IAT Surety

A member of our Financial Services community since May, 2019.

IAT is the largest privately owned surety company in the industry. Today, we operate out of 20 regional locations throughout the United States. Our major lines of business include: Contract, Commercial, Subdivision, Specialty, and Bail. Through close partnerships with our network of independent agents, our regional offices have the resources to make quick and informed […more]


Contractor Financials Taxonomy, Demonstration Release

The XBRL US Surety Working Group has developed the initial release of the Contractor Financials Taxonomy, which contains data standards to capture income statement and balance sheet information about contractors. The taxonomy was created by starting with an initial set of data standards contributed by Crowe LLP, a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm. The […more]


NASBP Pipeline Article: Is Manual Data Entry Dead?

The gruesome (and grueling) days of painful re-keying of data may be coming to an end. Could data standards be the magic bullet? The National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP) has been touting the value of financial data standards for several years now. Why data standards? Because they are a proven tool to eliminate […more]


Improve Underwriting Efficiency – Learn How to Use the Surety Standards Toolkit

3:00 PM EDT Tuesday, September 19, 2017
XBRL US Webinar
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The Work-in-Process (WIP) report and other financials can be delivered in useable form directly from contractor to surety eliminating manual rekeying of data, improving timeliness and access to credit for contractors. Financial data standards can automate the process. Join this webinar to view demonstrations for creating and consuming XBRL-formatted WIP reports.


Financial Data Standards Successful at Automating Data Collection in Surety Underwriting

Standards have been used to successfully automate the collection of data for surety underwriting which historically has been a highly manual process. XBRL was used to enable the consistent and accurate consumption of financial data from contractors into a surety’s financial database, helping to streamline contractor access to credit and increase underwriting efficiency.


Standards to Automate Processing for Contractors, Agents & Sureties

3:00 PM EDT Wednesday, March 29, 2017
XBRL US Webinar
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The Work-in-Process (WIP) report and other financials can be delivered in useable form directly from contractor to surety eliminating manual rekeying of data, improving timeliness and access to credit for contractors. Financial data standards can automate the process. Join this webinar to view demonstrations for creating and consuming XBRL-formatted WIP reports.


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Contractor Financials Taxonomy Legal Notice

Notice Authorized Uses of this Document Copyright © 2019 XBRL US, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Contractor Taxonomy may be used by the public, royalty-free and may be incorporated without change in other works that comment on, explain, or assist in the use or implementation of the XBRL US Contractor Taxonomy. To that end, this […more]


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Spreadsheet Converter

This tool will allow you to convert an Excel spreadsheet into an XBRL instance document, and is consistent with the WIP template format used by the Small Business Administration (SBA)  for the SBA Surety Guarantee Program (Read the SBA Notice to Prior Approval Surety Partners and the SBA Announcement). The NASBP WIP Spreadsheet is part of […more]


Automating Work-in-Process (WIP), Improving Contractor Access to Credit

Marcum LLP successfully created a computer-readable WIP report to help contractor clients provide financial performance data to surety carriers that can be automatically extracted with no rekeying of data. Marcum created the report by performing a one-time mapping using a spreadsheet add-in that converted the WIP data into XBRL format. XBRL is an open data […more]


Automation Improves Underwriting Process for Contractors and Sureties

The Hartford demonstrates how a one-time investment in data standards can be used by brokers to streamline their own data processing; and by surety carriers to eliminate the need for manual data entry, improve the credit evaluation process and offer better service to contractor customers.