We recently took actions on U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies AbbVie Inc. and Abbott Laboratories. AbbVie will acquire Stemcentrx Inc. for $5.8 billion while Abbott plans to acquire medical device maker St. Jude Medical for roughly $25 billion. In this video, Director David Peknay explains how these deals could pan out.

S&P Global Ratings publicó un artículo sobre la titulización como herramienta alterna de fuente de fondeo en Centroamérica. En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Álvaro Rangel, Director, y Humberto Chávez, Asociado, mencionan los factores económicos y las actuales condiciones financieras que favorecerían el arraigo del mercado de titulización en la región.

The U.S. distress ratio decreased to 21.3% in March, its first monthly decline in two years. Commodities spurred the drop. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Gregg Moskowitz explains the key trends and data points.

Standard & Poor's Global Fixed Income Research team posts a monthly regional corporate issuer ratings distribution report that analyzes the most recent quarter’s data. This month, we highlight the other developed region (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada), which has seen an increase in the number of rated issuers, to 630 as of Dec. 31, 2015, from 624 for the previous quarter.

Standard & Poor’s publicó su más reciente reporte sobre el desempeño general de los instrumentos respaldados con créditos hipotecarios (RMBS) mexicanos. En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Álvaro Rangel, Director, y Antonio Zellek, Asociado, discuten tanto los principales participantes de RMBS en el mercado como los potenciales retos por venir.

A recent Standard & Poor’s article discusses how banks’ asset quality could fare amid a protracted deleveraging cycle. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Senior Director Sergio Garibian and Director Edgard Dias explain our default expectations for 2016 and 2017, banks’ reactions to the current economic environment, and the state of their capitalization.

In this first edition of Capital Markets View, Chris Porter, Head of Loan, Recovery & CLO Business Development, EMEA and Taron Wade, Director in the corporate research team, discuss the impact of the ECB’s bond buying program on corporate bond and loan issuance in Europe.

Covering noteworthy research produced by S&P analysts in the region, "Latin America Monday Morning RoundUp" provides investors with a quick credit overview to start their week. Director Alvaro Rangel hosts this weekly segment of CreditMatters TV.

In this segment, Senior Director Diane Shand discusses the trends shaping these industries and reviews the rating actions we recently took on ATI Holdings Acquisition, Darden Restaurants, Everest Holdings, Joy Global, KeHe Distributors, Logan’s Roadhouse, North American Lifting Holdings, PepsiCo, and Performance Sports Group.

Shareholders of multilateral lending institutions (MLIs) are urging MLIs to step up their activities over the next few years to maximize their mandates. S&P estimates that MLIs can accommodate an additional $1trn of credit exposures, on aggregate, based on its 19 ratings as of mid-March.