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The Desk: Rules and Ratings: Understanding gaps between credit risk data and credit ratings
November 13, 2024
Bloomberg’s Zane Van Dusen speaks to The Desk on the value of alternative sources of credit risk data beyond traditional credit ratings. In the interview, Zane highlights the powerful utility of Credit Benchmark’s Credit Consensus Ratings and descriptive analytics for assessing private credit risk.

Risk.net: Credit Benchmark wins Credit Data Provider of the Year
Credit Benchmark has been recognised as Credit Data Provider of the Year by Risk.net in the Risk Technology Awards which took place in London on

UN World Happiness Report: Does High Sovereign Credit Quality = Happy People?
The UN recently released their 7th World Happiness Report, which ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The results of

Will Chinese Investment in Italy be a Game Changer?
Recently Italy and China signed a “memorandum of understanding” announcing their intentions to work together on China’s massive investment and infrastructure project, the Belt and

Credit Outlook: US Large Consumer Goods
The charts show Credit Benchmark’s credit risk data on Large Consumer Goods companies in the US sourced from 30+ of the world’s leading financial institutions.

February Credit Update: Consensus Upgrades Continue to Outweigh Downgrades for Financials
Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from January 2019) based on contributions from 30+ financial institutions, covering over 25,500 separate legal

Housing Association Magazine: Brexit And Its Effect On Housebuilding
David Carruthers discusses factors affecting the credit quality of the housing association sector : ”Brexit is on the horizon, and depending on the outcome, credit

Business Insider: The Credit Of British Companies Is Declining In Quality
In Business Insider, David Carruthers discusses the declining credit quality of British companies is declining in quality, and austerity and Brexit are largely to blame.