Credit Research Foundation
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
It’s been 16 years since the last major economic downturn – the banking crisis that started in 2007 and was in full impact mode from 2008 through 2010. Since then, we’ve weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, which many experts predicted would lead to a wave of defaults and business closures. During that period, the U.S.
FICO Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
We studied this on three pre-pandemic performance periods (pre-Great Recession 2005-2007, post-Great Recession 2010-2012, and pre-pandemic 2015-2017) as well as two pandemic-era periods (2020-2022 and a one-year period from 2021-2022).
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FICO Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Assume an auto finance portfolio’s current underwriting risk management strategy requires applicants to have an expected 24-month default rate less than 3%. However, in the stressed economy of 2007-9, this would have aligned with a FICO Score cut-off of 720 or higher. Cells are highlighted where the expected default rate is below 3%.
Loomis Sayles Credit Research
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
In our view, QE was successful in two distinct ways: 1) It increased housing affordability and suppressed defaults. Aggregate household mortgage payments plummeted from $600 billion in 2007 to $470 billion in 2022. in 2007 to 3.9% 2) It ensured a lower mortgage burden for a majority of US homeowners for the foreseeable future.
Loomis Sayles Credit Research
JANUARY 9, 2023
High yield spreads generally reflect the premium investors demand for accepting the risk of capital loss due to defaults. This helped pave the road for defaults to reach cycle lows. [i] Furthermore, t he lowest-quality (rated B+ and lower) cohort within the Bloomberg High Yield Index remains at the lowest levels since 2007. [ii].
Loomis Sayles Credit Research
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Leverage appears at manageable levels, defaults are currently low and the credit outlook has weakened only slightly. That was true when the tech bubble burst in the early 2000 s , in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 and in the brief COVID-induced recession of 2020. Pockets of strength.
tillful
MAY 31, 2023
If too many borrowers default on loans around the same time, lenders not only lose a sizable amount of their forecasted profits, but can also lose a portion of the money they loaned out. So, what causes a group of borrowers to default around the same time? As homeowners defaulted across the U.S.
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