Credit Benchmark Launches Credit Risk IQ Featuring Thousands of New Industry-level Risk Reports

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Credit Benchmark, a leading provider of credit risk data and analytics, today launched Credit Risk IQ, a new online portal allowing users to access over 5,000 free monthly industry- and sector-level reports. These reports provide in-depth analyses on evolving macro credit trends to help market participants better identify and manage risk and capital.

Credit Risk IQ allows users to access:

• Credit indices that track credit risk across various industries, sectors and sub sectors
• Credit rating transition matrices that can both track and project credit rating migrations;
• Correlation matrices highlighting the relationship across various industries;
• Credit distributions tracking the ratings of entities within different sectors over time

“We are delighted to launch Credit Risk IQ,” says Michael Crumpler, CEO of Credit Benchmark. “We have built this product in close collaboration with our existing clients and are confident it will fill a much-needed void in the market for differentiated and unbiased views on credit risk across thousands of industries, sectors and geographies. The forward-looking nature of the underlying data that Credit Risk IQ is built on means our analytics are a good indicator of where industry-specific credit risk is heading,” says Mr. Crumpler.

For a demo and more information on the underlying Credit Benchmark dataset, please get in touch here.

About Credit Benchmark

Credit Benchmark is a leading provider of credit risk data and analytics. Its products are derived from contributed risk data from more than 40 financial institutions globally.

These data are aggregated, anonymized, and published twice monthly in the form of unique entity-level Consensus Credit Ratings as well as credit transition matrices, sector correlations and credit indices.

The dataset covers over 105,000 legal entities, 90% of which are not publicly rated.

Credit Benchmark’s insights are trusted by major financial institutions globally who use them to benchmark their own internal credit risk analysis against those of a global peer group and gain accurate credit risk views where none were previously available.

Credit Benchmark was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Bangalore.