Company Announcements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 –