Credit Research
Tap directly into comprehensive credit research from Moody's Analytics and our sister company, Moody's Investors Service, and gain detailed insights into our views on credit-related topics.
The credit research provided by Moody’s Analytics includes extensive and detailed coverage on the creditworthiness of consumers, public and private firms, commercial real estate, financial institutions, sovereigns, municipal finance, project finance, and structured finance instruments. This research enables you to assess risk and opportunities associated with your investment, credit, origination, and risk management programs.
Gain current and forward-looking insights
Up-to-date and forward-looking commentary and quantitative insights from Moody's Analytics and from our sister company, Moody's Investors Service, help you stay informed of evolving credit concerns. Our comprehensive financials, statistics, ratios, and forecasts deliver the data behind these analyses in an easy-to-use format.
Stay on top of credit trends
Timely industry research and newsletters spotlight the trends impacting credit, with macroeconomic and cross-discipline perspectives. Default and recovery studies provide insight into how the economic cycle affects loss rates across sectors and regions.
Featured Experts

Jun Chen
A well-recognized researcher in the field; offers many years of experience in the real estate finance industry, and leads research efforts in expanding credit risk analytics to commercial real estate.

Dr. Douglas W. Dwyer
Douglas W. Dwyer leads Corporate Credit Research in Predictive Analytics. This group produces credit risk metrics of small businesses, medium sized enterprises, large corporations, financial institutions, and sovereigns worldwide. The group’s models are used by banks, asset managers, insurance companies, accounting firms and corporations to measure name specific credit risk for a wide variety of purposes. We measure credit risk using information drawn from financial statements, regulatory filings, security prices, derivative contracts, behavioral and payment information. For each asset class, the methodology is developed based on the available information for each obligor. <br><br> Current projects include developing a climate adjusted probability of default and incorporating ESG factors into credit analytics. We also are developing an approach to produces comparable PDs across asset classes that opportunistically uses whatever information is available. <br><br> Prior to working at Moody’s Analytics, Dr. Dwyer was a Principal at William M. Mercer, Inc., in their Human Capital Strategy practice. Dr. Dwyer earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics from Oberlin College.

David Hamilton
Financial economist; recognized expert on credit risk and default research, credit ratings, modeling, analytics and stress-testing; specializes in Asia-Pacific economic, regulatory, and credit risk trends/analysis
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