The Containers and Packaging Sector has boomed during the pandemic, but increasing legislation around plastic packaging will require investment from producers. This analysis looks at pre- and post-COVID credit trends for the Europe & US sectors, plus single company credit risk examples for a number of leading producers.
The Russian intervention in Kazakhstan highlights the global importance of uranium supplies for military and power generation purposes, and with a number of countries considering expansion of nuclear energy programs, major uranium producers stand to benefit. This analysis details the credit quality trends for global firms involved in uranium production.
Credit Benchmark have released the December 2021 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). Good news holds out in the latest CCI data, at least for the US and EU. Scores are still positive for these two regions, highlighting that consensus credit risk opinions point to greater improvement than deterioration. The UK score has shifted into negative territory.
Contentious pending Basel rules have led critics to warn that higher risk weights for unrated corporates and funds will lead to a dramatic increase in bank capital requirements and an overall reduction in lending activity. This analysis examines the breadth of impact on the thousands of high quality entities that are not publicly rated.
COP26 has made headlines, but the real debate is about the need for speed in translating pledges into action. Consensus credit data shows that nations with the most to lose from climate impact also have the least available resources to enact change – leaving the responsibility largely in the hands of developed economies with strong sovereign credit ratings.
Accelerated technology adoption in the financial services sector is creating new systemic risks to the global financial system, according to a new report. ‘Beneath the Surface: Technology-driven systemic risks and the continued need for innovation’ explores the relationship between increased technology adoption and the potential shock of cascading risk factors.
Credit Benchmark have released the October 2021 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). The economies of the UK, EU, and US, may have improved from the low points of the last few years, but they aren’t out of the woods just yet. Neither are their respective industrial firms.
Credit Benchmark have released the September 2021 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). The latest forward-looking consensus data confirms the notion that an improving trend in industrials may be slower or more uneven than previously anticipated.
Credit Benchmark have released the August 2021 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). There is reason for optimism in the latest CCI data. Scores for the UK, EU, and US are all above 50.
As vaccine rollout varies globally, it is clear that the economic bounceback from Covid will be led by the largest and most developed economies. Overall vaccination figures show that the global pandemic is far from over; but trends in the credit consensus are already giving some clues to the shape of the expected global economic recovery.
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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