Explore Crisil, a company of S&P Global

Formerly known as Global Research & Risk Solutions

Credit Underwriting & Assessments

 

 

Enabling swifter decisions and adept credit assessments across the first and second lines of defense

Globally, financial institutions (FI) are grappling with increasing risk complexities and stringent regulatory asks for more robust risk management practices, amidst changing market and industry dynamics.

Our highly competent team of credit specialists helps build, review and strengthen clients’ credit risk underwriting and assessment frameworks across the two lines of defense.

By partnering with us, clients gain access to our subject matter expertise, across a wide range of industries and product portfolios, as well as activities such as financial spreading and credit assessment, garnered through 20+ years of collaboration with global and regional banks.

 

 

 

 

Why choose us

 

 

 

Agile and unmatched
talent pool of
specialists

We have 1,000+ credit analysts and 150+ sector specialists, with in-depth knowledge of credit risk procedures, strong regulatory know-how, good working knowledge of credit platforms/tools, and high analytical acumen

Expertise across
the end-to-end
credit lifecycle

We have more than two decades of experience in working with global and regional financial institutions across the two lines of defense, spanning diverse product portfolios

Best-fit solution
to optimise costs

We provide tailored and flexible operating models, implementing industry best practices, to unlock maximum operational efficiencies and deliver cost savings

 

 

 

10K

Over 10,000 credit memos executed annually, for more than 40 global and regional banking clients

5K

More than 5,000 ratings scorecards updated for different sectors/industries across corporates and financial institutions

150K

Over 150,000 financial spreads prepared for multiple industries globally

 

 

 

 

Our solution components

 

Our credit assessment and underwriting capabilities span multiple industries, geographies and product types, including niche and complex exposures such as securitisation, project finance, leveraged finance, CRE and shipping. We partner with FIs in both the first and second lines of defense, to provide support on the following:

 

Credit Origination and Underwriting

Comprehensive loan origination and underwriting services for financial institutions (FI) enable enhanced pre-screening viability assessment and swifter decisions on client onboarding thus, improving overall risk management capabilities in the first line of defense.

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Credit Assessments

A leading provider of off-the-shelf and bespoke solutions for e2e credit risk assessment and advisory, to help financial institutions strengthen and optimize credit risk practices across the second line of defense.

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Screening and Origination

We leverage our strong pool of SMEs and product/sector specialists to ensure risks are accurately captured and evaluated pre-loan disbursement. Our services include in-depth macroeconomic and industry analysis, target screening research, pre-screening viability analysis of lending transactions, running rating simulations and preparing term sheets.

Financial Spreading

  • Our services on spreading and modelling (historical updates and projections) cover a comprehensive analysis of key financial and business metrics, peer benchmarking, and trend analysis across diverse portfolios (spanning corporates, sovereigns, financial institutions, structured credits, and more). We also specialise in financial modelling (including capital structure, liquidity, scenarios, repayment, and pro-forma calculations) for niche sectors and complex transactions
  • Additionally, our automated spreading accelerator, SMART, enhances model management. For more details on SMART, please click here

Internal Credit Rating

  • We support FIs in internal risk rating scorecard development and maintenance, comprising sampling methodology development, independent credit analysis of identified samples, development of PD/LGD/EAD models (including scorecards) and CECL and regulatory capital models, validation of credit risk models against industry best practices, documentation based on regulatory guidelines, and formulation of credit risk rating frameworks and processes. For more details, please click here
  • We help clients carry out their internal credit rating process, leveraging their own approved scorecards/models
  • We also offer a technology platform for hosting third-party credit rating scorecards/models. For more details, please click here

Credit Risk Assessment Memos/Proposals

  • For the first line of defense, we offer well-crafted underwriting credit memos (for new transactions as well as amendments)/proposals aligned with FIs’ underwriting standards, internal risk appetite and credit policies, enabling swifter approvals from risk and timely deal closures
  • Additionally, we play a pivotal role in strengthening the second line of defense at global banks by providing support in periodic credit risk reviews, involving in-depth analysis of the financial and business standing of borrowers, along with industry review and economic outlook
    • Clients can avail our industry utility, SPARC (Shared Platform for Assessment of Risk of Counterparties), to access our repository of off-the-shelf structured and standardised credit risk reviews (covering more than 1,000 public filers). These largely reflect banks’ low/ medium-risk portfolio and can be used ‘as-is’ for periodic credit risk assessment
    • We provide bespoke solutions for private entities and high-risk portfolios, enabling customised credit risk reviews, as per clients’ requirements
  • We also have a GenAI-powered solution for drafting credit risk assessment reports. For more details, click here

 

 

 

 

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