In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor’s Senior Director Daniela Brandazza presents a cross-regional perspective on the impact of depressed oil prices on local and regional governments (LRGs) in different regions where oil and gas revenues contribute significantly to their operating revenues and could harm their budgets in the coming years.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Maxime Puget discusses the credit implications for EU sugar producers from the European market deregulation in October 2017.

In this CreditMatters TV, Asia-Pacific Chief Economist Paul Gruenwald explains why he is still positive on the region’s growth prospects and what aspects of China’s role and responses from other Asia-Pacific countries to watch out for.

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. Analyst Patrick Stockdale hosts this weekly segment of CreditMatters TV.

After a dismal start to the year, corporate bonds enjoyed renewed demand in March amid support from the European Central Bank and the Fed, giving them one of their best monthly performances ever. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor’s Senior Director Nick Kraemer summarizes the experiences of various corporate bond breakouts last month.

A recent Standard & Poor’s article discusses the effect that the tightening in credit conditions and debt capital markets could have on Mexico’s nonbank financial institutions. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Director Gabriela Langarica explains how these entities would likely adjust their funding structures to deal with the current cloudy outlook.

Standard & Poor’s publicó un artículo sobre el impacto que tendría la contracción de las condiciones de crédito y de los mercados de capitales de deuda sobre las instituciones no bancarias en México. En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Gabriela Langarica, Director, explica cómo adaptarían las entidades sus estructuras de fondeo para hacer frente al sombrío panorama.

Die Kommunalfinanzierung hat sich in den letzten Jahren verändert. In dieser Ausgabe von CreditMatters TV erläutert Alois Strasser, Kreditanalyst bei Standard & Poor‘s Ratings Services die Finanzierungsoptionen deutscher Kommunen und beschreibt aktuelle Trends.

Nordic P/C sectors generally produce strong profits, whereas the life sectors battle the effects of low interest rates. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services Associate Director Anna Glennmar discusses recent trends and forecasts for the Nordic insurance sectors.

We maintained 794 public finance ratings in Florida as of March 25, 2016. About 91% of the ratings fall in the ‘A’ category or higher, and 44% are in the high investment grade category (‘AA’) or higher. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Senior Director Larry Witte discusses the number of upgrades and downgrades in the state during 2015 and so far in 2016, defaults, and what could lie ahead.