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Introducing the CB Specialist series, a monthly chat with various thought leaders across the Credit Benchmark community. In today’s post, David Carruthers, Head of Research
“Credit risk data is widely available for sovereigns and large corporates, but updates are infrequent and smaller companies are often ignored.” In this series of
Transition matrices can provide considerable insight into the likely pattern of losses over various time horizons (see summary below) – providing support for compliance with
The European Central Bank intends to cut the pace of quantitative easing from €80bn to €60bn from this month. This has hit some of Europe’s
It has been hard not to make money in emerging markets during the first quarter of 2017. The JP Morgan Emerging Market Currency Index enjoyed
With the election looming, French bonds have been under increasing scrutiny. The spread of French 10-year government bonds over the equivalent German bund reached a
UK insurers hoping Brexit might signal a bonfire of regulations, particularly the onerous and complex requirements of the Solvency II directive, got a glimpse of
In 2009 the UK’s Debt Management Office (DMO) oversaw record gilt issuance of £227 billion ($275 billion). At the time, Pimco’s Bill Gross described UK
Credit Benchmark are at the RiskMinds Insurance conference at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam this week. Mahim Mehra and team are around all day today
Outstanding derivative contracts are being progressively transferred to Central Counterparties (“CCPs”). The CCP framework is intended to minimize global (i.e. systemic) risk as well as
Credit Benchmark brings together internal credit risk views from over 40 leading global financial institutions. The contributions are anonymized, aggregated, and published in the form of consensus ratings and aggregate analytics to provide an independent, real-world perspective of credit risk. Risk and investment professionals at banks, insurance companies, asset managers and other financial firms use the data for insights into the unrated, monitoring and alerting within their portfolios, benchmarking, assessing and analyzing trends, and fulfilling regulatory requirements and capital.
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