Fixed Interests

Ed Parker, Head of Fitch’s EMEA Sovereign Ratings, and Tony Stringer, a Managing Director in the Sovereigns Group, discuss the risks facing emerging and frontier markets from Fed tapering its quantitative easing programme and rising US bond yields.

Shelly Shetty, Managing Director, Americas Sovereigns, and Richard Francis, Senior Director & Primary Analyst on Colombia, discuss Colombia’s economy, the recently unveiled tax reform, and key factors to resolve the country’s negative outlook.

Jan Friederich, Head of Middle East & Africa Sovereigns and Krisjanis Krustins, Director covering GCC sovereign ratings, discuss GCC ratings in light of higher oil prices, political developments and reform announcements.

In this podcast, Shelly Shetty, Managing Director in the Sovereigns group, and Charles Seville, Senior Director in the Sovereign group, discuss what the Biden administration means for U.S. economic policy and the U.S. sovereign rating outlook.

Cote d’Ivoire recently became the first Sub-Saharan African sovereign to access international markets since the start of the pandemic crisis. Jan Friederich, Head of Middle East & Africa Sovereign Ratings, and James McCormack, Global Head of Sovereigns, discuss SSA’s growth prospects for 2021 and the financing pressures in the region.

In the latest Fixed Interests, Shelly Shetty, Managing Director of Sovereigns, and Todd Martinez, Director of Sovereigns, discuss the future economic prospects and challenges in Argentina and Ecuador following their respective debt restructurings in September. They compare and contrast the two restructurings and examine Fitch’s upgrade of Argentina’s ratings to CCC and Ecuador to B- with stable outlook, and the risk factors to monitor in these countries in 2021.

Jan Friederich, Head of Middle East & Africa Sovereign Rating, and Mahmoud Harb, Director, discuss the rationale for the recent downgrade of Morocco’s ratings to BB+ with Stable Outlook, the pandemic impact and prospects for the country.

Amidst the global pandemic, Korea is outperforming its peers as a result of virus containment and rebounding exports. Stephen Schwartz and Jeremy Zook of APAC Sovereign Ratings discuss Korea’s economic and trade outlook, policies, and key risks.

In this latest podcast, Shelly Shetty, Managing Director of Sovereigns, and Carlos Morales, Director of Latin America Sovereigns, discuss sovereign trends in Central America. They delve into the challenges Central America are facing including fiscal pressures, headwinds from the U.S. and the global recession, spread of the coronavirus, downgrades and Negative outlooks ratings, and more. Find out which countries can be more resilient and what’s ahead for the region.