Credit Benchmark have released the April Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). US Industrial companies continue to improve in credit quality, while UK firms are edging closer to positive territory. The same can’t be said for EU firms, which moved in the opposite direction in the latest update.
Credit Benchmark have released the March Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). The US is the real standout this month. For the first time in an over a year, forward-looking sentiment is above 50.
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.
Credit Benchmark’s latest whitepaper explores how consensus credit risk data can potentially be used in identifying tradeable short-to medium-term anomalies in Government bond prices.
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
Rising global rates, coupled with trade tensions, have contributed to the recent bout of volatility in emerging markets. Venezuela now has hyperinflation, Argentina is struggling
The decline of the Turkish Lira has raised a number of financial contagion worries. Initially these focused on European banks, but closer analysis suggests that
For the past decade, Sovereign bond yields have been held down by Central Bank funding facilities. But with interest rates now rising as various forms
The “Trump Effect” Donald Trump and the Economy – The first year of the Trump administration has not been dull. Radical domestic and foreign policy
Is there any relationship between credit quality and sporting performance? Previous research by Credit Benchmark has shown a possible link using data from the 2016
Credit Benchmark brings together internal credit risk views from over 40 leading global financial institutions. The contributions are anonymized, aggregated, and published in the form of consensus ratings and aggregate analytics to provide an independent, real-world perspective of credit risk. Risk and investment professionals at banks, insurance companies, asset managers and other financial firms use the data for insights into the unrated, monitoring and alerting within their portfolios, benchmarking, assessing and analyzing trends, and fulfilling regulatory requirements and capital.
