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The Federal Reserve recently voiced concerns about excessive corporate financial leverage - and risk management departments need to take heed.

In a pandemic period when major public company bankruptcies are hitting hard daily, reliance on payment performance and/or financial statement analysis provides a whole new slew of dangers.

Sears Holdings Corporation has closed underperforming stores and cut costs, yet a hedge fund controlled by company CEO Eddie Lampert is now pushing for even more forceful financial restructuring to stave off bankruptcy.

Knowledge of how and when to react to a business defaulting is essential; cutting ties with a customer or supplier too soon could lead to a missed sales opportunity, while being too late can result in financial loss.

The financial fallout from the most recent holiday season may not provide comfort or joy for Conn’s, Inc., a specialty retailer of furniture, mattresses, home appliances and electronics.

CreditRiskMonitor offers up five quick and important facts that you need to know about SAS AB right now to make a more solid business evaluation – or, more advisable, even an alteration of credit extension or a pivot to a peer.

Although the story can be significantly different for every single public company that finds itself faced with bankruptcy, there's one familiar trend: payment data repeatedly misses the risk.

Crowdsourcing finds that hundreds of oil & gas companies continue to deal with financial distress in spite of the stabilization of energy commodity prices.

Pier 1 Imports, Inc.'s management is hyper-focused on turning around the business, but don’t let other scoring methods (including the PAYDEX® score) mislead you.