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July 8, 2021
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.

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Insights & Research

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September 21, 2021
September 2021 Industry Monitor
Download the September Industry Monitor infographic below. Credit Benchmark have released the end-month industry update for end-August, based on the...
September 20, 2021
Steady Improvement for US, UK Retail: September 2021
The retail sector is enjoying some long-awaited good fortune. According to the latest consensus data, credit risk has improved for...
September 16, 2021
Marine Transportation: Turning the Credit Tide?
The Economist reports that container unit costs have risen 4 to 6 times in the past 18 months while delivery...
September 13, 2021
Fallen Angels and Rising Stars: Shifting Corporate Credit
September brings more corporate credit shuffling across the investment-grade / high-yield threshold. The number of firms that have fallen from investment-grade...

Data at a Glance

Marine Transportation
The steady decline from January 2020 is a noticeably early reaction to the Covid outbreak, pushing credit risk up by 25%
US Electricity
US Electricity: Entities with a CRA rating are typically two notches better than those without a CRA rating
Australian Financials
Australian Financials fared better under Covid and rebounded more strongly compared to Global Financials
US Commercial Real Estate
US commercial real estate : the COVID-19 crisis price drop is strongly correlated with increasing credit risk
The Big Short 2.0
The Big Short 2.0 : dramatic drop in US retail REITs credit quality and no signs of recovery
Nareit Index
Most of the office, retail and industrial REITs in the Nareit index are in IG with several HY exceptions

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- Managing Director, Leading European Bank
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- Head of Research, Scandinavian Asset Manager
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The data helps our analyst team deal with entity identification issues, monitor more efficiently, and make faster underwriting decisions.
- VP, Large Global Trade Credit Insurer
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The data helps with the challenges we face covering corporate and bank subsidiaries, and the insights are beyond what you get from a traditional credit rating.
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July 15, 2021
Financial Times: Data Drill
Credit Benchmark data highlighting the difference in credit quality of Global Coal and Global Oil & Gas companies against Global...
July 13, 2021
Global Investor: Securities Finance Americas Guide 2021
Global Investor Group spoke with Credit Benchmark co-founder Mark Faulkner on peer-to-peer lending for an article in the latest Securities...
June 30, 2021
Investors’ Chronicle: Credit Assessment for Recovery Companies
Credit as an asset class did phenomenally well in the pandemic, writes James Norrington for Investors' Chronicle. With struggling companies...
May 24, 2021
Bloomberg Opinion: Optimism Is Justified. Valuations? Not So Much
Credit Benchmark CCI data on the credit quality of US, UK, and EU Industrial companies has been cited by John...

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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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