This week’s extra credit takes a look at the economy and how recent trends could impact our muni market. Hear from Beth Ann Bovino our U.S. Chief Economist and Jane Ridley our Local Government Sector Lead. Hosted by Lisa Schroeer.

We’re following up on our previous covered bonds episode with a discussion on the new flavor of environmental- and social-themed covered bonds on the rise. Our host Tom and analysts Corinne Bendersky and Adriano Rossi touch on how the capital market for these particular sustainable bonds is developing, the nature of the collateral backing these bonds, and how we measure the social impact. We also discuss how we capture green and social factors and overall ESG performance in our credit rating criteria. Related Research: Credit FAQ: Are Covered Bonds Becoming More Sustainable? Podcast: Covering New Ground: Covered Bonds Expand Into New Markets

In this episode of Cracking & Fracking, our host Tom Watters and our Transportation and Refining Sector Leads, Rachel Gerrish and Mike Grande, discuss the impending regulation to reduce marine ship sulfur emissions and its implications for oil prices and the shipping and refining industries.

View Full Transcript Episode 11 - Hina Shoeb from Corporate Ratings, Sandeep Chana from Structured Finance and Raam Ratnam our guest from Corporate Ratings gathered to discuss the latest transaction on EI Group and what it means for Stonegate Pub Co. Ltd.

This week Peter Murphy and Lisa Schroeer talk with Bobbi Gajwani, Ken Gacka and Blake Yocom covering Provident Oklahoma Cross Village Project CommonSpirit Health, and Bridgeview, Ill. Multiple credits and multiple notches. Tune in to find out why.

In this video, Tobias Mock and Beata Sperling-Tyler meet to discuss the recent upgrade of German rail group, Deutsche Bahn. This is the first rating change directly linked to ESG factors, in this case the climate change objectives set by the German government.

ESG is everywhere lately, but how does it fit into structured finance? We’ve long considered ESG in our analysis, but when one of the three becomes material enough to a transaction’s ability to make payments, it could be an “ESG credit factor.” Ildi Szilank and Matt Mitchell join us to discuss how relevant ESG credit factors are to structured finance ratings and examples ESG-related events in the sector.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Leveraged Finance, CLOs, and Corporate Credits: what are they? With the aim of providing market participants with further advanced analytical insight into Corporate Credits, CLOs and Leveraged Finance deals, S&P Global is holding regular podcast episodes based on key features we’re seeing in corporate credits and sectors that CLOs are exposed to. Podcast fortnightly on Tuesdays. In today’s episode, Hina Shoeb and Sandeep Chana have a guest speaker from LCD-Taron Wade. Taron Wade heads up LCD’s European Research efforts.