In this original study, SwissThink shows that a one rating notch difference can have a dramatic impact on the cost of funding, and hence on a firm’s profits. SwissThink Rating Advisory Services will ensure that your firm, or the transaction you are sponsoring obtains the best possible credit rating.

Nikola Swann, Global Head of MDBs and Sovereigns for SwissThink, shares his views after attending the 2023 World Bank and IMF annual meeting in Marrakech

Nikola Swann, SwissThink’s Global Head of MDBs and Sovereigns was invited to speak on a panel at the June 2023 Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact. In this video, Nikola discusses the key takeaways from the summit and his recommendations to further enhance the effectiveness of MDBs to achieve the Summit’s objectives.

In Part 3 — U.S. Hospitals Emerging Into a Changed World Liz discusses how the pandemic has crystallized three key trends: staffing issues, the emergence of telehealth and “hospital at home”, and patients’ expectations for improved digital experience and transparency.

In Part 2 — Do U.S. Hospitals Have a Case of Long-Haul COVID? we’ll discuss why many hospitals are losing money despite being full to the brim, why credit ratings are under stress, and how hospitals have adapted operations as the pandemic progressed.

Liz Sweeney, SwissThink's Senior US Public Finance Consultant, introduces her three part series on US Hospitals, Capital Markets and Covid. In the series, Liz discusses the credit impact of government support and also patients' changing expectations regarding their healthcare providers.

Lotfi Elbarhdadi discusses SwissThink’s engagement over the past year with a leading European life insurer to validate the regulatory treatment of infrastructure investment under the Solvency 2 internal model. Steve and Lotfi show how this treatment, whether taken under the standard formula or internal model approach, is more favorable than the US regulatory treatment.

Fix it: 5 ways to grown infrastructure investment by U.S. life insurers is a five part series from Steve Dreyer, SwissThink Senior Insurance and Infrastructure Consultant. In Part 5, Steve discusses the high capital charges for US life insurers on unrated infrastructure bonds and punitive reporting requirements. He proposes that the main regulatory bodies and rating agencies find ways to alleviate that burden to spur infrastructure investment by US life insurers.

Fix it: 5 ways to grown infrastructure investment by U.S. life insurers is a five part series from Steve Dreyer, SwissThink Senior Insurance and Infrastructure Consultant. In Part 4, In Part 4, Steve promotes Public-Private-Partnerships (P3) as a way to better align interests between long term Government policy objectives and bondholder investment time horizon.

Fix it: 5 ways to grown infrastructure investment by U.S. life insurers is a five part series from Steve Dreyer, SwissThink Senior Insurance and Infrastructure Consultant. In Part 3 Steve discusses early-stage project risks and how to mitigate them to attract long term investors.

Fix it: 5 ways to grown infrastructure investment by U.S. life insurers is a five part series from Steve Dreyer, SwissThink Senior Insurance and Infrastructure Consultant. In Part 2, Steve shows that despite the lower default risk and higher recoveries of infrastructure, investment by insurers remains muted because of the perceived investment risks. Steve recommends solutions to increase the transparency of this essential asset class.

In Part 1 of this five part series, Steve Dreyer, SwissThink Senior Consultant for Insurance and Infrastructure discusses what essential infrastructure, who should define at the State level in the U.S., and how projects should be tracked nationally to promote investment.

An interview with Steve Dreyer, Senior Infrastructure and Insurance Consultant for SwissThink, on how U.S. insurers should be build greater investment in long term infrastructure

Welcome to Liz Sweeney, who is joining SwissThink as Senior Consultant, US Public Finance

Welcome to Lidia Polakovic, joining SwissThink as Senior Consultant, Infrastructure and Project Finance

In this Insight, SwissThink President Blaise Ganguin discusses the importance of differentiating short term liquidity issues from longer term solvency problems for corporates.

SwissThink Senior Consultants successfully complete 9 month Solvency 2 assignment with a Top European Insurer. From left to right: Nicole Martin, Suzanne Smith (Project Lead), Blaise Ganguin (Lotfi Elbahrdadi missing from picture)

With fewer property and casualty claims due to lower economic activity, will French insurers record higher gains? asks Lotfi Elbarhdadi, SwissThink Senior Insurance Consultant and Advindo President, and colleague Ludovic Antony.