Greek data and information provider Hellastat and Standard & Poors Risk Solutions have announced a new alliance to combine Standard & Poors probabilities of default (PD) and Hellastat data and information in a new service for the domestic Greek market.
Standard & Poors already uses Hellastat financial statement data, along with default information from 3 leading Greek banks, to produce 1 through 5 year PDs on over 35,000 Greek SMEs. This is provided via Standard & Poors web-based Credit Risk Tracker, Greece. The product also includes scoring models on 5 different sectors of the Greek market, covering over 50 industries.
Now, for those looking for one-off reports combining credit, business and financial information, Hellastat will combine this with its rich business and financial information data set in its Credit Reports Service.
“We are delighted to see our relationship with Hellastat expand in this way,” says Stuart Shipperlee, head of PD scoring products at Standard & Poors Risk Solutions. “We have long felt our PD scores could be vital information for the trade credit and smaller financial institution markets that Hellastats new product will serve.”
“By introducing this service we are making the quality of credit information Standard & Poors provides to large banks and the international capital markets available to all organisations in Greece,” says Panos Michalopoulos, founding Partner at Hellastat.
The importance of managing SME credit risk with sector specific models is highlighted by the very different results in different Greek market sectors.
“Our research suggests that the most vulnerable part of the Greek economy to default is Consumer Products,” says Shipperlee. “With even the best firms in the bottom quartile of the sector showing a one year default probability of 5.3%. Whereas the trade sector bottom quartile starts with PDs of 2.4%, over 2 times less risky. Even construction, where the bottom quartile of firms starts with PDs of 4.9%, appears less risky than Consumer Products.
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