Uncertainty about the global economy has further clouded our outlook for the business performance of Japanese corporations. Katsuyuki Nakai, Director, explains our view on how their businesses will perform, the credit rating trend, and important aspects of our analytical focus.

En esta edición de CreditMatters TV, Cathy de la Torre, Directora Asociada, and Facundo Chiarello, Director Asociado, comentan acerca del crecimiento y la evolución de las tarjetas de crédito regionales en Argentina.

A recent S&P Global Ratings’ article discusses the impact that Brexit could have on Latin American Corporate Issuers. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Senior Director Luis Martínez explains the potential risks in terms of exchange rate volatility, interest rate hikes and global economic growth.

S&P Global Ratings publicó un artículo reciente sobre el impacto que tendría la salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea sobre los emisores corporativos en América Latina. En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Luis Martínez, Senior Director, explica los riesgos potenciales en términos de volatilidad del tipo de cambio, alzas en tasas de interés y crecimiento económico global.

The outlook revision on Nemak reflects the potential improvement in the company’s operating performance and key credit metrics over the next 12 to 18 months. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Associate Francisco Gutiérrez explains the main factors behind Nemak’s rating action.

In this CreditMatters TV Segment, Michelle James, Communications Manager, and Matthew Albrecht, Senior Director of FI Ratings, discuss the latest update to S&P Global’s Risk Adjusted Capital Framework.

In this CreditMatters TV Segment, Michelle James, Communications Manager, and Matthew Albrecht, Senior Director of FI Ratings, discuss some of the proposed changes in the latest update to S&P Global’s Risk Adjusted Capital Framework.

In this CreditMatters TV Segment, Senior Directors Steve Wilkinson and Anne-Charlotte Pedersen discuss the Request For Comment on proposed changes to our global recovery ratings criteria for corporate issuers to help improve the transparency of our methodology and the consistency of our ratings across regions and business sectors.

An overview of the recently published Corporate Recovery Rating Criteria Update. This CMTV outlines the background, what is changing, the potential impact and how market feedback needs to be given.

In this CreditMatters TV Segment, Larry Witte, Senior Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses overall positive U.S. public finance rating trends in the first quarter of 2016, despite the highest number of state general obligation downgrades since the fourth quarter of 2014.