News and Press
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.

Structured Credit Investor: Credit Benchmark Publishes Innovative CRT Report
Credit Benchmark have published a report that introduces a novel approach to portfolio selection and risk assessment in capital relief trades, writes Stelios Papadopoulos for Structured Credit Investor

Credit Benchmark Has Joined The World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community
Credit Benchmark is delighted to announce that it has joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community. The Global Innovators Community is a group of the world’s most promising start-ups and scale-ups that are at the forefront of technological and business model innovation.

Bank Policy Institute: Consistency in Risk Weights for Corporate Exposures Under the Standardized Approach
In recent joint research, the Bank Policy Institute and Credit Benchmark show that using internal ratings in the revised standardized approach for corporate exposures would lead to a limited systematic variation in risk weights.

Financial Times: Data Drill
ESG scores are driving credit differences between oil and gas companies, as noted in the Financial Times’ ‘Energy Source’ newsletter, citing research conducting by Credit Benchmark and Moody’s.

Bank Policy Institute: How Much Will U.S. Businesses Pay for Loans? Translating a Basel Accord Into a U.S. Regulation
A report from the Bank Policy Institute describes how Credit Benchmark data can be a tool in evaluating default risk for loans.

World Economic Forum: Financial Services Study Reveals Emerging Tech-driven Systemic Risks
Accelerated technology adoption in the financial services sector is creating new systemic risks to the global financial system, according to a new report. ‘Beneath the Surface: Technology-driven systemic risks and the continued need for innovation’ explores the relationship between increased technology adoption and the potential shock of cascading risk factors.