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Credit Correlations: Avoiding Unnecessary Risks

With default risks expected to rise in 2023, correlations between those risks are increasingly important for credit portfolio management. Exposures to different sectors – that normally diversify the portfolio – may show a simultaneous increase in risk during difficult economic conditions. This paper shows how Consensus credit data can be used to estimate credit correlations between regions, countries, industries, and sectors.

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January 9, 2023

COP27: Failure is Not an Option

COP27 needs to answer one question: is a declining standard of living the price of a sustainable future? Countries with weaker credit ratings will typically see more impact of climate change – with some exceptions. This report compares Sovereign credit against climate impact risk.

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November 10, 2022

US Basic Materials Credit Trends: Turning Point?

The Basic Materials Industry includes Chemicals, Metals, Mining, Forestry and Paper. Output prices for these sectors have been very volatile in the past 12 months, reflecting recent rapid structural changes in the global economy. However, US Basic Materials has shown a recent turning point.

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September 26, 2022

Credit Consensus Ratings and Risk Sharing Portfolios

Risk sharing transactions are a rapidly growing asset class, and have provided attractive returns over the past decade. As corporate credit becomes more unstable, emerging risks – and opportunities – highlight the need for comprehensive credit data for accurate transaction pricing. This paper details how Credit Consensus Ratings and Aggregates provide a detailed map of the credit market risk-reward landscape, including possible anomalies.

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July 5, 2022

Credit Consensus Ratings & Risk Sharing

For investors in Risk Sharing products, transparency is key. This report uses Credit Consensus Ratings to compare a single bank’s view of a typical risk sharing portfolio with the broader bank peer group view of the same portfolios. This unique dataset can be used for industry trend tracking, portfolio analytics, and single name assessments.

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June 1, 2022

US Energy Sector: Credit and Equity

Shifting energy sector dynamics have been a bonanza for US oil and gas companies, with prices spiking and share prices following suit. Strong share performance does not always correlate with strong credit quality, however. This analysis shows the relationship between Credit Consensus Ratings and US energy sector equity price changes in 2022.

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May 26, 2022

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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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