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Bob Durante is a Senior Director in Global  Risk Services for S&P Global  Market Intelligence.  In his role, Bob is responsible for managing client service engagements, providing  analytical thought leadership, and helping  clients measure and manage their credit risk.Full Bio
Apr 2022
Blog

Top 10 States with the Highest School District Credit Quality

S&P Global Market Intelligence has identified the ten states with the strongest average local school district credit scores. Leveraging S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Public Finance Automated Scoring Tool (PFAST), we generated credit scores for more than 9,000 school districts nationwide. When the average school district credit scores were aggregated by state, these 10 states...

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Sep 2021
Blog

An investment management firm streamlines municipal surveillance and climat

This firm oversees a suite of U.S. Public Finance mutual funds with $950 million assets under management. Growth in assets put strong pressure on the credit team for new investment originations and surveillance for existing holdings. Their credit models were not re-calibrated in several years, leading to inefficient manual overrides for new investments. For surveillance, the da...

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Sep 2021
Blog

Wealth management team gains efficiencies using tool to manage U.S. municip

This financial institution (FI) manages a portfolio of thousands of Public Finance issuers for its wealth management clients. The FI’s credit risk team conducts an in-depth credit analysis at origination and annual review on every issuer as part of the bank’s credit risk surveillance process. Additionally, the credit risk team shares these credit analyses with the FI’s traders,...

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