In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses financial institutions as a driving force behind potential downgrades.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses potential upgrades growth.

Despite the market volatility in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote in late June, U.S. corporate bonds quickly rebounded in July, showing strong, positive returns for all rating categories. In fact, the lowest rated bonds have been recovering quickly in the last five months, S&P Global Ratings' Senior Director Nick Kraemer summarizes the experiences of various corporate bond breakouts in July.

Des taux d’intérêt bas, voire négatifs affectent les ratios de solvabilité et le potentiel de résultats futurs des assureurs en Europe. Dans ce CreditMatters TV, Lotfi Elbarhdadi, Directeur Senior au sein du département Assurances de S&P Global Ratings discute de l’impact de l’environnement actuel sur les bilans des assureurs et de nos anticipations et tests de sensibilité en matière de qualité de crédit des portefeuilles obligataires des assureurs.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Larry Witte, Senior Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the recently-released default and rating-transition study for the utility sector and U.S. public finance. The utility sector has seen its ratings consistently improve for the last 30 years.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Christine Dalton and Jing Xie, both Directors of Non-Traditional Asset Securitization Ratings, discuss the newly-published criteria on rating North America Railcar Lease-Backed Securitizations. In general, the new criteria provide more transparency and add a few refinements to our methodologies.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Daniel Hu, of the U.S. Structured Credit Group, discusses recent CLO developments, including the increase in US corporate speculative grade defaults and downgrades within the first half of 2016.

Record-low, even negative, interest rates weigh on the capital and earnings of insurers in Western Europe. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Lotfi Elbarhdadi, Senior Director within our Insurance Ratings team discusses this, plus how we expect insurers to maintain strong credit quality in their bond portfolios and how stressing down the credit quality of their bond portfolios could lead to greater pressure on capital and potentially on ratings.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses ratings actions in Emerging Markets.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the decline of the distress ratio.