Loss Given Default (LGD), often the term used to refer to an investment’s ‘loss severity’, estimates the portion of an exposure (bond or loan equivalent) that will likely not be recovered in the event of default. When it comes to estimating the LGD of financial transactions, various techniques can be applied. In this blog, we discuss three methods: (1) a qualitative scorecard a...
READThis is the third in a series of three blogs on risk trends. In our first blog , we analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the probability of default (PD) of non-financial corporates based in the Middle East, Africa, India, Turkey, and other emerging economies in Europe and Asia. We saw that the average PD of our study sample, based on year-end 2020 financial statement...
READThis is the second in a series of three blogs on risk trends. In our first blog , we analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the probability of default (PD) of non-financial corporates based in the Middle East, Africa, India, Turkey, and other emerging economies in Europe and Asia. We saw that the average PD of our study sample, based on year-end 2020 financial statemen...
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