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The Desk: Rules and Ratings: Understanding gaps between credit risk data and credit ratings
November 13, 2024
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 Benchmark Launches PortfolioLens™ to Deliver Customized Credit Risk Insights at Scale
Credit Benchmark today announced the launch of PortfolioLens™, its new analytics platform designed to deliver instant, portfolio-level insights on credit exposures and emerging risks – even for unrated and opaque counterparties.
Preqin: US credit default risk ‘set to peak by mid-2024’ amid rate cut expectations
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.
Credit Benchmark says US oil & gas industry has most benign default risk outlook vs. other US sectors, as discussed in 2024 Default Risk Outlook report on 13 US industries
Credit Benchmark says US oil & gas industry has most benign default risk outlook vs. other US sectors.
Reuters: WeWork’s troubles darken outlook for embattled office market
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.
Credit Benchmark’s Consensus Ratings Coverage Universe Hits 100,000 Milestone
London, October 19, 2023 – Credit Benchmark (CB), provider of the world’s only independent, consensus-backed credit risk intelligence, has reached a significant milestone for its
Reuters: Commercial real estate investors risk painful losses in post-COVID world
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.
Credit Benchmark Appoints Michael Crumpler as Chief Executive Officer
London and New York, July 18, 2023 – Credit Benchmark, a global leader in the credit risk data and analytics space, has announced the appointment
