Risk.Net: April Credit Data Review


“If Britain is a nation of shopkeepers, it is not presently a happy one. The UK’s looming exit from the European Union has been widely blamed for damaging confidence among employers, which has had the knock on effect of damping wage growth and, in turn, eroding consumer confidence. The rise in import costs stemming from the collapse in sterling that followed the vote certainly hasn’t helped.”

In this series of monthly articles from Risk.net, David Carruthers, head of research at Credit Benchmark, discusses UK retailers’ credit woes amongst other global credit industry trends.

Read the full article here or in the April edition of Risk Magazine.

Sovereign Bond Risk Management

In the current low yield environment, many Sovereign bonds issued by different countries are priced at similar levels. However, this Read more

Introduction For Credit Portfolio Managers

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Sovereign Default Risk In Developing Economies

This paper examines the use cases for Credit Benchmark’s Consensus Probabilities of Default (Consensus PDs), in the context of more Read more

Impact Of BCBS Proposals On IRB Banks

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision recently published wide-reaching proposals for reducing variation in Credit Risk Weighted Assets, with a Read more


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