Coface SA — Board/Management Information 2016

Jul 12, 2016

Paris, 12 July 2016

Thomas Jacquet appointed Coface Group Investor Relations & Rating Agencies Director

Thomas Jacquet will be joining Coface credit insurer on 12 September as Group Investor Relations & Rating Agencies Director. He succeeds Nicolas Andriopoulos, appointed Managing Director of Coface Re, who continues to manage the Group's internal and external reinsurance. Thomas Jacquet will report to Carine Pichon, Group Chief Finance & Risk Officer.

Drawing on his knowledge of capital markets and his extensive experience as a financial analyst in the insurance sector, Thomas will strengthen relations with investors, financial analysts and rating agencies, and will develop the Group's

financial communications policy. He will work closely with Cécile Combeau, Investor Relations Officer since Coface entered the stock market in 2014.

Over the course of his career Thomas Jacquet has developed deep expertise in financial analysis, in particular in the insurance sector, establishing and building relations with the sector's main specialist investors. From 2008 he was Director of European Insurance at Exane BNPParibas and managed a team of analysts, between London and Paris, responsible for covering European insurance companies within the equity research department. His team came 6th in the latest Extel Europe ranking.

He began his career in 1999, joining Charles Riley Consultants International, primarily to manage projects in the banking sector. He became a financial analyst in 2001 at Natexis Bleichroeder, covering the European insurance and banking sectors, before joining CA Cheuvreux in 2005, where he became Head of Insurance.

Thomas Jacquet is a graduate of the French National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA Charterholder).

CONTACTS

MEDIA

Maria KRELLENSTEIN T. +33 (0)1 49 02 16 29 maria.krellenstein@coface.com

Justine LANSAC T. +33 (0)1 49 02 24 48 justine.lansac@coface.com ANALYSTS / INVESTORS

Cécile COMBEAU T. +33 (0)1 49 02 22 94 investors@coface.com

FINANCIAL CALENDAR 2016

July 27th 2016: publication of H1-2016 results September 22nd 2016: Investors' Day November 3rd 2016: publication of 9M-2016 results

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

This press release, as well as Coface SA's integral regulatory information, can be found on the Group's website: http://www.coface.com/Investors

About Coface

The Coface Group, a worldwide leader in credit insurance, offers companies around the globe solutions to protect them against the risk of financial default of their clients, both on the domestic market and for export. In 2015, the Group, supported by its 4,500 staff, posted a consolidated turnover of €1.490 billion. Present directly or indirectly in 100 countries, it secures transactions of 40,000 companies in more than 200 countries. Each quarter, Coface publishes its assessments of country risk for 160 countries, based on its unique knowledge of companies' payment behaviour and on the expertise of its 660 underwriters and credit analysts located close to clients and their debtors. In France, Coface manages export public guarantees on behalf of the French State.

www.coface.com

Coface SA. is listed on Euronext Paris – Compartment A ISIN: FR0010667147 / Ticker: COFA