Resource Downloads
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Building a Solid Surety Relationship
This PowerPoint® presentation explains the importance and benefits of establishing a stable relationship with a professional surety bond producer and surety underwriter. -
Construction and Beyond: Surety Bonds for Public Works
This PowerPoint® presentation defines bid, performance, and payment bonds and details the prequalification process and the responsibilities of the public owner. -
Contract Surety Bonds 101: The Basics of Bonding
This PowerPoint explains the basics of the bonding process including how a surety company’s financial resources back a contractor’s commitments to enter into a contract with an owner and how a contractor must qualify to meet a surety’s comprehensive underwriting standards. -
Contract Surety Bonds: Understanding Today's Market
Examines the state of the current surety market. Recent industry performance is covered along with a look at today's underwriting standards, bond premiums, capacity, and claims. The presentation also offers advice to contractors for adapting to the market and developing a surety relationship. -
Informed Decisions: Surety Bonds or Bank Letters of Credit
Compares these two very different forms of risk management. The presentation examines: the prequalification process; effects on borrowing capacity; duration; how to obtain; cost; coverage; and how claims are handled. -
Investment Protection for Today's Construction Lender
This PowerPoint® presentation describes how surety bonds benefit construction lenders. -
Obtaining Surety Credit: An Introduction to the Surety Process for Contractors
This PowerPoint® presentation describes the process of obtaining a surety bond. -
Reducing Subcontractor Financial Risk
This PowerPoint® presentation explains to contractors the importance of establishing a subcontractor bonding policy. -
Risk & Responsibility: Understanding Contract Surety Bonds
This PowerPoint® presentation explains what surety bonds are, why they are required, how the prequalification process workds, and what happens in the event of contractor default. -
Surety Bonds -- The Sensible Choice For Managing Construction Risk
This PowerPoint describes how surety bonds help owners evaluate and manage risk on construction projects and the prequalification process that a surety performs in determining a contractor's ability to perform a job. -
Surety Bonds: The Sensible Choice for Managing Risk
This PowerPoint® presentation demonstrates how surety bonds help project owners evaluate and manage risk on their construction projects. -
The Benefits of Surety Bonds to Lenders
This presentation, which describes the value of surety bonds and how such bonds differ from other alternatives, such as subcontractor default insurance, is designed for surety professionals to present to lenders. -
Understanding the Benefits of Surety Bonding
This PowerPoint® presentation examines how surety bonds benefit owners, lenders, contractors, and others involved in the construction process. -
When You Build...Bond
This PowerPoint® presentation provides testimonials from a project owner, banker, and contractor on why they use bonds. -
Why Do Contractors Fail?
This PowerPoint® presentation explains the reasons a contractor may default on a project and gives warning signs that a contractor may be in trouble.
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