Commercial Surety
Learn how your organization can benefit from commercial surety.
Today’s competitive landscape, coupled with a volatile economic outlook, demands surety program certainty and
sustainability. An efficient bond program can enhance corporate liquidity and maximize working capital.
What is Commercial Surety Bonding?
Surety bonds are financial instruments used between three parties: the Principal, the Beneficiary and the Surety entity issuing the bond. Surety bonds offer the advantages of helping clients meet capital requirements, optimize their cost of capital, and provide an off-balance sheet solution to letters of credit.
Surety considerations:
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Facility Size
- Based on the financial strength of the applicant and/or the parent group.
- Surety may offer the applicant an unsecured Surety facility.
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Bond Issue
- Subject to satisfactory review of the bonding obligation and draft bond wording.
- Premium is paid, then the bond is issued by the Surety to the Beneficiary.
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Indemnity Agreement
- Applicant (and/or Parent) will enter into an Indemnity Agreement with the Surety provider.
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Indemnity Agreement
- is in simplified terms similar to a ‘Parent Company Guarantee’.
- is a legal undertaking from the applicant that it will reimburse the Surety in the event that there is a call on the bond.
- is similar to the counter indemnity agreement between the bank and applicant for bank guarantee facilities.
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A Valuable Alternative and Complement to Bank Guarantees
Benefits of Surety
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Ability to release working capital and credit facilities from the bank
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On Demand Guarantees & conditional wordings will allow room for negotiation with the beneficiary
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Competitive pricing, especially when compared to bank guarantees
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Reduced need for security, relying instead on a group counter indemnity
Surety Process
Surety facilities help support organisations by providing additional liquidity that improves working capital and increases flexibility.
A surety bond is a financial instrument through which an insurance company – the ‘surety provider’ – guarantees the successful performance of a contract by a business – the ‘Principal’ – to a third party – known as the ‘Beneficiary’ or ‘Obligee’. If the Principal fails to deliver on their contractual requirements, the surety provider will compensate the Beneficiary.
Our focus is to help you maximize working capital efficiency and facilitate the growth of your business.
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Capacity
Aon can approach the Surety market globally for all the client’s Surety needs.
The size of the Surety lines depend on due diligence undertaken with the client.
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Pricing
By utilising Aon's extensive expertise, we are able to offer competitive prices in all regions.
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Indemnity
We help the client to negotiate the best terms within the indemnity agreement.
Indemnities are generally negotiated on an unsecured basis.
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Flexibility
Surety lines could be used to issue guarantees directly, or they can be used by working in conjunction with banks to share capacity, or as a fronted solution.
How Aon Can Help
Aon Surety helps clients make better decisions by carefully evaluating their strengths and opportunities, sharing the surety options available to them and creating custom solutions to help them achieve their goals. Aon conducts nearly 175,000 surety transactions annually and manages over $200 billion in surety liability, placing us as one of the largest surety brokers. Our team comprises some of the strongest surety consultants in the world, with deep experience managing programs with complex indemnity structures, high-volume transaction counts and significant risk analysis.
We combine this knowledge and experience with custom client benchmarking, exclusive data and analytics and leading technology (AonBondLink 2.0) to offer comprehensive surety services, which, depending on the jurisdiction, may include:
- License and Permit Bonds
- Guaranteed Payment Bonds
- Lease Bonds
- Pension Bonds
- Insurance Program Bonds
- Customs Bonds
- Appeal and Other Court Bonds
- Environmental and Reclamation Bonds
- Closure and Post-Closure Bonds
- Performance, Subdivision, Escrow and Completion Bonds
- Service and Supply Contracts
- Solutions for Private Equity, Bankruptcy and Captives
$200B
Aon conducts nearly 175,000 surety transactions every year, managing over $200 billion in surety liability, giving us unmatched experience in the syndication of surety products.
A Valuable Alternative and Complement to Bank Guarantees
In the last decade, the surety bond market has picked up pace. More businesses in more industries are seeing surety as a flexible and cost-effective alternative to banks when contractually requested to provide guarantees to third parties. While banks are still playing a significant role and have the largest share of the guarantee market in many countries – particularly in regions where the credit worthiness of businesses is more robust – the surety market in recent years has gained a great deal of traction compared to banks.
