Follow:
The global construction industry is facing renewed challenges: just as the COVID-driven labour and materials shortages showed signs of easing, the Ukraine war is hitting the industry in two specific areas: steel and glass. But not all firms are affected equally – this report analyses credit improvement in US Construction & Materials companies.
Flexible-office operators providing short-term leases suffered more during the pandemic than traditional office lessors. However, a new hybrid working model is seeing demand for flexible, short-term offices and meeting rooms increase once more. This report analyses the credit performance of US Industrial & Office REITs against global trends.
The “race for space” is driving up land prices while supply chain issues are pushing up the cost of newbuilds. Cities are slowly returning to some form of normality but existing offices are still operating under capacity and new offices are struggling to find tenants. This report analyses the credit profile of global Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) against global Financials and Corporates.
In 2011, FTSE350 boards were 91% male – since then, a target of 33% average female representation has been achieved. Corporate diversity has been proven to improve performance, and consensus credit data shows that firms with more women on their board are also a better credit risk. This report analyses credit performance for companies that do and do not meet the 33% target.
Credit Benchmark is delighted to announce that it has joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community. The Global Innovators Community is a group of the world’s most promising start-ups and scale-ups that are at the forefront of technological and business model innovation.
Credit Benchmark have released the February 2022 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). February marked another month of positive readings across the board, with UK firms returning to credit health, the US retaining long-term strength, and EU firms enjoying a more modest stretch of positivity.
Credit Benchmark have released the latest end-month industry update, based on the final and complete set of the contributed credit risk estimates from 40+ global financial institutions.
The Financial Counterpart Monitor from Credit Benchmark provides a unique analysis of the changing creditworthiness of financial institutions.
2021 was another year dominated by COVID, but will hopefully mark the beginning of the end for the pandemic. This report shows the key credit trends that emerged in 2021 and examines which geographies, industries and sectors proved resilient to the widespread deterioration brought about by COVID in 2020 – and which have a more difficult road ahead.
The Containers and Packaging Sector has boomed during the pandemic, but increasing legislation around plastic packaging will require investment from producers. This analysis looks at pre- and post-COVID credit trends for the Europe & US sectors, plus single company credit risk examples for a number of leading producers.
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.
Please complete the form below to arrange a demo.
