European credit risk is diverging across countries and sectors. Credit Benchmark consensus data reveals 2026 default trends.

Italian credit outlook 2026: corporates outperform global peers, but High Yield industrials and southern regions show rising stress.

Global credit risk is rising across industries. Discover key divergences in financials, data centers, consumer sectors, and what to expect next.

How Middle East disruption is driving second-order credit risks across petrochemicals, plastics and downstream industries — from packaging to aerospace.

Consensus PD data shows Canadian credit risk rising but stabilising — with tariff stress hitting consumer and industrial sectors hardest, and HY deteriorating far faster than IG across provinces.

The Middle East conflict is once again exposing the fragility of global supply chains. As with Covid and Ukraine, the consequences are unlikely to be immediate – but they will spread across sectors in ways that are difficult to predict.

The energy shock of 2026 could become a bigger problem for credit markets than the shock of 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Equity markets adapted quickly to US tariffs, but Credit Benchmark consensus data shows material and uneven shifts in global default risk.

Across hundreds of conversations with banks, insurers, asset managers, and other non-bank financial institutions, one theme dominates: credit risk management is under sustained pressure.

This 10-year analysis highlights how structural shifts in global trade, monetary policy, and capital flows have reshaped credit quality.