Amidst Brexit Uncertainty, Default Risk Rises: Credit Benchmark Analysis Referenced in Barron’s Article


“The U.K. is due to leave the European Union in less than a year, but hasn’t agreed on just how do it. And that could be creating more risk for companies based in the U.K.”

“The uncertainty around Brexit might already be taking a toll. Since the vote to leave the E.U. in June 2016, confidence in the credit of large U.K. corporations has been deteriorating, according to Credit Benchmark, a financial data analytics company that tracks banks’ views of credit risk.”

Barron’s references Credit Benchmark analysis in an article on the credit risk of UK companies amidst Brexit.

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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.