Ann Rutledge

Yields on $7.41 billion of Kenya’s Eurobonds on London and Irish exchanges immediately dropped by about 0.6% post-announcement. The market believed in Kenya's upgrade.

Fortuna Bank, less than a year old, is set up to prosper from changing demographics by understanding the needs of its target clientele and closing the women's credit gap.

What we still don't know about the rationale and impacts of privatizing Fannie and Freddie on U.S. credit markets, bank market microstructure, rates and asset values.

The impact of Moody's downgrade of U.S. Treasuries and senior-unsecured rating to Aa1 by Moody's in the context of market vulnerability and default risk.

Hasbro is coming out with a new version of Monopoly equipped with electronic banking and new game expansions that telegraph further changes in our credit market culture.

Home affordability is a growing problem, globally and in the U.S. While demand is surging and unlikely to abate soon, supply is limited, with new production hindered.

Sovereigns who borrow private capital are making a bet that the economic returns to scale will be sufficient to raise living standards and repay debts.

In 2023-24, 20% of the world's governments were downgraded, 80% in the Global South, a majority in Africa. But Africa is pushing back on the sovereign credit rating card.

Creditors everywhere rely on credit ratings to invest in bonds, by choice or regulation. A growing coalition of critics says Africa's sovereign credit ratings are biased.

Single Asset-Single Borrower securities were always a likely catalyst for another GFC, but journalists, CRAs and the market were too busy looking away. That is until now.

Can Florida’s proposed right to abortion amendment affect its credit rating? A paid lobbyist says yes-rating experts say heck no. Here are the facts: decide for yourself.

The toxin in the FDIC’s workplace culture is a deep-seated disdain for credit work. To fix the FDIC we must elevate credit again. That's Christy Goldsmith Romero's forte.

The most significant theme behind Spain's Golden Visa story is the credit-driven capital structure arbitrage that is playing out wherever private equity invests in homes.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial this week for committing or conspiring to commit wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. What about credit fraud?

Moody’s, Fitch and S&P began downgrading some U.S. banks this month, but some of the banks have adapted to the new macro-environment and are better credits than in 2021.

It aspired to be the anti-woke banking alternative for conservatives to “put their money where their values are.”

In early January 2022, around the time Twitter sold its mobile app platform MoPub for $1.05 BN in cash, Musk began his stealth acquisition of Twitter shares.

In the fine print of Chinese auto ABS prospectuses lurks another significant feature: title risk.