In this episode, Mike & Jerry react to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal penned by Matt Wirz, looking at how junk loan defaults are beginning to scare investors as inflation and interest rates grow. In the credit world, can risk professionals all afford to continue to look back at past trends to […]

In this episode, Mike & Jerry speak to the tactical advantages gained in financial risk assessment when trade is gathered and exchanged organically between counterparties: clean data that aids both sides in accomplishing some impressive ends, specifically more accurate reads on risk levels within private companies and a better understanding of why repayment to credit […]

In this episode, Mike & Jerry take a deeper look into the recent Chapter 11 filing of Revlon, Inc., and how the market movements of the last several months brought about this longtime cosmetics kingpin’s ultimate reckoning. More importantly: which major public companies also seem primed to fall, and how do you parry bankruptcy danger […]

In this episode, Mike & Jerry have fun being flocked by models — financial risk prediction models, that is. Our guys take a deeper look into predictive versus descriptive scores, within which scenarios they’re best applied when considering bankruptcy, and then explain a unique knowledge advantage afforded exclusively to CreditRiskMonitor subscribers: crowdsourcing.

In this episode, Mike & Jerry introduce SupplyChainMonitor™, a sister product from CreditRiskMonitor that provides a groundbreaking solution to mitigate risk and protect clients’ supply chains from its weakest links. They discuss the origins of SupplyChainMonitor’s development, the ways in which the product is different from the traditional CreditRiskMonitor package, and how with a surge […]

Watch out! Mike & Jerry examine a phenomenon that, more and more, is haunting the portfolios CreditRiskMonitor clients: “zombie” companies, or firms unable to service their interest expenses. Following record-breaking commercial bankruptcies two years ago in the wake of COVID-19, central banks worldwide intervened to accommodate credit markets and suppress borrowing rates, alleviating financing pressures […]

In this episode, Mike & Jerry examine the consequences of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine on global credit and supply chains, suggesting pivots financial risk evaluators can make to reduce exposure.

In their debut episode, Mike Flum (CreditRiskMonitor President & COO) and Jerry Flum (CreditRiskMonitor Chairman & CEO) discuss a sharp rise in non-financial corporate debt worldwide and if such a spike portends a wave of bankruptcies in 2022.