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Loss Trends Monthly

Loss Trends Monthly is a new report from Standard & Poor’s Risk Solutions that helps you gain insight in to default and recovery data trends across sectors and regions. The default data included in the Loss Trends Monthly report is based on preliminary dollar estimates from Standard & Poor’s Risk Solutions’ CreditPro® and LossStats® Database.

This month’s report includes Vertis Inc.’s default affecting debt worth $1.6 billion, the largest entering our database this month, which pushes this month’s total default volume to $4.5 billion (see Figure 1 above).



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Bank of China (Hong Kong) strengthens its internal ratings system for financial institutions with the assistance of Standard & Poor's Risk Solutions.
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Credit Assessment Model For Commercial Real Estate Portfolios (Replay of June 17th Webinar)

On June 17th, Suzanne Smith, Managing Director from Standard & Poor’s Risk Solutions presented the methodology used by Standard & Poor’s in implementing an expert-based judgment system for assessing obligor risk for Commercial Real Estate Portfolios.

This presentation included an overview of the expert judgment approach for Commercial Real Estate, the suite of Standard & Poor’s Credit Assessment Templates available, and the implementation and use of Credit Assessment Templates by financial institutions.

To access the replay of this Webinar, go to http://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join, enter the Conference Name: PH2315776 and Passcode: SANDP. To download the presentation slides, please click here.

Podcast

Measuring Project Finance Risk: Standard & Poor’s Credit Assessment Templates And Data Consortium


Project finance is a specialized asset class that continues to grow globally. In this podcast, learn more about our default and recovery model for project finance transactions from Standard & Poor’s managing director of Risk Solutions, Suzanne Smith. In addition, Mark Haydoutov, director of Data Services, discusses our Project Finance Consortium, including its benefits to participants and the key statistics derived from the data.
To listen to this Podcast, please click here.

Related Information:
Webinar Replays
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Internal Risk Rating Systems

Presentation Slides

Articles
Modeling Multi-Period Corporate Default Probability when Hazard Ratios Decay

Training
Recovery Ratings
New York
September 11, 2008
Credit Risk Portfolio Management
Chicago
September 17, 2008
Credit Scoring and Loss Given Default
New York
December 10-12, 2008