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2024/25 Default Risk Outlook: UK Industries
Credit Benchmark’s new 2024/25 Default Risk Outlook for UK Industries predicts UK default risks to plateau in next 12 months; Basic Materials, Telecoms and Technology predicted to show >10% increase in default risk by Q2 2025.
February Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Industrials
Credit Benchmark have released the February Industrials Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). Credit Benchmark have released the February Industrials Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). EU Industrial firms continue their run of positive credit movement, with a 17th month of improvement. UK Industrial firms continue to register a negative CCI this month. US Industrial firms return to negative credit balance.
February Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – Global, UK & US Oil & Gas
Credit Benchmark have released the February 2023 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). UK Oil & Gas firms have ended their streak of five consecutive month of positive credit balance, with a return to negative credit balance, while Global and US firms continue to enjoy net credit improvement.
January 2023 Financial Counterpart Monitor
The Financial Counterpart Monitor from Credit Benchmark provides a unique analysis of the changing creditworthiness of financial institutions.
January 2023 Industry Monitor
Credit Benchmark have released the latest end-month industry update, based on the final and complete set of the contributed credit risk estimates from 40+ global financial institutions.
The End of 3G: A Credit Boost for US Telecoms?
3G has been a major legacy network overhead and consumer of spectrum bandwidth in the US. But as 5G moves into high gear the Big 3 wireless carriers needed to reallocate capacity to fully support the 5G network, and free up resource for the development of 6G and beyond. With the 3G burden removed, the sector’s Big 3 are better placed to invest in future technologies with less strain on balance sheets.
Credit Correlations: Avoiding Unnecessary Risks
With default risks expected to rise in 2023, correlations between those risks are increasingly important for credit portfolio management. Exposures to different sectors – that normally diversify the portfolio – may show a simultaneous increase in risk during difficult economic conditions. This paper shows how Consensus credit data can be used to estimate credit correlations between regions, countries, industries, and sectors.
