Richard Sharp

Head of Analytics

Richard joined Credit Benchmark in November 2019 as a Credit Research Specialist. Prior to this he worked at Barclays, most recently as Head of Wholesale Credit Risk Modelling for the Corporate and Investment Bank and as a Quantitative Developer for the Credit Trading desk. Previously to his role at Barclays he worked at BNP Paribas as a Credit Trading Desk Quantitative Developer. Richard holds a PhD in Computational Statistics and a Degree in Mathematics & Statistics from Bath University.

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.