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.
CDS prices are often cited as a proxy for solvency risk. New research shows some large variations between CDS prices and consensus credit risk data for GSIBs.
Leveraged Loans continue to divide investor opinion. Values declined as part of the High Yield rout earlier this year, but they have been slower to recover. Consensus credit trends suggest that some of the bbb and bbb- CLO issuers may be in for a bumpy ride.
June 23, 2020 — Credit Benchmark are proud to support the Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA), a new association recently formed by a group of
The increasing complexity of global sub-custodial networks means less clarity about where an asset is held – and the credit risk of the legal entity holding it. A new whitepaper by Credit Benchmark maps this interconnectivity and sheds light on hidden potential credit risks within these networks.
Take-up of the UK’s emergency commercial paper scheme aimed at big businesses is accelerating, as reported in The Financial Times’ Lex column, highlighting Credit Benchmark’s role
With its sleek aesthetics, fruit-water dispensers and free beer gimmick, WeWork seemed to perfectly capture the millennial zeitgeist. The co-working company catered to the army
The default risk of companies owned by private-equity firms is 2.5 times that of their public counterparts, according to data collected from banks, insurers and
Download PDF The global economy is in “a synchronized slowdown”, according to the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook report. Global growth for 2019 is expected
Download PDF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published their latest Global Financial Stability Report.[1] According to the report, Corporate Debt Growth between 2018 and
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.
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