Credit Benchmark Appoints Michael Crumpler as Chief Executive Officer
London and New York, July 18, 2023 – Credit Benchmark, a global leader in the credit risk data and analytics space, has announced the appointment of Michael Crumpler as Chief Executive Officer. Donal Smith, current CEO and Co-Founder, will be remaining on in his capacity as Executive Chairman working alongside Michael and the executive team. […]
New Report Tracks Historic Decline in Credit Quality Across Corporates, Sovereigns and Leveraged Loans
New York, NY, January 28, 2021 – Global Corporate Credit Risk Increased 20% in 2020, with More than Half of Corporate Bonds Falling Below Investment Grade, According to Credit Benchmark Year-in-Review While most credit issuers managed to stave off defaults thanks to massive government support programs, the scale of downgrades and overall credit quality deterioration […]
Bloomberg Adds Credit Benchmark Credit Risk Data
Bloomberg announced today that it will make Credit Benchmark’s credit risk data—derived from the risk views of the world’s largest financial institutions–available on the Bloomberg Terminal, and also for clients to license the data for an enterprise use case. The company will make this unique anonymized consensus data available alongside existing credit risk datasets and […]
Credit Benchmark Partners With New Global Peer Financing Association
June 23, 2020 — Credit Benchmark are proud to support the Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA), a new association recently formed by a group of beneficial owners to create a more efficient way of engaging in peer-to-peer (P2P) securities financing transactions. Four leading pension plans, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), Healthcare of Ontario Pension […]
Credit Benchmark Launches Credit Consensus Indicator – New Monthly Measure of Credit Risk for US, UK and EU Industrials
New York, NY, June 24, 2019 — June CCI Shows “Cracks in Foundation” for US and European Industrial Corporate Credit Quality. Credit Benchmark, the leader in consensus based credit analytics, today announced the launch of a new monthly measure of credit risk for US and European corporates in the industrials sector. The Credit Benchmark Credit […]
Credit Benchmark Announces Craig Broderick Head of New Advisory Board
New York, NY, April 24, 2019 — Credit Benchmark, the leader in consensus credit data and analytics, announced the establishment of a new advisory board led by Craig Broderick, former chief risk officer (CRO) of Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Broderick retired from Goldman Sachs in January 2018 after 32 years, having served as CRO […]
Credit Benchmark Plans Expansion of Consensus Credit Risk Analytics Offerings
Now Publishing Credit Risk Views on 22,000 Entities – Credit Benchmark Raises Capital to Fuel Next Phase of Growth New York – October 18, 2018 — Credit Benchmark, the leader in consensus based credit analytics, has announced plans to expand its offerings and scale its contributed data model, solidifying its standing as the largest source […]
Credit Benchmark To Discuss The Role Of Crowdsourced Credit Data In Insurance At RiskMinds Insurance
London, 8th March 2017 – David Carruthers, Head of Research at Credit Benchmark, will be speaking about ‘Recent Developments in Crowd-Sourced Credit Risk Benchmarking’ at RiskMinds Insurance at Hotel Okura, Amsterdam at 2.35pm on Wednesday March 15th. With insurance companies around the world facing major challenges, from record low interest rates and low annuity rates, to a […]
Credit Benchmark Publishes White Paper On Sovereign CDS Pricing
Credit Benchmark today announced the publication of their latest White Paper “Sovereign Credit Default Swaps and Consensus Credit Estimates”. The paper shows that consensus credit risk data sourced from IRB banks can be combined with market data to give realistic, indicative valuations for a broad range of traded and untraded assets. This framework has many […]
Credit Benchmark Establishes Advisory Group To Advise On Data Development
Credit Benchmark today announced the establishment of an Advisory Group to provide guidance on the development of the company’s data and services. The Advisory Group’s members are senior credit risk professionals and academics from Europe and North America. Current members include: Thomas Aubrey, Consultant to Credit Benchmark (Chair) Damiano Brigo – Independent Consultant and Professor of […]
