Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from March 2018), with 22 contributor banks. The set of bank-sourced credit views (CBCs*) has increased by 25%, and now covers almost 19,000 separate legal entities.
Monthly consensus upgrades and downgrades (including Funds):
Last month showed improvements across 326 obligors and deterioration across 237, with 37 moving by more than one notch.
Industries:
*Credit Benchmark Consensus (“CBC”): this is a 21-category alphanumeric scale based on bank-sourced one-year probability of default estimates. It is similar to the scale used by the main credit rating agencies, so that a CBC of bbb is approximately equivalent to BBB reported by S&P and Fitch, and Baa2 reported by Moody’s
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