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schedule 60 Mins | 9 September 2021

Finding Alpha and Yield in APAC Fixed Income Markets


In this webinar, Moody's Analytics Predictive Analytics research team will showcase how these modeled spreads can be used as part of your successful relative value and factor strategies across APAC Fixed Income markets. We will take a look at success stories and how this can translate to outperformance in the current APAC economic conditions.

schedule 60 Mins | 11 August 2021

Moody's Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation: I Know What You're Doing This Summer

Join us for the next webinar in our series: Moody’s Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation where we will discuss the outlook for commercial real estate and its impact on banks, credit unions, and non-banks. This webinar will provide expert insight and trend analysis in the age of COVID-19.

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schedule 60 Mins | 5 August 2021

Building an Automated Early Warning Framework Amidst COVID-19

In this webinar, we will showcase key risk indicators that can provide early warning signals of credit deterioration and also illustrate what companies are doing to increase their early warning capabilities with case studies.

schedule 60 Mins | 3 August 2021

Assessing Bank of England’s Climate Risk Scenarios

Global central banks and regulators are increasingly focused on the risks climate change poses to the global financial system.

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schedule 60 Mins | 29 July 2021

Scenario Studio Kitchen: Cooking up a Debt Crisis

This webinar features a live demonstration in Scenario Studio of the recently released Emerging Market Sovereign Debt Crisis Scenario. The session will review the main scenario assumptions, detail the key variables used in its construction, and discuss how to think about debt dynamics in the context of the Moody’s Analytics Global Macroeconomic Model.

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schedule 60 Mins | 28 July 2021

CreditForecast Small Business

Banks, Credit Unions, and Government Entities are looking for solutions to gauge and forecast risk within the small business lending ecosystem. In this webinar, we will provide an overview of our solution - CreditForecast Small Business, a joint effort from Moody’s, Equifax, and the SBFE. This solution provides data and forecasts to drive transparency, benchmark performance, and enhance risk management.

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schedule 60 Mins | 13 July 2021

Incorporando ESG y el impacto climatico en la estrategia del negocio

Los desafíos de la evaluación ESG para diferentes tipos de empresas son cuestiones complejas de abordar y ahora son consideraciones críticas, ya sea para la gestión de inversiones futuras o la gestión de riesgos.

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schedule 60 Mins | 13 July 2021

聚焦台灣系列 新冠肺炎和低利率時代下,如何通過非傳統信用評估的風險預警機制更好管控風險

本次網路研討會將探討新冠肺炎變種的傳播和疫苗的接種情況如何影響了全球經濟的復甦以及改變了市場後續發展的格局。病毒變種導致疫情反覆肆虐全球已經對經濟造成結構性變化,而利率正是影響授信市場的關鍵指標。

schedule 60 Mins | 13 July 2021

気候リスク反映クレジット・PD推計ソリューション、ESG評価・エミッション・プロキシモデルの紹介

日本の皆様に向けて、気候リスク反映クレジット・PD推計ソリューション及びESG評価・エミッション・プロキシモデルのご紹介機会を設けました。東京オフィスのスペシャリスト小柳芳文がご紹介、ご説明させていただきます。ご参加の皆様からのご質問をお受けする時間も設けております。

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schedule 60 Mins | 8 July 2021

Climate Hazard Modelling: Impact of Floods on Credit Risk for the UK Mortgages

In this webinar we will present our methodology for UK mortgages showing the impact of flood events on risk parameters such as PDs, illustrating how to combine climate change scenarios, location-specific risk scores generated by 427 and credit risk models.

schedule 60 Mins | 8 July 2021

Climate Hazard Modelling

Impact of Floods on Credit Risk for the UK Mortgages

In this webinar we will present our methodology for UK mortgages showing the impact of flood events on risk parameters such as PDs, illustrating how to combine climate change scenarios, location-specific risk scores generated by 427 and credit risk models

schedule 60 Mins | 6 July 2021

CIS Economic Outlook

В начале 2021 г. одним из ключевых приоритетов стран постсоветского пространства стало преодоление последствий коронакризиса и выход на темы роста в новых условиях. 

schedule 90 Mins | 29 June 2021

South Africa Series: ESG Assessments and Risk Management

As investors and companies increasingly weigh climate risk into their investment decisions and strategic direction.

Scenario analysis based on scientific research indicates that climate risk will begin to impact global growth in the near future.

Join the next episode of South Africa Series exploring ESG and risk management.

schedule 60 Mins | 24 June 2021

Moody's Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation: The Year Ahead - An Update on U.S. Autos

Join us for the next webinar in our series: Moody’s Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation where we will discuss the outlook for U.S. Autos and its impact on banks, credit unions, non-banks, and auto finance.This webinar will provide expert insight and trend analysis in the age of COVID-19.

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schedule 60 Mins | 23 June 2021

ESG et Changement Climatique: Stimuler des Investissements Plus Durables

les défis de l'évaluation ESG pour différents types d'entreprises sont des questions complexes à parcourir et sont désormais des considérations critiques.

Cela s'applique à la fois à la gestion des investissements futurs et à la gestion des risques.

schedule 60 Mins | 22 June 2021

Are We in A Housing Bubble?

The single-family market is hot, with house prices surging in much of the country. Is the market a bubble? If not, what is driving house prices higher? Are they sustainable, and if not what does it mean for the housing and mortgage markets and the broader economy. In this session, Mark Zandi, Chief Economist; Cris deRitis, Deputy Chief Economist; and Todd Metcalfe, Senior Economist, will discuss the housing market and its impact on the economy.

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schedule 60 Mins | 15 June 2021

Connecting ESG Assessments into the Credit Portfolio Management - APAC

In the webinar we will cover: Global climate change and carbon transition present novel and complex implications for corporate business models, and by extension, those institutions with exposure to the corporate sector. To quantify the effect of a warming world on corporate credit risk, Moody’s Analytics has expanded its proprietary corporate credit model to measure the effects of climate change.

schedule 60 Mins | 1 June 2021

The APAC Economic Outlook

With the new waves of COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific region—including in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan—there is renewed uncertainty regarding how the containment of the virus will impact the economy.

We are hosting a webinar to enable you to hear directly from Dr. Steve Cochrane, Chief APAC Economist at Moody’s Analytics. He and his colleagues will examine the economic outlook for APAC in the context exports and trade, interest rates and market volatility, geopolitical risk, energy prices and other factors.

schedule 60 Mins | 1 June 2021

Regulatory Climate Change Stress Testing Scenarios: Global Perspective

In this webinar, the Moody’s Analytics approach to quantifying chronic physical risk at the country level using a variety of impact channels will be discussed. We will then elaborate on how we calibrate the Moody’s Global Macroeconomic Model to account for the transition risk and its impact on projections of unemployment rates and house prices. Finally, we will provide details regarding our approach to market risk. We will concentrate this discussion on equity prices, foreign exchange rates, and credit default swaps.

schedule 60 Mins | 27 May 2021

Perspectivas Económicas para América Latina: Recuperación Post Pandemia

América Latina está en recuperación y se encamina a un repunte económico en el 2021, después de la profunda contracción causada por la pandemia. Sin embargo, la región enfrenta algunas fragilidades y riesgos tanto internos como externos que podrían afectar la recuperación en el mediano plazo. En este seminario presentamos las perspectivas económicas para la región, destacando los motores detrás de la recuperación, los riesgos presentes, y los factores que podrían desviar a la economía hacia escenarios desfavorables o más positivos.

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schedule 60 Mins | 26 May 2021

Moody's Analytics U.S. Consumer Credit Outlook

In this webinar, experts discuss the current and anticipated trends in household credit conditions based on data from Equifax.

Key topics include:

  • Atypical consumer spending patterns
  • Excessive saving
  • 2021 Consumer Credit Market Outlook
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schedule 60 Mins | 19 May 2021

Moody's Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation - The Year Ahead: An Update on Mortgages

Join us for the 4th webinar in our series: Moody’s Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation where we will discuss the outlook for mortgages and their impact on banks, credit unions, non-banks, and mortgage lending. This webinar will provide expert insight and trend analysis in the age of COVID-19.

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schedule 60 Mins | 18 May 2021

Climate change and the Corporate sector: Enhancing credit analytics to account for physical and transition risks

Global climate change and carbon transition present novel and complex implications for corporate business models, and by extension, those institutions with exposure to the corporate sector. To quantify the effect of a warming world on corporate credit risk, Moody’s Analytics has expanded its proprietary corporate credit model to measure the effects of climate change.

schedule 60 Mins | 13 May 2021

Data Buffet Training

Accessing timely information on changing economic conditions is critical in today’s environment. In this session, we will provide training on how to get started using the Data Buffet ® platform, which hosts Moody’s Analytics comprehensive repository of economic data and forecasts. Users will learn how to find, manipulate and automate the delivery of economic data, including ways to integrate data directly into their models, systems and workflows.

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