Your debtor is abroad. Our collector is already there.
INTERCOL recovers cross-border B2B debts through local specialists embedded in 40+ jurisdictions — operating in the debtor's language, under the debtor's legal system, with the leverage that only local presence provides.
THE REALITY
The distance between you and your money isn't measured in kilometres
Your client in Lyon owes €175,000. They stopped responding to emails three months ago. Your accounts team has sent four reminders in English, each progressively firmer. The silence continues.
Here is what your team may not know: French commercial culture considers English-language collection correspondence borderline inappropriate for financial matters. Your debtor's financial controller almost certainly read your emails, categorised them as unserious, and moved on. This is not rudeness — it is a cultural norm that your internal credit team has no reason to be aware of.
Now multiply this by every jurisdiction where you trade. The debtor in Istanbul who requires a formal noter protest before legal proceedings become viable. The distributor in Milan whose restructuring proceedings follow rules that bear no resemblance to UK administration. The manufacturer in Shenzhen whose payment behaviour is governed by relationship dynamics that a cold collection letter will never penetrate.
International debt collection is not domestic debt collection conducted at a greater distance. It is a fundamentally different discipline — one that requires local presence, local language, local legal knowledge, and the cultural fluency to know which approach will produce payment and which will produce silence.