July Credit Update: High Number of Upgrades and Downgrades, Upgrades Significantly Outnumber Downgrades
Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from June 2017), with 15 contributor banks now providing bank-sourced
Oil And Gas Pumping Up, With Upgrades Outweighing Downgrades For The First Time In 2017
Earlier this year, we unveiled the findings of our research into credit risk trends in the Oil & Gas sector. The report covered credit risk estimates for more than 384 entities in the sector, including many companies which are unrated by the “Big Three” credit ratings agencies. At the time the report was published, every sector of […]
Consensus Credit Risk Across Global Banks: Europe, Japan And U.S.
Credit Benchmark brings together the credit risk assessments of the world’s leading banks to deliver greater visibility into the credit quality of individual entities. Today’s blog post looks at the banking sector, specifically Scandinavia, the Visegrad group (Central Europe), Western Europe, the UK and Ireland, the U.S., Japan and Asia ex. Japan. Exhibit 1 compares […]
Consensus Credit Risk Across Global Banks: Europe, Japan And U.S.
Credit Benchmark brings together the credit risk assessments of the world’s leading banks to deliver greater visibility into the credit quality of individual entities. Today’s blog post looks at the banking sector, specifically Scandinavia, the Visegrad group (Central Europe), Western Europe, the UK and Ireland, the U.S., Japan and Asia ex. Japan. Exhibit 1 compares […]
June Credit Update: More Downgrades Than Upgrades, Coverage Includes Snap Inc
Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from May 2017), with 14 contributor banks now providing bank-sourced credit views (CBCs*) on more than 10,300 separate legal entities over the past 12 months. Sovereign coverage now includes Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis . Additions to the data include Snap Inc, Fossil Group […]
April Credit Update: More Downgrades Than Upgrades
Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from April 2017), with 13 contributor banks now providing bank-sourced credit views (CBCs*) on more than 8,400 separate legal entities. Additions to the data include Nvidia Corp, Insight Enterprises, Korean Airlines, Hormel Foods Corp, Tupperware Brands, National Basketball Association, England & Wales Cricket Board, SL […]
Spain: Improving Sovereign Credit Risk Owes More To Economics Than Politics
The Spanish economy grew by 0.8% in Q1 2017, an annual rate of more than 3%, higher than recent data for Germany, France and the Netherlands. Unemployment has been trending down and currently stands at a post-crisis low of 18%. Spain suffered more than most during the Eurozone downturn but is now in the economic […]
Oil and Gas Industry Trends
Global Oil Sector: Credit Trends May 2017Oil and Gas Industry Trends Executive Summary Download the PDF “Oil and Gas Industry Trends” This paper uses bank-sourced data to track recent credit risk trends in the Oil and Gas industry. The data covers 384 legal entities of which 185 do not have a Long Term rating from […]
March Credit Update: Downgrades And Upgrades Balanced; Coverage Includes Saudi Aramco
We have published credit data for March, with 12 contributor banks now providing crowd-sourced credit views (CBCs*) on more than 8,200 separate legal entities. Sovereign coverage now includes Government of Brunei Darussalam. Other additions include Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Banca Popolare di Bari, China ZheShang Bank, Cheniere Energy, Mueller Industries, Canada Goose, Parques Reunidos Servicios Centrales, […]
Understanding The Credit Benchmark Consensus (CBC) Indicator
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 at Credit Benchmark breaks down the basics of the Credit Benchmark Consensus indicator (CBC). The CBC is a 21-category scale explicitly linked to probability of default estimates sourced from major […]
