CREDIT IN PERSPECTIVE

Join our hosts Laurent Birade and James Partridge in this episode of Credit in Perspective as they discuss lessons learned this season including how credit spreads, artificial intelligence, and machine learning have changed the banking industry.

Join our hosts and Moody’s Analytics Managing Director Anna Krayn as they explore more than 100 years of history. Listen to the discussion and learn how Moody’s Analytics, which is part of Moody’s Corporation, became a pillar of credit risk management—and get a review of key acquisitions over the years.

Join our hosts and Moody’s Analytics Senior Director Masha Muzyka for a discussion on accounting standards from a historical perspective. In this episode, our experts examine the origins of Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL), and the future impact of the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) accounting standard.

Join our hosts and Moody’s Analytics Senior Director Chris Henkel as they take a look at how the commercial banking sector has evolved over the past few decades. Our experts discuss how the Basel Accords, the Five Cs of Credit, and other events have been major catalysts for change to the commercial banking landscape.

Join our hosts and Moody’s Analytics Head of Single Obligor Research Dr. Doug Dwyer as they examine the RiskCalc™ EDF™ (Expected Default Frequency) model and the innovations leading to its development. Listen in to hear about the impacts of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines on credit risk assessment.

Join our hosts and Moody’s Analytics Global Head of Quantitative Research Dr. Jing Zhang as they take on modern portfolio theory and the quantification of credit risk. Highlights include a review of Harry Markowitz’s paper “Portfolio Selection” and a discussion about new drivers in credit analytics such as climate risk.

Join our hosts and Moody’s Analytics Deputy Chief Economist Cris deRitis as they dive into the world of economic forecasting, a core component of risk management. Discussion highlights include the importance of accurate forecasting, how to apply intuition to models, and key lessons from the Great Recession.

In this first episode, presenters Laurent Birade and James Partridge explore the history of credit risk using "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" by Peter L. Bernstein to put the current environment of risk management into a historical perspective. Listen in as they discuss key innovations that have built the current credit environment, including the Roman numeral system, the concept of zero, games of chance, and risk aversion.

In this podcast, presented by Moody's Analytics, we'll discuss historical and current credit events that help build a perspective for what is to come next - lessons from the past to guide the future.