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Sanctions have delivered significant financial stress to the Russian government and corporations alike. Overall, many Russian companies have dropped into – or have sunk further down into – the FRISK® score red zone, indicating heightened financial stress and corporate failure risk.

The media and financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve, underreport the proliferation of zombie firms, a frightening reality you must not ignore. Learn how you can use the FRISK® score and other CreditRiskMonitor report features to protect your company from bankruptcy-prone zombies.

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.

The Russia/Ukraine conflict has pushed oil prices above $100 USD per barrel, further impacting the profitability, or lack thereof, of the airline industry. We identify airlines most at risk of bankruptcy.

Companies have been ramping up efforts in nearshoring their purchased goods from Mexico and Canada while keeping other regions steady. This trend indicates supply chains are focused on dual sourcing and seeking alternative suppliers.

Keep your brains about you: if it looks like a zombie, acts like a zombie, and reports like a zombie, it is probably a zombie.

CreditRiskMonitor recently published a High Risk Report on troubled Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. This detailed report will provide five quick and important facts that you need to know about this OEM auto industry supplier.

The COVID-19 pandemic swiftly delivered hundreds of bankruptcy filings in 2020. Here in 2022, geopolitical tensions, supply chain challenges, and tightening credit conditions could lead to a similar devastating outcome.

Avoid the crash: not having a daily risk download like what we provide subscribers with our proprietary FRISK® score, when world events like armed conflict are changing industry every day, is like flying a plane without instruments through a hurricane.

Tick tock. WeWork Inc. carries over $21 billion in debt and reported $5 billion in net losses in the past year. This real-estate giant with more than 700 property locations worldwide is increasingly distressed.

With inflation at a 40-year high and interest rate hikes beginning to be implemented, more and more overleveraged companies with sinking FRISK® scores are in greater danger of bankruptcy in 2022.

In 2021, total liabilities from public company bankruptcies approached $77 billion, delivering formidable material losses to creditors and major disruptions to global supply chains.