Company Announcements
Credit Benchmark Co-Founder And Executive Chairman Donal Smith Takes Over As CEO
Credit Benchmark today announced that Donal Smith, co-founder and executive chairman, is to become CEO. Smith started Credit Benchmark in 2012 with fellow entrepreneur Mark Faulkner, who remains actively involved as a Director with responsibility for data acquisition and innovation; Elly Hardwick, who led the company as CEO since its
Credit Benchmark Raises $20m In Series B Financing Led By Balderton Capital
New investment underlines support for credible and robust collaborative model in credit risk ratings globally Comprehensive data platform aggregates banks’ own estimates to provide independent, valuable consensus on financial risk for a universe, 90% of which is not rated by traditional agencies US expansion to be accelerated by new Chief
$7m Series A Financing Completed
Credit Benchmark, an innovative financial technology company founded by serial entrepreneurs Mark Faulkner and Donal Smith, announces today that it has raised $7m in a Series A financing round led by Index Ventures to accelerate its development of a new data source in the $6bn credit risk information market. Today
Credit Benchmark At RiskMinds 2013
Credit Benchmark CEO Elly Hardwick, together with Head of Business Development Mahim Mehra and Credit Risk Advisory Thomas Aubrey presented a progress update on the Proof of Concept at the RiskMinds Conference in Amsterdam. The interest generated at the event as well as the rest of the conference clearly indicated
Credit Benchmark Insights July 2013
The long-waited report The long-awaited report from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on the banking book risk weighted asset (RWA) comparison1 was published earlier this month. The report includes the results of the bank’s Autumn 2012 bottom-up portfolio benchmarking exercise, an effort that compiled risk estimates on over 1,000
