Barbora Stepankova

Research Director

Barbora joined Credit Benchmark in 2016. As Research Director, Barbora works in quantitative research and is responsible for product innovation and development. Previously she worked in the economic department of the European Central Bank, and also has experience in consulting from Roland Berger and PwC. Barbora holds Masters Degrees in Economics (University of British Columbia, Canada), Finance (Charles University, Czech Republic) and Operational Research (University of Economics, Czech Republic) and she is currently pursuing a PhD in Finance at Charles University, Czech Republic.

Credit Benchmark brings together internal credit risk views from over 40 leading global financial institutions. The contributions are anonymized, aggregated, and published in the form of consensus ratings and aggregate analytics to provide an independent, real-world perspective of credit risk.
Risk and investment professionals at banks, insurance companies, asset managers and other financial firms use the data for insights into the unrated, monitoring and alerting within their portfolios, benchmarking, assessing and analyzing trends, and fulfilling regulatory requirements and capital.