The credit quality of an entity is essential information that reflects that entity’s financial health and its ability to meet debt obligations. Credit quality can be expressed as a credit score, but ...

The assessment of default risk is also critical in the valuation of corporate bonds and credit derivatives such as basket-default swaps. There is an important distinction between default risk under ...

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