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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.
Business Development Companies (BDCs)
The Business Development Company sector in the US has grown steadily over the past 20 years. While BDCs allow retail investors to gain liquid exposure to portfolios of private companies, their historically high returns have been dented recently by some steep falls in valuations and – in some cases – discounts to net asset values.
Structured Credit Investor Special Report: Data and Portfolio Optimisation
In the newly published special report from Structured Credit Investor (SCI), Mark Faulkner, co-founder, Credit Benchmark, investigates how Credit Consensus data can help support growth in SRT activity.
Economics Nobel Prize Highlights Credit Risk as “Crucial Information”
The recent award of the 2022 Nobel memorial prize in Economics to Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig for their work on banking regulation and liquidity highlights the connection between credit and liquidity, making the point that credit assessments are a form of market information.
October Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Industrials
UK Industrial firms are in a positive position for the fourth time this month, suggesting a trend of improvement is forming. EU Industrial firms have registered another positive CCI for this month, which is the thirteenth consecutive instance of a positive score. Consensus opinion on credit quality for US Industrial firms is still in positive territory, although their CCI score has significantly decreased from last month.
October Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Oil & Gas
Credit Benchmark have released the October 2022 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). This month US Oil & Gas firms return to positive credit quality. UK Oil & Gas firms maintain positive territory once again and EU Oil & Gas firms avoid net deterioration territory for a fourth month running.
September 2022 Financial Counterpart Monitor
The Financial Counterpart Monitor from Credit Benchmark provides a unique analysis of the changing creditworthiness of financial institutions.
