J. William Carpenter is an economist who writes financial topics. He is an author of published works for higher education and business clients. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and ...

The severity and uncertainty surrounding Covid-19 globally should compel any credit professional to change existing corporate credit risk management frameworks. For decades, credit risk managers, ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cyber attacks on the private sector are an increasingly important risk in corporate credit analysis, U.S. ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service said on Monday. The threat of ...

While it is too early to gauge the ultimate impact to any specific bond issuer, Julie Utterback, our lead corporate credit analyst for the healthcare sector, expects that any efforts to repeal, ...

PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Only 18 percent of fintechs and financial services organizations believe their credit risk models are accurate at least 75 percent of the time. The finding is ...

If you need to borrow money for your small business, credit risk analysts will evaluate your application. These analysts usually work for banks. Their job is to evaluate loan applications and ...

The loose monetary and fiscal policy put in place by major central banks during the pandemic has driven irrational exuberance in 2021. Studying the last few financial crises has taught us that when ...

Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF is a passively managed fund that tracks the Bloomberg US 5-10 Year Corporate Bond Index. SCHI has a low expense ratio of 0.03% and its ETF wrapper provides a tax ...

Since the financial crisis of 2008, financial services firms have advanced their internal credit risk management capabilities as part of a substantial evolution in risk management among regulators, ...

When Jones Motor Co. Inc. takes on a new broker or shipper, the company checks credit. Period. Joanna Sheffer, credit and collections manager for the 100-year-old carrier, believes regular credit ...