Credit Benchmark

Credit Benchmark is a privately owned financial data analytics company. It aggregates and anonymizes credit risk estimates from market participants and offers insights into unrated sovereigns, funds and public and private companies and subsidiaries. It also operates a security platform, a secure hosting platform, and a data transmission hosting platform for financial services contributors. The company is headquartered in London, UK with offices in New York City.[3]

Credit Benchmark Limited
TypePrivate
IndustryFinancial
Founded2012
FounderMark Faulkner, Donal Smith
HeadquartersLondon, UK,
London
,
United Kingdom
Number of locations
2 offices in 2 countries [1]
Area served
Global
Key people
Donal Smith (Executive Chairman), Mark Faulkner, David Carruthers, Joshua Jian, Nick Pastoressa [2]
Websitecreditbenchmark.com

Credit Benchmark was selected in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Fintech50 awards and selected for Fintech50 Hall of Fame in 2018.[4][5][6]

History

Credit Benchmark was founded in 2012. It completed a $7m Series A funding round in July 2014, led by Index Ventures,[7] a $20m Series B funding round in July 2015, led by Balderton Capital and a $7m funding round in 2018 lead by Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Communitas Capital and a group of private investors.[8]

Services and products

Having grown rapidly since publishing its first credit risk views in 2015, Credit Benchmark is the first financial data company to provide consensus credit risk estimates on a global range of corporates, sovereigns, financial institutions, and funds. The company draws its credit risk insights from a contributed data model that harnesses the collective intelligence of the world's leading financial institutions. Now receiving contributed credit risk and probability of default data from a collection more than 30 of the world's top financial institutions – a list that includes all of the largest banks in North America and the UK – Credit Benchmark is now publishing credit risk views on over 30,000 counterparties.

References
  1. "Office Locations".
  2. http://creditbenchmark.com/team
  3. "Credit Benchmark Ltd - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  4. "The FinTech50 2015". The Fintech50. January 2015.
  5. "The FinTech50 2015". TechCityInsider. 2015-01-30. Archived from the original on 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  6. https://www.creditbenchmark.com/credit-benchmark-promoted-to-fintech50-hall-of-fame/
  7. "Index Leads $7m Round in Banking Benchmark Startup Credit Benchmark". Techcrunch. 2014-07-09. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  8. https://www.globalinvestorgroup.com/articles/3691084/ex-goldman-banker-michael-sherwood-invests-in-credit-benchmark
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