The Federal Reserve recently voiced concerns about excessive corporate financial leverage - and risk management departments need to take heed.
The FRISK® score is a game-changing tool that combines several key inputs to assess bankruptcy risk. Here’s how credit manager crowdsourcing play a role.
Business at casinos and resorts has picked up following an easing of travel restrictions after COVID-19, yet operators worldwide continue to be tested by steep fixed cost structures and debt-loaded balance sheets.
The energy sector is slowly working its way back from the severe demand decline in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Schlumberger N.V. and Seadrill Limited, at different ends of the risk spectrum, are prime examples that underscore the effectiveness of the FRISK® score in keeping an everyday watch on bankruptcy.
The coronavirus has reduced air travel across key channels worldwide. Equity markets are souring on airliners, especially those that already carry excessive debt and are strapped for cash.
Just like tariffs, supplier financial risk has become an important category to monitor by company procurement departments. If this isn't on your radar today, it should be.
The FRISK® score is a game-changing tool that combines several key inputs to assess bankruptcy risk. Here’s how financial ratios play a role.
With inflation running hot, the U.S. Federal Reserve has embarked on a rate hike agenda. Financially weak companies with material near-term maturities are struggling and, in some cases, bankruptcy could be imminent.
Public company bankruptcies soared in 2020, and filings continue to roll in as fallout from COVID-19. Here are five of the most notable Chapter 11 cases we've seen so far in 2021, and another five companies we feel are in big-time danger.