Company Announcements

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 –

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

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

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