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• Credit Training

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  • "Full" list of Credit Rating Agencies

• Regulatory Authorities

• Researchers (Academic & Industry)

• Vendors

• Web Resources

Credit Training:

I would like to start a new section, but I'm looking for help from you.  I'd like to list training programs that are available.

• Fitch Training is a world leader in credit training and corporate finance covering banks and financial institutions, insurance and securitization / structured finance (ABS). We train investors, bankers, fixed income, credit risk, fund management and other finance professionals.  Course catalogue.
• Stanford Business School Executive Education: Credit Risk Modeling for Financial Institutions.
• C.I.F.T. total training solutions
• IIR Deutschland GmbH ...denn Wissen entscheidet
• AFC Consultants also offers credit training
• The Credit Academy

Data Sources:

• Bank Holding Company Data (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
• Bloomberg
• Dun and Bradstreet
• www.econdata.net
• Fitch Financial Data
• FRED®, an Economic Time-Series Data Base
• markit
• Motley Fool
• Reuters
• White House Briefing Room

Rating Agencies:

The largest rating agencies and, I believe, the only agencies with a truly global scope are:

• Fitch Ratings,
• Standard and Poor's, and
• Moody's Investors Service.
• The "full" list of credit rating agencies of all the agencies that I could find.

Regulatory Authorities:

As a comprehensive and updated resource on this topic, I recommend Google's Directory of Central Bank sites.

Multi-national-

• Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
• European Union (European Commission)
• European Central Bank

United States-

• European Union (European Commission)
• Comptroller of the Currency
• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
• Federal Reserve Board
• FDIC
• Office of Thrift Supervision

Australia-

• Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority

Canada-

• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

France-

• Banque de France

Germany-

• Bundesbank

Italy-

• Bank of Italy

Japan-

• Bank of Japan
• Financial Supervisory Agency
• Ministry of Finance

Switzerland-

• Swiss National Bank (Swiss Central Bank)
• Swiss Federal Banking Commission

United Kingdom-

• Bank of England
• Financial Services Authority

Researchers (Academic & Industry):

Researchers with DefaultRisk.com "organizing" pages:

Edward I. Altman,   Tomasz R. Bielecki,   Damiano Brigo,   Lea V. Carty,   Pierre Collin-Dufresne,   Didier Cossin,   Sanjiv Ranjan Das,   Gregory R. Duffee,   Darrell Duffie,   Allan C. Eberhart,   Paul Embrechts,   Rüdiger Frey,   Kay Giesecke,   Greg M. Gupton,   Jean Helwege,   John Hull,   Robert A. Jarrow,   Monique Jeanblanc,   David Lando,   Jean-Paul Laurent,   Dilip B. Madan,   Alexander McNeil,   William Perraudin,   Marek Rutkowski,   Philipp J. Schönbucher,   Til Schuermann,   Kenneth Singleton,   Andrea Sironi,   Roger M. Stein,   Dirk Tasche,   Stuart M. Turnbull,   Alan White,   Fan Yu

• The Top Ten most popular researchers on DefaultRisk.com
• The Top Ten most prolific credit researchers on DefaultRisk.com

Researchers who I have not yet "organized":

Viral V. Acharya,   Barbro Back,   Gurdip S. Bakshi,   Jeremy Berkowitz,   Antje Berndt,   Helmut Bester,   Brian L. Betker,   Karan Bhanot,   Peter Bürgisser,   Maria Carapeto,   Peter Carr,   Andreas Charitou,   Ren-raw Chen,   Robert E. Cumby,   Mark H.A. Davis,   Douglas W. Diamond,   Joost Driessen,   Enrico De Giorgi,   Francis X. Diebold,   Ernst Eberlein,   Edwin J. Elton,   Martin D.D. Evans,   Jerome S. Fons,   Hergen Frerichs,   Jon Frye,   Nicolae Bogdan Gârleanu,   Hans Gersbach,   Stuart C. Gilson,   Michael B. Gordy,   Martin J. Gruber,   Ulrich Hege,   Suzan Hol,   Edith S. Hotchkiss,   Patrick Houweling,   Ming Huang,   Jing-Zhi Huang,   Cho-hoi Hui,   Michael Jacobs Jr.,   Gady Jacoby,   Frederick L. Joutz,   Steven Neil Kaplan,   Masaaki Kijima,   Hayne E. Leland,   Filip Lindskog,   Stanley D. Longhofer,   Francis A. Longstaff,   Jose Lopez,   Harry Mamaysky,   Christopher Mann,   Roy Mashal,   Jianping (J. P.) Mei,   Pierre Mella-Barral,   John T. Merrick,   Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova,   Jun Pan,   Lasse Heje Pedersen,   Todd C. Pulvino,   Adriano Rampini,   Hans Rau-Bredow,   Daniel Rösch,   Kasper F. Roszbach,   Tyler Shumway,   Pedro Santa-Clara,   Anthony Saunders,   Frank Schlottmann,   Mark Schroder,   David Shimko,   Hugues E. Pirotte Spéder,   Karin S. Thornburn,   Haluk Unal,   Maria Vassalou,   Wolf Wagner,   Ivo Welch,   Yildiray Yildirim,   Cristiano Zazzara.

• Search for other researchers: Worldwide Directory of Finance Faculty
• See all the researchers represented here in DefaultRisk.com.

Vendors:

• Algorithmics
• Lombard Risk
• C*ATS which was acquired by MKIRisk and later rebranded as Misys-International Banking Systems
• FinCAD (Excel Add-ins)
• Gifford Fong Associates
• FRONT ARENA and Infinity (both now Sungard companies)
• NumeriX
• Quantifi LLC
• RiskMetrics Group
• Kamakura Corp.
• SavvySoft
• Zeta Services Inc..

Web Resources:

• Association for Financial Professionals
• Associazione Italiana Financial Risk Management
• Capital Markets Credit Analysts Society
• Capital Market Risk Advisors, Inc.  a financial advisory firm specializing in risk management
• CDAnalytics.com - Credit Derivatives Consulting and Training by Geoff Chaplin
• Collections World
• Contingency Analysis
• CountryMetrics is a set of tools by Prof. Ephraim Clark
• Risk Publication's Credit magazine
• Credit Derivatives website by Vinod Kothari
• creditex "uniting the global credit derivatives community"
• CreditFlux.com a newsletter for the credit derivatives and CDO markets.
• Credit Policy Institute: a non-profit with global chapters
• Credit Suisse CreditRisk+
• CreditRisk "zine" by the William Margrabe Group (hasn't been updated in years)
• CreditRiskMonitor.com "real time" credit news.
• CreditSights.com Credit news on corporates and emerging markets (subscription based).
• CreditTrade.com - providing transaction, data and information services to the credit markets
• db RiskOffice (formerly Banker's Trust "RAROC 2020")  is now part of Deutsche Bank's prime brokerage service and requires a client login, here.
• E-Risk+ a CRinstitue Credit Risk Firm Specific Tool
• ERisks.com (a subsidiary of Oliver Wyman
• Everling A German language credit rating advisory service
• Ferrier Hodgson an Australian turnaround, insolvency and reconstruction management group
• FirstKnow.It  daily credit checks for US, UK, French & German firms.
• Fons Risk Solutions:  This is Jerome S. Fons' advisory service.
• Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
• Lista de Riscos is a Brazilian risk portal
• Lynn M. LoPucki's Bankruptcy Research Database
• Loan Calculator by IntervalGlobal
• Instituto del Riesgo Financiero: Soluciones, Consultoria, Cursos, Articulos, Referencias.
• International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers
• International Association of Financial Engineers
• International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
• International Treasurer the Journal of Global Treasury and Financial Risk Management
• Metin Kilic an enthusiast with some downloadable spreadsheets
• (PRIMA   ) - Professional Risk Managers' International Association.
• Quantifi LLC the Credit Derivative Specialist - a financial software firm specializing in credit.
• John Mingo: consultant
• Risk Integrated is a consulting and technology company focused on financial institutions.
• RiskLab
• Risk||Latte.com,   a financial engineering boutique doing risk, derivative advisory, and training in Asia.
• RiskTech.com.br O Seu Portal de Tecnologia em Risco
• RiskWorx.com a South African risk systems implementer and consultancy
• The Derivatives 'Zine'
• Securitization.net: Resource for structured finance
• Smith's Research & Ratings Review: weekly comments on the creditworthiness of bond issues
• Wilmott Associates by Paul Wilmott.