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Research & Whitepapers

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December 7, 2021
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.

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Insights & Research

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January 19, 2022
Containers and Packaging: Environment Concerns Drive Credit Improvements
The Containers and Packaging Sector has boomed during the pandemic, with the side-effect that many consumers are now used to...
January 19, 2022
January 2022 Industry Monitor
Download the January Industry Monitor infographic below. Credit Benchmark have released the end-month industry update for end-December, based on the...
January 18, 2022
January Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Industrials
Credit Benchmark have released the January Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). The CCI is an index of forward-looking credit opinions for...
January 12, 2022
January 2022 Financial Counterpart Monitor
Download the latest Financial Counterpart Monitor below. Financial counterparts had a strong showing in the latest Credit Benchmark credit consensus data. Globally...

Data at a Glance

Insurance Credit Risk
UK Insurance is riskier compared to EU and US
Home Construction: US Credit Outpaces UK
The post-pandemic “race for space” is driving strong demand for housing globally. The improving credit quality of North American Home Construction firms has outstripped their UK counterparts.
Covid and Supply Chain: the Sector Effect
The pandemic has had a significant negative effect on supply chains, and some sectors were impacted more than others. Big nondurable consumer goods saw limited impact, while manufacturing supply chains fared much worse.
COP26: Is Credit Risk Part of the Problem?
Sovereign credit risk shows a clear difference of about 5 notches between the Low and High impact countries on Swiss Re's Climate Economics Index. Corporates show very little difference.
US vs UK Restaurants & Bars
The hospitality industry has been a high profile COVID casualty, with US Restaurants & Bars initially hit harder compared to the UK - but the US group has since bounce backed stronger than the UK
Sector Overview: the Cost of COVID
Airlines and Hotels are two sectors most impacted by the COVID crisis, while Pharmaceuticals have been stable throughout the volatile period.
Sovereign Credit Risk
The reaction of Sovereigns to the start of the pandemic was milder compared to Financials and Corporates.
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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We subscribe to the CRAs and do our own screening, but we find it useful to have alerts about relevant companies and an alternative to the traditional ratings via Credit Benchmark. The data is also useful for plugging informational gaps where no CRA data is available.
- Chief Credit Officer, Political Risk and Trade Credit, Large Global Insurer
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Weighted by our exposures, CB data suggested our risk was nearly twice as much as we had computed. Given what has happened the past year and the provenance of the data from leading global financial institutions, this data made a real impression on me.
- Portfolio Manager, Global Specialty (Re)Insurer
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- SVP, Counterparty Credit Risk, Major International Asset Manager
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- Managing Director, Leading European Bank
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- Lead Risk Management Analyst, Major CCP
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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.
- VP, Major Asset Manager

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In the Press

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December 23, 2021
Financial Times: Data Drill
ESG scores are driving credit differences between oil and gas companies, writes Amanda Chu in the Financial Times' 'Energy Source'...
November 8, 2021
Bank Policy Institute: How Much Will U.S. Businesses Pay for Loans? Translating a Basel Accord Into a U.S. Regulation
In a recent report titled 'How Much Will U.S. Businesses Pay for Loans? Translating a Basel Accord Into a U.S....
October 29, 2021
World Economic Forum: Financial Services Study Reveals Emerging Tech-driven Systemic Risks
Accelerated technology adoption in the financial services sector is creating new systemic risks to the global financial system, according to...
October 7, 2021
Reuters: Will Washington truce stick? Wall St assesses U.S. debt ceiling risk
An apparent truce in the U.S. debt-ceiling standoff in Congress has offered some relief to Wall Street investors on edge about a...
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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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