KBRA Podcasts

By Kroll Bond Rating Agency

KBRA Podcasts cover topical research discussions, industry commentary, and more. As we continue to globally expand, KBRA Podcasts is a go-to source for timely briefings directly from our knowledgeable... more

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The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.

KBRA Podcasts episodes:

October 15, 2020U.S. Economy: Trade and Politics
In this episode, KBRA’s Global Head of Corporate, Financial, and Government Ratings, Bill Cox, opens an interesting conversation with KBRA Chief Strategist Van Hesser and Joan Feldbaum-Vidra, Head of Sovereign Ratings. Feldbaum-Vidra and Hesser take stock of COVID-19 risks and dynamics mid-crisis and whether the pandemic has truly threatened the golden age of globalization, and more. Topics discussed include:
U.S. trade dynamics mirror recessionary and recovery dynamics.
Post-pandemic reset: the U.S. faces a new normal for economic life, including trade.
Mexico may end up as a winner in U.S. geopolitical trade strategy.
U.S. presidential election: a referendum on the Trump experiment.
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19min
September 02, 2020 Bank Compendium Insights: 2Q2020
Senior Directors Ashley Phillips and Brian Ropp of KBRA’s Financial Institutions group take us through the inaugural episode of Bank Compendium Insights, which features a discussion around our latest view of the U.S. banking sector during the current difficult environment due to the coronavirus pandemic. They share observations about our long-term rated banking universe, focusing on key performance and credit metrics, as well as KBRA's expectations for the banking industry as the economic situation plays out over the next several quarters.
Ashley Phillips, who has been an analyst with KBRA for 8 years, is the Maryland office Team Leader and organizes the compendium effort each quarter. Brian Ropp, who recently joined KBRA's team, previously served as CFO of a community bank. His background includes fifteen years as a buy-side analyst where he covered a variety of industries but specifically Banks through the GFC.
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17min
July 30, 2020 Emerging Market Credit Crisis—This Time Is Different
In this episode, Bill Cox, Global Head of Corporate, Financial, and Government Ratings at KBRA speaks with Joan Feldbaum-Vidra, KBRA’s Head of Sovereign Ratings, about emerging market (EM) sovereign credit challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While the crisis is unusual in its breadth across so many EM economies, the impact is highly differentiated. Other topics discussed include how China’s role as well as changes in lender behaviors and growing pandemic-related debt burdens make the COVID-19 economic disruption different than the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s.
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25min
June 30, 2020 Insurance Industry Trends: M&A and Legacy Blocks
In this KBRA Podcast episode, Peter Giacone and Donna Halverstadt of the Insurance ratings team discuss views on a trend in the insurance sector that receives a lot of media attention and is also a key influence on other aspects of the industry. The trend they discuss is mergers and acquisitions and the focus is primarily on how this trend is playing out in the life sector, including what impact the current pandemic could have.
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14min
June 25, 2020 Don’t Go There: Why Negative Rates Cannot Help Now
In this edition of KBRA’s podcast series, Joan Feldbaum-Vidra, Head of Sovereign Ratings at KBRA, speaks with Ethan Heisler, editor-in-chief of The Bank Treasury Newsletter, about the prospects for negative rates in the U.S. and the U.K.
Ethan and Joan discuss how capital markets may be impacted by negative interest rate policy, and consider the plusses and minuses in light of the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic disruption.
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29min
June 15, 2020 Muni Watch with Karen Daly and Cate Long
In the first edition of the Muni Watch Podcast, Karen Daly, Head of Public Finance & Financial Guaranty, welcomes special guest Cate Long, founder of Puerto Rico Clearinghouse and Municipal Bond expert for a discussion on the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, the role of rating agencies, and thoughts on bankruptcy and Puerto Rico.
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37min
May 08, 2020 At Home For More Than a Bank Minute with Ethan Heisler
Ethan Heisler begins his inaugural podcast explaining why it is too early for investors to know how the economic fallout from COVID-19 will impact the U.S. banking industry. The overall environment may be negative for banking, but on the bright side, the industry’s seamless transition to disaster mode has been remarkable. CECL is the main subject of the podcast, as Ethan discusses how we got to CECL, and puts the rule into historical context with other accounting rules and bank regulations going back to the early 1980s.
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25min

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