Author: Dr. Oliver Everling

2021 Securitization Awards. Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), a global full-service rating agency, was named “Securitization Rating Agency of the Year” by GlobalCapital at its U.S. Securitization Awards 2021. “KBRA was founded in 2010 to set a standard of excellence and integrity, and we have been loyal to this notion since then,” Eric Thompson, Global…

URA Research GmbH is once again coming up with new insights into bonds. After reviewing and analyzing the financial reports published in 2021, the URA ratings for 13 bonds were confirmed. For 2 bonds (FC Schalke 04 III and Katjes III) the assessment has deteriorated. The 4th bond from Schalke 04 and the 1st bond…

In its 2021 banking study, the independent Swiss credit research institute Independent Credit View AG (I-CV) examined the global banking sector. A universe of 47 credit institutions in 16 countries – including the D-A-CH region – was scrutinized using a comprehensive analysis with a stress test. The good news is that the major international banks…

Who secures the Aaa of EIB. Liberals are not exactly popular among bankers, as they stand for competition and a market economy, where many bankers want state protection and privileges. This makes the award for Dr. Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) as Banker of the Year, particularly noteworthy. The laudation from…

Mistreating workers is not as important as mistreating animals. Consumers play an active role in the application of ESG criteria, i.e. Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance data that refers to metrics related to intangible assets within the enterprise. A survey throws a dubious light on the values of American and German consumers. According to a…

Auditors have been making double-digit million losses for years. At Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (EY) in Germany, “equity” is on the assets side, namely as a “deficit not covered by equity” in the amount of € 62,715,000. The provisions, liabilities, deferred income as well as deferred taxes and fiduciary obligations exceed the company’s assets…

Keynote of Prof. Dr. Joachim Wuermeling, Deutsche Bundesbank, at NPL Forum in Frankfurt am Main. “NPL dismantling” provides one of the keywords for the speech of Prof. Dr. Joachim Wuermeling, Member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. In his keynote at the Frankfurt School’s NPL Forum he widens the view and takes a look…

Berlin network of politicians, raters and auditors. “Wirecard illusion factory only conceivable through political network”, is a quote from the Cicero, the German magazine for political culture. The members of the committee of inquiry have an unequivocal answer to this. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sees Finance Minister Olaf Scholz at the center of the…

Artec technologies AG (ISIN DE0005209589) is once again awarded an eligibility status for central banks by the Deutsche Bundesbank as part of the current creditworthiness analysis. “The credit rating is comparable to an investment grade rating from Standard & Poor’s according to the S&P’s rating scale, the credit rating for artec has been raised from…

In May 2021, the US Consumer Price Index rose 5% year-on-year (after 4.2% in April 2021). “Projected over the year,” says Dr. Thorsten Polleit, Chief Economist of Degussa Goldhandel GmbH in Frankfurt am Main, “the monthly increase was 10.1%.” The price drivers were petrol (+ 2.1% compared to the previous month) and used cars (+…

Are the French afraid of assuming losses from the German EY? After more than two decades at KPMG and half a decade at EY, Yannick de Kerhor left EY to set up a new company, Paris-based EKEM Partners. The new consultancy will team up with EOS Deal Advisory, the London firm run by two former…

Tesco and other UK grocers are affected. On June 3, 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled that the provisions in EU law relating to comparability between two different roles based in different establishments, but within one organisation, do apply directly to private businesses in the UK and can be advanced…

G7 Finance Ministers’ communiqué will most likely not bring any credit rating improvements for multinational corporations. “We strongly support the efforts underway through the G20/OECD Inclusive Framework”, says the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the G7’s Communiqué, “to address the tax challenges arising from globalisation and the digitalisation of the economy and to…

Mintos introduced a new lending companies evaluation model, Mintos Risk Score. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many existing investors at Mintos, one of Europe’s leading alternative investment platform for investing in loans, decided to abruptly halt or reduce their investing activity while they waited for a clearer economic outlook, writes AS Mintos Marketplace, a…

Former colleague of the later Greensill Bank Supervisory board member has left The Federal Association of German Banks (BdB) is drawing initial conclusions from the Greensill Bank‘s 3 billion euro compensation case. As the organization confirmed on request of the Börsen-Zeitung, it will analyze the structure of its auditing association and its staff with the…

Møller Mobility thrives in symbiosis with Volkswagen. Nordic Credit Rating (NCR) assigned a ‘BBB-‘ (that reads triple B minus) long-term issuer rating to Norway-based car importer and retailer Møller Mobility Group AS (Møller Mobility). The rating agency’s outlook for this credit rating is stable. At the same time NCR assigned an ‘N-1+’ (that reads N…

The two leading rating agencies in the world are among the 500 largest companies in the USA. Anyone who thinks the rating agencies industry is a marginal issue should study the Fortune 500 list. Moody’s Corporation has been named to the Fortune 500 for the first time, reflecting the strength and momentum of its strategy…

E-Cautio, a Luxembourg-based InsurTech company and provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, announced its new partnership with SCHUMANN. In the future, E-Cautio will use the CAM Surety software from SCHUMANN, the technology provider in the areas of credit and guarantee insurance. With CAM Surety, a SaaS solution, E-Cautio enables small and medium-sized companies to remain competitive…

The rating of a local rating agency does not exempt you from the responsibility to form your own judgment

Conflicts of interest have arisen again at a local rating agency in Berlin.

A skipped coupon payment is not at all typical for a bank rated “A”.

In the city parliament of Giessen, the processing of the affair about the threatened loss of financial investments at the Greensill Bank has begun.

Ernst & Young has been the focus of criticism in the Wirecard scandal since October 2020.

Conflicts of interest wherever you look.

Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) warns consumers against “greenwashing” in the new edition of their consumer information series “Let’s talk about money”. “Greenwashing” means that a financial product is advertised as environmentally friendly, green or sustainable – i.e. colored green – even though it does not actually meet these standards. In this way, potential investors…

A Workshop Presented by the Institute of Directors Nigeria and AfriKairos

A Complicated Choice Between Conflicts of Interest. The rating of an independent credit rating agency is a valuable source of information also for the supervisory board of a company, especially for the supervisory board of a bank. The thoroughness of the analysis by credit rating analysts helps to understand the external view onto the company…

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) filed criminal charges Against The Bank’s Board Members. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Germany received monthly reports from Greensill Bank AG (Greensill Bank) about the bank’s balance sheet data from January 2019 on. This is evident from the answer given by Parliamentary State Secretary Sarah Ryglewski on…

Both born in the 1970s, a banker and an credit rating entrepreneur have a shared expensive passion.

STAKEHOLDERS’ WORKSHOP ON OPERATIONALIZING SUSTAINABILITY & CIRCULAR ECONOMY: MEASURING, MONITORING, REPORTING, IMPACT INVESTING, ESG RATINGS. A sustainability report provides information on an organization’s health, including economic, environmental, and social performance against set guidelines or an established framework. Over the past few decades, business performance is increasingly being approached from a multi-dimensional perspective. This is because…

In DEFAMA’s way, customers can quickly and conveniently charge their vehicle while shopping. Together with DEFAMA Deutsche Fachmarkt AG, the energy company EnBW is further expanding the fast charging infrastructure in Germany. The partners aim at letting this happen where customers need it most in everyday life: at retail locations and specialist market centers. EnBW…

Inconspicuous elimination of a Scope Advisory Board Member

An automated safety net for municipal investments has not existed since 2017. If municipalities do not want to set up extensive bond research departments themselves, in which financial analysts examine thousands of qualitative data and annual financial statements from issuers of financial products, the municipalities depend on the independent judgments of reliable credit rating agencies…

The scandal with the Greensill Bank brings back earlier scandals by the same rating agency to mind. How close can relationships be without being a problem for the rating and for the rating agency? What degree of kinship could influence the independence of judgment? The story of the fund initiator Interlife Management GmbH seems like…

The “Scope Group” is a bunch of constant changes under company law. As a result of the Scope Ratings GmbH billion Euro scandal about Greensill Bank in Bermen, which was rated as “investment grade” for the first time in 2019 and is now insolvent, the precise activities of this local rating agency in Berlin have…

Rating technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of rating services or in the accomplishment of rating objectives. Rating technology comprises the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, and can be embedded in computers to allow for operation without detailed knowledge of their workings, for example in…

Whistleblowers and witnesses could be identified in the following positions:

The multi-layered shareholder structure allows for an ingenious business model.

ESMA sometimes turns a blind eye: ignored calls for help.

In a week, the search queries for the Scope scandal have increased significantly.

Beware of the deceptive spiral of success of a new Ponzi scheme.

The text of publications must meet strict requirements. The European Securities and Markets Authority considers that a credit rating or rating outlook should be accompanied by a press release or report. The press release or report should explain the key elements underlying the credit rating or rating outlook. At least the following elements should be…

Face masks change the appearance of people, but also of companies. The corona pandemic made many managers really familiar with video conferencing technologies. But it is still unusual when a member of the board of directors of a stock corporation gives its long-awaited lecture in front of around 70 participants from his moving car. He…

More details are becoming known about the recent bank and corporate failures in Germany.

In the book with the rather harmless title „Social Credit Rating“, Springer Verlag, Hrsg. Oliver Everling, all financial, societal and political issues of today can be found. Since 2014, the KP (communist party) of PRC (China), is developing a so called, Social Credit System (SCS). The official goal is to include social (good) behavior in…

France and Germany are still a long way from having an efficient social credit system. One of the many prerequisites for a functioning social credit system is the abolition of cash, because only electronic money would allow the state to exercise complete control over all transactions of the citizens. But this control is in turn…

Masks are also an issue for psychologists. Who would have thought in 2019 that face masks could one day become an issue for risk managers? The far-reaching consequences give reason to be precisely informed about the use of face masks. The protective effect of the FFP2 mask is only guaranteed if it is worn continuously…