Category: In the Press

Oil and gas companies worldwide have raised $171 billion of debt from the loan and bond markets since March after the coronavirus pandemic hit demand for fuel, writes Jacqueline

Recent debt issuance by International Oil Companies (IOCs) could be seen as a muscle-flexing exercise as much as a move to bolster balance sheets, writes

Take-up of the UK’s emergency commercial paper scheme aimed at big businesses is accelerating, as reported in The Financial Times’ Lex column, highlighting Credit Benchmark’s role

Shouldering the burden of spending to limit the damage inflicted by the coronavirus outbreak could put Germany’s triple-A credit rating at risk, writes Dhara Ranasinghe

Economic fallout from the novel coronavirus and collapsing oil prices are sparking steep declines in the $3.4 trillion market of corporate bonds with triple-B credit ratings,

Debt investors are grappling with the worst selloff in the riskiest corner of the corporate debt market in over a decade, writes Lorena Ruibal for

The default risk of companies owned by private-equity firms is 2.5 times that of their public counterparts, according to data collected from banks, insurers and

There are plenty of arguments over whether we have reached the end of the long expansionary cycle in the U.S., and whether the rest of

UK corporate debt is at an all-time high as the risks posed by a traumatic departure from the EU in October peak. Default risk among

Downing Street must add the likelihood of a UK recession to its list of possible scenarios after official figures showed that the economy contracted in