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We turn the credit judgement of the world's leading banks into independent consensus intelligence — so risk professionals can see the whole picture, and act with confidence.
We started with a problem the market had learned to live with
Founded in 2013 by Mark Faulkner and Donal Smith, Credit Benchmark set out to fix a problem the financial world had simply learned to live with: too many credit decisions made on partial, out-of-date information, when total visibility was what the moment demanded.
The answer was Credit Consensus — a new way of seeing credit risk, built not on a single “black box” model but on the combined judgement of the institutions closest to the risk. By bringing together the internal credit views of more than 40 of the world’s leading banks, anonymising and aggregating them, we transform fragmented, siloed data into transparent, validated intelligence.
Today that consensus spans over 125,000 obligors across 160 countries — corporates, financials, funds and sovereigns — with more than 90% of the entities we cover unrated by the major agencies. It’s a fuller, more current picture of credit risk, and it’s changing what’s possible in risk management.
Our Mission
To give risk professionals the most complete, current and trusted view of credit risk — by transforming the credit judgement of the world’s leading institutions into independent consensus intelligence.
Our Vision
A financial system where no credit decision is made in the dark — where every risk professional can see the full picture, and act on it in time.
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