David Carruthers

Colombia’s many economic and political advantages have been overshadowed for decades by the long running war with various rebel groups. The recently agreed peace deal

Poland’s credit standing is going down while Belgium’s rises. The divergence is mostly political. Poland’s economy is healthy and debts are low but the ruling

Sovereign credit ratings have been buoyed up for years by the belief that no matter how much governments actually borrowed, they were committed to coming

The UK’s currency remains very volatile post-Brexit, but may be recovering. The country’s credit rating may suffer more permanent damage. As yet, the credit world

Oil and Gas credit consensus isn’t following the price up The oil price has been trending sharply upwards for most of 2016. Even with a

This blog discusses the scale of the global pension funding crisis and highlights the risk to Sovereign credit ratings. This week the main holders of

This blog reports on the volatility of credit estimates measured by Credit Benchmark, compared with equity market volatility measured by the CBOE Volatility Index (the

The 2016 EU-wide stress test results covering 51 banks were published last week. Credit Benchmark data shows a clear relationship between risk and CET 1

The Southeast U.S.A. is in the middle of its annual hurricane season. In this blog, we look at the impact that a severe hurricane could