Global Oil Sector: Credit Trends May 2017Oil and Gas Industry Trends Executive Summary Download the PDF “Oil and Gas Industry Trends” This paper uses bank-sourced data to track recent credit risk trends in the Oil and Gas industry. The data covers 384 legal entities of which 185 do not have

We have published credit data for March, with 12 contributor banks now providing crowd-sourced credit views (CBCs*) on more than 8,200 separate legal entities. Sovereign coverage now includes Government of Brunei Darussalam. Other additions include Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Banca Popolare di Bari, China ZheShang Bank, Cheniere Energy, Mueller Industries, Canada

Introducing the CB Specialist series, a monthly chat with various thought leaders across the Credit Benchmark community. In today’s post, David Carruthers, Head of Research at Credit Benchmark breaks down the basics of the Credit Benchmark Consensus indicator (CBC). The CBC is a 21-category scale explicitly linked to probability of

“Credit risk data is widely available for sovereigns and large corporates, but updates are infrequent and smaller companies are often ignored.” In this series of monthly articles from Risk.net, David Carruthers, head of research at Credit Benchmark, discusses monthly credit risk trends in rated and unrated obligors based on bank-sourced

Transition matrices can provide considerable insight into the likely pattern of losses over various time horizons (see summary below) – providing support for compliance with the CECL and IFRS9 accounting rules that require banks and corporates to estimate potential downgrades over the entire life of a loan. A recent whitepaper published by

The European Central Bank intends to cut the pace of quantitative easing from €80bn to €60bn from this month. This has hit some of Europe’s peripheral bond markets: the spread of benchmark Italian government bonds yields versus Bunds rose above 2% this week, the highest in more than three years.