En este año se aplicó un recorte importante a las Participaciones Federales que garantizan deuda de estados y municipios en México. En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Daniela Brandazza, Senior Director, y Abril Cañizares, Associate, comentan sobre el potencial impacto de dicho recorte en las calificaciones de deuda de los gobiernos locales y regionales (GLRs) mexicanos.

In this CreditMatters TV, corporate ratings analyst, Matthew Kong discusses the Chinese properties sector’s future sales growth given increasing policy stimulus compared to leverage growth, strong price gains in top tier cities and the impact from the increase in the onshore funding channels.

在本集信用视频中，企业评级董事孔磊将讨论中国房地产业未来增长的预期。政府的支持性政策、一二线城市房价上涨和蓬勃发展的境内债务市场对中国开发商的融资结构会产生哪些影响。

Island Sovereigns have had a difficult crisis, but remain rated higher on average than mainland economies, reflecting not least their prosperous and open economies.

Standard & Poor's affirmed Sri Lanka’s 'B+' sovereign rating but revised the outlook to negative from stable. Kyran Curry, Director for Asia-Pacific Sovereign Ratings, discusses the background of this outlook revision.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Chief Credit Officers John Scowcroft and Mark Puccia assess the look and feel of our criteria, our immediate plan to improve its readability, and the long-term goal to systematically make our analytical approach to rating entities more rigorous.

The number of potential upgrades decreased to 247 as of Jan. 29, 2016, from 248 issuers as of Dec. 31, 2015. Potential upgrades have continued to slide since October and the count hasn’t been this low since January 2014. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Gregg Moskowitz explains the key trends and data points.

The first half of February produced continued losses for corporate bonds and equities. But in the second half of the month, markets responded positively to stabilizing oil prices and rising expectations for the Fed to keep interest rates stable. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor’s Senior Director Nick Kraemer reviews the experiences of corporate bond breakouts in February.

A recent Standard & Poor’s article discusses the factors that have led U.S. medical device companies to default over the last 30 years. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Director David Kaplan explains some of the key findings, including the most common drivers of default, what’s behind the largest defaults, and the trend of rising defaults in recent years.

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. Senior Research Assistance Filix Gomez hosts this weekly segment of CreditMatters TV.