Trade tensions are creating new credit challenges. How prepared is your risk strategy?
Michael Crumpler, CEO, Credit Benchmark and Jon Hilsenrath, former Wall St. Journal senior writer and founder of Serpa Pinto Advisory joined Katherine Wolicki, Global Head of Engagement and Outreach, GARP Benchmarking Initiative (GBI) on GARP’s podcast series to examine early warning signs, strategic responses, and innovative risk management approaches needed in today’s volatile trade environment.
This podcast explores the intersection of trade policy and credit risk, offering insights for senior risk managers navigating an increasingly complex global landscape:
- Rising Credit Risk: How tariffs are reshaping the credit risk landscape across key global sectors and what early warning signs risk officers should be tracking.
- Capital Allocation Strategies: How CROs and portfolio managers should reframe risk appetites given significant credit deterioration in vulnerable sectors.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: The role of alternative data and credit consensus insights in scenario planning and stress testing for portfolios exposed to supply chain shocks and regulatory retaliation.
- Central Bank Response: Potential actions the Fed and ECB may take given impacts of tariffs on inflation, Treasury yields, and economic uncertainty.
The original research discussed in this podcast can be found here.
