Bloomberg’s Zane Van Dusen speaks to The Desk on the value of alternative sources of credit risk data beyond traditional credit ratings. In the interview, Zane highlights the powerful utility of Credit Benchmark’s Credit Consensus Ratings and descriptive analytics for assessing private credit risk.

Credit default risk in the US is set to peak by mid-2024 before beginning to decline in most sectors, with leveraged loans showing the highest projected default rate compared to 12 other US sectors, writes William Bennett-Lynch and Grant Murgatroyd for Preqin, citing Credit Benchmark’s 2024 Default Risk Outlook.

Global office vacancies are surging to all-time highs and expected to climb, causing further troubles for co-working titan WeWork and darkening the outlook for the world’s largest business hubs, writes Sinead Cruise for Reuters, citing research from Credit Benchmark.

Commercial real estate investors and lenders are facing mounting losses if societal habits have changed for good in a post-COVID world, writes Sinead Cruise, Lucy Raitano and Lewis Jackson for Reuters, citing research from Credit Benchmark.

Though credit correlations have become more positive after the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been dropping since late 2021. Nevertheless, challenges in achieving portfolio diversification are much more acute in the post-Covid period, writes Stelios Papadopoulos for Structured Credit Investor,

U.S. market participants, already facing tough requirements, may find some relief, writes John Hintze at Global Association of Risk Professionals, citing research from Credit Benchmark.

Nearly 40% of sponsors have significantly lower credit ratings than their pension schemes, which increases the likelihood of those funds being forced to rely on asset sales in the liability-driven investment (LDI) crisis, writes Stephanie Baxter at Professional Pensions, citing research from Credit Benchmark.

Trading costs for the European buy-side could be set to hike up by up to €40 billion due to new securities lending regulation, writes Annabel Smith at The Trade, citing research from Credit Benchmark.

Securities lending indemnification is mispriced, subsidised by the agent providers and not all it’s cracked up to be as a risk mitigant, according to Credit Benchmark’s co-founder Mark Faulkner. He talks to Bob Currie of Securities Finance Times about how to reset the economics of the agency lending market.