Whitepapers
2025 Default Risk Outlook: US Industries (Q3 Update)
Credit Benchmark’s 2025 US Default Risk Outlook covers 12 US Industries. The report predicts US default risks to remain stable over the next 12 months as rate cuts cushion the impact of a slowing economy, but some industries face challenges.
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Global Insurance in an Era of Heightened Risk
After two tumultuous years, the global insurance market has proven its resilience, but challenges of the “new normal” are increasing. A new whitepaper examines the state of global insurance in an era of heightened risk, focusing on regional and sector trends alongside single company examples.
Trade Credit Risk and Supply Chains: The Post-Pandemic Landscape
Supply chains and trade credit are now critical in a post-COVID world. With disruption the new status quo, trade volumes are likely to fluctuate in the coming months. Though technology is helping to create more flexible supply chains. there is a long way to go to repair the damage from COVID. It is more important than ever for businesses to understand the end-to-end credit risk of their supply chains. This whitepaper demonstrates how credit consensus ratings provide part of the solution.
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Post-COVID Trade Credit Risk
Global supply chains were showing signs of strain pre-COVID and now that the world economy is in the process of a full-scale restructuring, the credit implications are wide-ranging and long-term. This whitepaper details some factors reshaping supply chains and presents single company case studies using a combination of Bloomberg supply chain data and Credit Consensus Ratings (“CCRs”).
The Covid Year: Review of Credit and Solvency Trends in 2020
The 2020 pandemic brought various forms of disruption and hardship, and Governments and businesses around the world had to rely on trial and error to find the best response. There have been some high-profile corporate winners – and many losers. This report shows the key credit and solvency trends that emerged in 2020 and provides some pointers towards what we can expect in 2021.
Impairment Trends: Consensus Point-in-Time Curves
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how sensitive banks’ impairment numbers are to changes in the economy. In a new report, we use aggregated PIT PD curves to look at the impact COVID-19 has had on banks’ forecasts of credit risk and impairment.
How the Virus Crisis Infected Credit & Solvency: Global Trends
Credit Benchmark have released a new whitepaper, using Consensus credit estimates for the past few months to assess the impact of COVID-19 on credit and solvency across the global economy. The analysis looks at countries, industries, and sectors, as well as individual corporate borrowers.
