Category: Credit Research

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE[1])–Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases its Structured Credit 2021 Sector Outlook, which discusses recent structured credit trends, themes for leveraged loans and corporate credit, as well as factors that may affect structured credit performance next year. While we continue to stare down one of the most uncertain periods of the last decade, KBRA believes it is important...

For release at 2:00 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — Federal bank regulatory agencies find that the share and amount of loan commitments with the lowest supervisory ratings rose slightly between 2018 and 2019, according to the Shared National Credit (SNC) Program Review. Total commitments with low ratings remain elevated compared to lows reached during prior periods of strong economic performance. The...

The federal bank regulatory agencies today finalized three rules, which are either identical or substantially similar to interim final rules currently in effect that were issued earlier this year. They include: A final rule that temporarily modifies the community bank leverage ratio, as required by the CARES Act; A final rule that makes more gradual, as intended, the automatic restrictions...

Eurofins announces its Investment Grade credit rating assigned by Moody’s Eurofins Scientific (ERF FP), a global leader in bioanalytical testing, announces today that it has received its first public long-term issuer credit rating by Moody’s Investor Services (“Moody’s”) which assigned an investment grade rating of Baa3 with a stable outlook. Eurofins has been active in the debt capital markets for many years...