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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The U.S. economy is booming and near-term prospects have rarely been as strong. In this webinar, Mark Zandi and the Moody’s Analytics team will examine the tailwinds to growth, including fast-approaching herd immunity, massive pent-up demand, excess saving as well as unprecedented monetary and fiscal policy support. We will also review which regions of the U.S. are leading the country’s recovery, which are lagging, and the reasons why. Finally, we’ll examine the threats, including the prospects for uncomfortably high inflation and interest rates, overvalued asset markets, and the uncontrolled pandemic in much of the rest of the world.

Join this webinar to learn about the challenges and best practices in the banking sector.

We will discuss:

• Economic outlook as a driver for risk
• Moody’s Analytics global forecasting model
• Macroeconomic overlay atop standard risk models.
• Scenario-based risk forecasting

In this webinar, we will explore how acute physical risk affects risk parameters for the U.S. and U.K. mortgages using the Moody’s Mortgage Portfolio Analyzer platform. With Monte Carlo simulations, we illustrate the impact of frequency and severity of natural disasters on probability of default in the U.S. We will then discuss the effect of climate change scenarios and location-specific exposure to climate hazards for the U.K. mortgage market.

The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the European outlook for the first half of this year.

With new variants being discovered the need for mass vaccination becomes vital. Vaccinations hold the key for a rebound in consumption and investment in the second half of 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has triggered an extraordinary challenge for different parts of the economy and it is apparent that various sectors were impacted to various degrees. With the vaccination roll out on the horizon, having the right set of data, models and strategies to sufficiently distinguish the risk across industries on an efficient and timely manner is more important than ever.

In this webinar, we will present our approach to forecasting impairment and capital using macroeconomic stress scenarios provided by the European Banking Authority.

join us for the third 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 banking/lending. This webinar will provide expert insight and trend analysis in the age of COVID-19

In this webinar you will find out more about the Moody’s Analytics UK Mortgage Portfolio Analyzer to assess the adverse economic impact of the global pandemic on a representative portfolio of the UK mortgages.

In this session, we will discuss the current and anticipated trends for Canadian household credit conditions based on data from Equifax and Moody's Analytics macro and regional economic forecasts. We'll examine the effect of the ongoing pandemic on consumer spending, debt, originations, and other factors of Canadian household credit under our baseline forecast and stress scenarios.

The challenges of ESG assessment for different types of companies are complex issues to navigate and are now critical considerations, be it for managing future investments or risk management.

Methodologies and granularity of ESG risk assessment are often subject to data constraints. While the ESG scores can be assigned through direct in-depth company assessment, there are cases when only limited company information is available, especially for small and mid-caps. To bridge the ESG disclosure data gap, analytics can be used to build the ESG score estimates.

As we open 2021, we continue to take stock of the unprecedented turmoil in financial markets brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us as we review distinct impacts on the credit risk of both public and private companies and what the recovery path looks like for various sectors and risk rating segments. During this session, we will demonstrate ways in which your current Moody’s Analytics solutions can help you adjust to new developments quickly, and effectively navigate credit conditions throughout this year and beyond.

Join us for the second webinar in our series: Moody’s Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation where we will discuss the outlook for the fintech and student lending and their impact on banking / lending. This webinar will provide expert insight and trend analysis in the age of COVID-19.

We start 2021 with a series of webinars looking at CIS region and its peculiarities. These are delivered in partnership with Moody's Investors Service credit rating agency which operates independently of Moody's Analytics.

Following the release of the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) scenarios for 2021, Mark Zandi and the Moody’s Analytics team discussed the CCAR scenarios in this webinar. The group also considered the stress test scenarios recently released by Prudential Regulatory Authority in the U.K. and European Bank Authority in the European Union.

Please join us to hear from Gega Todua, Economist as he shares the global economic outlook as we steer through the pandemic, with a focus on Nigeria and the surrounding region.

Join us for the kick-off event in our webinar series: Moody’s Analytics & Raymond James in Conversation where we will discuss the outlook for the U.S. economy, policy under the Biden administration and its impact on banking / lending. This webinar will provide expert insight and trend analysis in the age of COVID-19. 

The pandemic will be fading by mid-year and unprecedented monetary accommodation and fiscal support augur well. Yet, there are considerable threats to this optimism and substantial longer-term fallout from the pandemic. In this webinar, we will weigh these cross-currents. Join Mark Zandi and the Moody’s Analytics team for this timely analysis.