Kamakura Risk Information Services (KRIS)

Kamakura's industry leading research coupled with its established expertise in credit technology solutions provide clients with the data, tools and insights necessary to manage the risks inherent in their portfolios and identify market opportunities.

KRIS offers industry leading quantitative credit risk measures such as default probabilities, implied spreads and implied ratings for corporate and sovereign counterparties. These measures are updated daily and available via the Web or downloadable for use with existing systems or in conjunction with the Kamakura Risk Manager enterprise wide risk management suite.

Kamakura utilizes the KRIS default and correlation service to track a global index of more than 27,000 public companies in 30 countries to produce the company's monthly default probability reports; default predictions are based on a sophisticated combination of financial ratios, stock price history, and macro-economic factors.

KRIS is critical to risk managers, credit managers, treasurers, investors, traders and other financial decision makers in banking, insurance, investment management, corporations and governments.

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Kamakura Default Probability Models

The Kamakura Default Probability Models provide investors, investment managers, dealers, traders, lenders and auditors a simple, objective means of assessing the credit quality of credit-risky public firms. Credit quality is measured in terms of the probability of default of a credit-risky firm.

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Credit Portfolio Analysis
KRIS Credit Portfolio Analysis provides sophisticated investors an independent, state-of-the-art ability to evaluate both the market value and loss distribution of credit portfolios and tranches of portfolios, especially those of synthetic collateralized debt obligations. The Credit Portfolio Analysis is an add-on to Kamakura Risk Information Services’ KRIS-cr Version 4.1 default probabilities. read more ...


Troubled Company Index
KRIS Troubled Company Index provides estimates of the full term structure of default probabilities of an individual firm based upon current public information about the firm, its economic environment, and the current risk of the public firms in its industry. Since 2002 Kamakura has been reporting its troubled company index via media outlets immediately after the end of each month. read more ...


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