Whitepapers
Evolving Opportunities in the SRT Market
This is the first joint update on the Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) market from Credit Benchmark and Oxane Partners. In this update, we examine key market developments and emerging trends across the SRT landscape, and analyze how investors can continue to execute, monitor, and manage SRT investments effectively amidst evolving market dynamics.
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Credit Consensus Ratings and Risk Sharing Portfolios
Risk sharing transactions are a rapidly growing asset class, and have provided attractive returns over the past decade. As corporate credit becomes more unstable, emerging risks – and opportunities – highlight the need for comprehensive credit data for accurate transaction pricing. This paper details how Credit Consensus Ratings and Aggregates provide a detailed map of the credit market risk-reward landscape, including possible anomalies.
Something Better Change: Securities Lending Indemnification is Unsustainable in Its Current Form
In this paper Mark Faulkner reflects on the securities finance industry from a personal perspective and explores some of the challenges associated with Securities Lending Indemnification. The paper aims to explain the confluence of events behind these problems, assess their impact upon the market structure and make some suggestions to help mitigate the issues moving forward.
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”).
