks through how to weigh that decision properly, with input from Tinubu's own Senior VP and CTO on the questions worth asking before committing to either route.

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Contract Bond Underwriting Just Got Rebuilt

Surety has a ratio paradox. It is one of the best-performing lines in insurance and one of the most expensive to run. “When you look at the Surety ...

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Tinubu’s Digital Highway: from the Broker’s Seat

To get a bond issued today, an agent might touch four or five systems before it ever reaches the carrier. A spreadsheet to track bond numbers. A ...

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Why Surety Needs a Digital Bond Repository

Surety is one of the more attractive corners of the insurance market. The business is consistently profitable. The guarantee structure means carriers ...

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Building Surety’s Digital Highway

A leading broker in U.S. Surety still ships its bonds to the carrier by FedEx. Once a week, the broker packages a stack of bonds, drops them into a ...

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Top Surety Tech Trends According to Everest Group

Surety modernization is accelerating, but not always evenly. While some firms are pushing ahead with automation and integration, others are still ...

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Why Tinubu Clients Choose to Buy Not Build

Twenty years ago, Surety carriers that wanted best-in-class technology often had no choice but to build it themselves. That’s no longer the case.

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Bulk Surety Bond Renewals & Updates

For agencies managing large Surety portfolios, renewing and updating bonds has long been an exercise in repetition. Simple changes, like updating ...

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Surety and AI: What’s Next, and How to Adapt

“Let me start by saying I’m a guy who has been skeptical of technology revolutions in the past,” says General Manager of Tinubu Surety, Yaron ...

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Broker-Carrier Alignment: a Growing Divergence

Surety has always been built on relationships. Brokers and carriers depend on each other to issue bonds quickly, keep clients satisfied, and maintain ...

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Growth Amidst Inefficiency: The Surety Modernization Gap

The global Surety market is on track to grow from $20.26 billion in 2024 to $31.85 billion by 2031. But industry growth doesn’t guarantee success for ...

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Surety Builds America

When most people go to a sports stadium, see that a new hospital has opened, or watch a skyscraper rising, they notice concrete, steel, and heavy ...

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Building a Surety Bond Technology Platform

The costs and time demands of a homegrown system aren’t just related to the design and build: maintenance needs are ongoing and hard to predict. The ...

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The Impact of AI on Surety Now and in the Future

At Tinubu’s 2025 Customer Advisory Board meeting (CAB), one of the most anticipated presentations came from Mitchell Wein, Executive Principal of ...

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Vietnam: a market for credit insurance?

There have been many talks about credit insurance in Vietnam over the past 15 years. What are the opportunities for credit insurance in Vietnam, and ...

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Credit Insurance Ventures: 7 Key Steps

Amid the current evolving global economic landscape, demand for credit insurance is on the rise. This is generating interest among new players in ...

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Credit insurance startups: changing the game

The short-term credit insurance industry has been through significant change and growth in recent years. Today we look at how new arrivals are ...

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Greek exports: the new golden age

Greek exports continue to boom, with targeted government strategy and diversified activity playing a major part in the country’s economic comeback. ...

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How to attract millennials to surety

In 2020, millennials became the largest generation, outnumbering baby boomers, and they’ve been the largest generation in the U.S. workforce since ...

Surety Bonds: The Challenge for Indian Insurers
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Surety Bonds: The Challenge for Indian Insurers

Surety bonds are now accepted in India for government procurement. Despite this, it has been slow to take off. While surety offers insurers a major ...

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Four Ways to Deal with the Current Underwriter Shortage

It’s not a list you’d want your profession to be on — “The Most Endangered Jobs” — but that’s where insurance underwriters landed in 2016. Drawing on ...

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Help Your Agents Sell More by Going Digital

Surety bond producers are the lifeblood of the surety business. For many surety companies, agents are the only means of distributing their products. ...

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Cybersecurity Protections Every Surety Needs

Think about the technology investments your company is making to more efficiently manage your core processing, automate underwriting, enable ebonding ...

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Should you Rely on a Business Intelligence Software?

Efficient digitalization means better performance and higher competitivity for any business. However, the concern is about data. While a company can ...

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Agentic Underwriting: New Whitepaper

Tinubu is pleased to share a whitepaper by Thiru Sivasubramanian, Chief Product and Technology Officer, exploring why the next competitive frontier ...

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Launching a new credit insurance venture

Starting a credit insurance business from scratch means getting the foundational decisions right before the first policy is ever written: how to ...

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Why generic claims systems fail Surety

Surety claims are not like auto or property claims, yet most carriers still run them on systems built for exactly that kind of loss. A Surety claim ...

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Underwriting is a portfolio problem

Tinubu is pleased to share a whitepaper by Thiru Sivasubramanian, Chief Product and Technology Officer, exploring why the next competitive frontier ...

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Agentic AI for Specialty Claims: New Whitepaper

Tinubu is pleased to share a whitepaper by Paul Sicsic, VP Product, exploring why AI in specialty claims is fundamentally a judgment problem, not a ...

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Join Tinubu at ExCred Africa 2024

Tinubu is excited to announce that Emmanuel Pezé, Regional Sales Manager for Middle East & Africa, will attend ExCred Africa 2024 in Johannesburg ...

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Tinubu at GTR East Africa in Nairobi

This year's edition of GTR East Africa returns to Nairobi, Kenya. The event to be held on May 21-22 aims to provide the premier platform for ...

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Tinubu at GTR KSA in Riyadh

This year's edition of GTR KSA will be set in Riyadh. The event to be held on May 15 aims to connect with the key players and companies across ...

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Tinubu at ExCred International 2024 in London

ExCred International is the leading event for insuring global trade & investment. Tinubu is thrilled to sponsor the 2024 edition. Our team is ...

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Tinubu at ExCred Africa 2023 in Johannesburg

ExCred Africa is the leading event for insuring global trade & investment in Africa. Tinubu is thrilled to participate in the 2023 edition. Our ...

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Tinubu at the 2023 SFAA Annual Meeting

The Tinubu team will be in Washington, DC for the 2023 Surety and Fidelity Association of America (SFAA) Annual Meeting from May 31 to June 1, 2023.

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Tinubu at the NASBP 2023 Annual Meeting

The Tinubu team will be in Marco Island, FL for the 2023 National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP) Annual Meeting on April 30-May 3, ...

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Tinubu at GTR East Africa in Nairobi

GTR East Africa in Nairobi provides a leading platform to facilitate crucial debate on the key issues impacting the region’s trade, commodity, and ...

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Tinubu at TXF Global 2023 in Lisbon

The largest export, agency & project finance event, TXF Global, will be held this year on June 15 & 16. It will be set in Lisbon, Portugal. ...

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Tinubu at GTR Africa in Cape Town

The 2023 GTR Africa edition will be set in Cape Town, South Africa. The event to be held on March 16 & 17 aims to facilitate an acceleration of ...

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Tinubu at ExCred International 2023 in London

ExCred International is the leading event for insuring global trade and investment. Tinubu is thrilled to sponsor the 2023 edition. Our team is also ...

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Tinubu at the 2022 EXIM Annual Conference

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) is hosting its first in-person event in Washington, DC since the pandemic. Next week, the hybrid ...

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Tinubu at GTR Africa in London

African nations are striving to build self-sufficient economies for sustainable growth and to improve living standards. With young, growing ...

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Tinubu at the ITFA annual conference in Porto

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association, ITFA which represent the right and interests of banks, financial institutions, and service ...

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Tinubu at the AIO Conference in Nairobi

The African Insurance Organisation (AIO) is a non-governmental organization recognized by many African governments. It was initially established to ...

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Tinubu at ExCred International 2022 in London

ExCred International is the unmissable event for the export credit insurance sector. Tinubu is happy to sponsor this new edition. Our team is also ...

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Tinubu at GTR UK in London

Drawing inspiration from both the latest trends and the priorities for the UK trade and exports but also on an extensive range of global themes, ...

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Tinubu at TXF Global in Lisbon

TXF Global, the largest export, agency & project finance event, is offering all attendees an opportunity to reconnect in person in Lisbon. The ...

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Tinubu at GTR India in Mumbai

GTR India will return to Mumbai on May 24, 2022 for an exclusive one-day gathering. Reflecting on the latest India market developments, from trade ...

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Tinubu at the 2022 NASBP Annual Meeting

The Tinubu team will be in Palm Desert, CA for the 2022 National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP) Annual Meeting! Come visit our BOOTH ...

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Tinubu at GTR MENA 2022

GTR MENA is the region's most established trade and export finance conference covering critical market insight and providing excellent networking ...

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Tinubu at 2021 Fintech Abu Dhabi Festival

FinTech Abu Dhabi is MENA's leading event that explores the next frontier of financial technology and innovation. Co-hosted by Abu Dhabi Global ...

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Tinubu at InsurDay 2021

InsurDay is the day dedicated to innovation in insurance. Organised in Paris by Finance Innovation, the event brings together startups, large groups, ...

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Tinubu at ExCred International 2021

ExCred International, one of the export credit insurance industry major events, is offering us an opportunity to reconnect before the end of the ...

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Tinubu at AGC 2021 conference

Since the pandemic, we have not been able to meet face-to-face. Well, that is all changing and it's starting with the Associated General Contractors ...

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Tinubu at the 2021 NASBP Virtual Annual Meeting

The focus of the NASBP (National Association of Surety Bond Producers) in the past year has been about being present. Although in-person events have ...

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Tinubu at ExCred Digital 2021

This year, ExCred, one of the export credit insurance industry major events, will be Digital. Tinubu Square team will participate on March 23 and 24, ...

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Jérôme Pezé speaker at TXF CPRI 2021

Our CEO & Founder, Jérôme Pezé will be speaking at TXF CPRI 2021 on Thursday 4th. Join him during the conference on complements and ...

Tinubu Surety Solution for Carriers
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Tinubu Surety Solution for Carriers

A fact sheet about the Tinubu Surety Solution for Carriers, an industry-leading surety underwriting software.

Simulating Risk Propagation
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Simulating Risk Propagation

This technical paper from Innovation LAB’s white paper “The Augmented Underwriter” presents an innovative application of Markov chain theory to ...

Trends in payment experiences
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Trends in payment experiences

This extract from Innovation LAB’s white paper “The Augmented Underwriter” is a technical paper that explores the potential use of quantum computing ...

Predicting turnover evolution
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Predicting turnover evolution

This is an extract from the Innovation LAB's "The Augmented Underwriter" white paper. This technical paper discusses time series prediction, ...

Introducing Quantum Computing in Credit Scoring
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Introducing Quantum Computing in Credit Scoring

This extract from Innovation LAB’s white paper “The Augmented Underwriter” is a technical paper investigating what quantum computing could bring to ...

Extracting insights from News Feeds
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Extracting insights from News Feeds

This extract from Innovation LAB’s white paper “The Augmented Underwriter” is a technical paper showing how to exploit unstructured data with the ...

Hire a XAI Underwriter
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Hire a XAI Underwriter

This is an excerpt from the white paper titled "The Augmented Underwriter" by the Innovation LAB. The paper discusses XAI's main advantages and ...

Tinubu Company Profile
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Tinubu Company Profile

A company profile fact sheet presenting Tinubu and some success stories.

Surety Development in Europe: What to Expect?
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Surety Development in Europe: What to Expect?

A Market analysis thought on the European surety market and its maturity. Examining the evolving landscape, growth factors, and current state. By ...

Take a Quantum Leap
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Take a Quantum Leap

An infographic presenting an overview of Quantum computing