Insuring commercial transactions against insolvency or protracted default.  For international trade, external factors such as import and trade restrictions and political instability.

To work for the public sector, most blue chip Companies and an increasing number of smaller players, it is necessary to comply with an ever expanding list of standards such as ISO9000, ISO17000, ISO17799, ISO27001: 2005 as well as product specific standards.  In the public sector their statutory requirements to meet various equality duties on disability, race and gender will inevitably spill over into supplier tender requirements.