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2025 Default Risk Outlook: G7 + China
Default risk for High Yield Corporates and Financials forecast to rise across all G7 + China economies in 2025 with exception of the US, according to Credit Benchmark’s Default Risk Outlook.
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Another COVID Year: Credit Trends in 2021
2021 was another year dominated by COVID, but will hopefully mark the beginning of the end for the pandemic. This report shows the key credit trends that emerged in 2021 and examines which geographies, industries and sectors proved resilient to the widespread deterioration brought about by COVID in 2020 – and which have a more difficult road ahead.
Global Insurance in an Era of Heightened Risk
After two tumultuous years, the global insurance market has proven its resilience, but challenges of the “new normal” are increasing. A new whitepaper examines the state of global insurance in an era of heightened risk, focusing on regional and sector trends alongside single company examples.
Trade Credit Risk and Supply Chains: The Post-Pandemic Landscape
Supply chains and trade credit are now critical in a post-COVID world. With disruption the new status quo, trade volumes are likely to fluctuate in the coming months. Though technology is helping to create more flexible supply chains. there is a long way to go to repair the damage from COVID. It is more important than ever for businesses to understand the end-to-end credit risk of their supply chains. This whitepaper demonstrates how credit consensus ratings provide part of the solution.
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Post-COVID Trade Credit Risk
Global supply chains were showing signs of strain pre-COVID and now that the world economy is in the process of a full-scale restructuring, the credit implications are wide-ranging and long-term. This whitepaper details some factors reshaping supply chains and presents single company case studies using a combination of Bloomberg supply chain data and Credit Consensus Ratings (“CCRs”).
The Covid Year: Review of Credit and Solvency Trends in 2020
The 2020 pandemic brought various forms of disruption and hardship, and Governments and businesses around the world had to rely on trial and error to find the best response. There have been some high-profile corporate winners – and many losers. This report shows the key credit and solvency trends that emerged in 2020 and provides some pointers towards what we can expect in 2021.
Impairment Trends: Consensus Point-in-Time Curves
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how sensitive banks’ impairment numbers are to changes in the economy. In a new report, we use aggregated PIT PD curves to look at the impact COVID-19 has had on banks’ forecasts of credit risk and impairment.