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New IBM Cognos Analytic Software Offers Banks Faster, Accurate Credit Risk Insights (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT
ORLANDO, Fla.----Cognos, an IBM company and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management, today unveiled new analytic software designed to provide retail banks with complete access to accurate, timely and transparent credit risk information across their loan portfolios.
Cognos ships analytic software for credit risk insight (Finextra)
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:49:17 GMT
Cognos, an IBM (NYSE:IBM) company and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management, today unveiled new analytic software ...
Berkshire's Credit Risk Soars on $37 Billion Bet (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:55:11 GMT
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of protecting against default by Warren Buffett 's AAA rated Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has almost tripled in two months, a sign of just how skittish investors have become amid the global financial crisis.
The Hindu Business Line : No fresh credit risk cover for vendors of US auto giants (The Hindu)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:30:14 GMT
The freeze is applicable only on fresh exposures. Existing customers will not be affected.
Fitch 2009 U.S. Restaurant Outlook: Credit Risk Escalates as Challenges Persist (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:17:00 GMT
CHICAGO----Fitch Ratings expects the negative effects of a declining U.S. economy, growing pressure on consumer discretionary spending, and higher than normal food costs to be further magnified in the restaurant industry during 2009.
ICICI Bank financial position strong: Fitch (The Times of India)
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:00:39 GMT
The agency has affirmed the bank's long-term foreign currency issuer default rating (IDR) at BBB- and short-term foreign currency IDR at F3, indicating relatively low to moderate credit risk.
U.S. Needs to Pump $1.2 Trillion Into Banks, FBR Says (Update3) (Bloomberg)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:17:13 GMT
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may need to spend another $1.2 trillion to recapitalize the eight largest financial institutions and stabilize the markets because private investors won't take the risk, an FBR Capital Markets analyst said.
Financials Need At Least $1 Trillion More, Analyst Says (New York Times)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:22:35 GMT
The U.S. financial system still needs at least $1 trillion to $1.2 trillion of tangible common equity to restore confidence and improve liquidity in the credit markets, according to a note from Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Paul Miller said, according to Reuters.
U.S. Needs to Pump $1.2 Trillion Into Banks, FBR Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:57:58 GMT
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may need to spend as much as $1.2 trillion to stabilize the eight largest financial institutions because private investors are unwilling to take the risk, an FBR Capital Markets analyst said.
Swap Spreads Collapse as Concern of Global Recession Deepens (Bloomberg)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:27:46 GMT
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The spread between the rate to exchange floating for fixed interest payments and U.S. Treasury yields collapsed amid concern a protracted recession will prompt the Federal Reserve to lower borrowing costs again.
29 Jan 2008
Mirror, mirror on the wall...
A new and apparently growing idea is that borrowers can avoid banks and get their loans from family, friends or total strangers. As usual with e-commerce we have a new abbreviation P2P lending.
December 2007
Tekni-Plex Inc
EDF as of 14 Jan 2008: 6.88%
Credit Category: Ca
(not an agency rating)
In the light of recent turmoil in the credit markets, is credit policy being tightened?
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