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April 2012,
International coverage expanded to include 60 International banks in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain Sweden, Switzerland and Australia. Historical data is available using our charting tool. Coverage now 1,000 US and International Banks.
December 2010,
BP's Gulf "Macondo" disaster evaluated with real-time data using the www.FirstKnow.It Excel User Model shows the model led the CDS market by about a week during the crisis. This is for this massive credit event which provoked huge trading in BP's CDS. A chart can be seen at this link.
August 2008,
International coverage expanded to include 320 International banks in Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan and India. Historical data is available using our charting tool.
December 2007,
International coverage expanded to include 1,500 Indian companies. Historical data is available using our charting tool.
February 2007,
International coverage expanded to include 700 US banks. Historical data is available using our charting tool.
August 2006,
Firstknow.It adds its PeerVue™ feature mapping asset volatility, indebtedness and rating curves to provide a unique insight into the risk profile of entire sectors nationally and internationally.
December 2005,
International coverage coverage expanded to incorporate 600 top Canadian non-bank companies - see our coverage page for further details. Full historical data is available using our charting tool.
September 2005,
Firstknow.It credit correlation data and implications for CDO valuations presented at the Reuters Brightspot conference in Singapore and the Pacific Prospect Structured Products Forum in Seoul.
May 2005,
International coverage expanded to incorporate 1,750 top Japanese non-bank
companies. Full historical data is available using our charting tool.
November 2004,
FirstKnow.It signs a collaboration agreement with Reuters Plc. The
revenue-sharing agreement will see Reuters delivering FirstKnow.It credit
analysis to its user-base through its financial information products and
marketing FirstKnow.It data through its offices world-wide. As part of the
agreement, Reuters will supply the input data required to operate and develop
the FirstKnow.It credit models.
May 2004,
In preparation for Basel 2, preparation of Gini analysis on FirstKnow.It
default probability data over 3 years. Produces Gini coefficients of 91.6% for
US historical volatility analysis service and 93.0% for US implied volatility
service, with Gini coefficients of 72.7% and 73.7% for UK and French services.
(100% being perfect prediction). Click
here for quarterly US analysis and
here for annual US, UK and French analysis.
3rd July 2003,
A further 165 US companies added to our energy coverage which now covers 250 US
companies
15th April 2003,
International coverage expanded
to incorporate 760 top French non-bank companies - see our coverage page for
further details. Full historical data is available
January 2003,
Anwaltskanzlei Strick, the leading German credit organization is serializing a
series of articles by Dr. Andrew Bagley of Baywood Investments on "Company
Share Prices As a Guide to Future Insolvency". The articles are scheduled in
the January, April and July 2003 editions of Strick's new journal Der Credit
Manager. Click here
for an English version or here
for a German version. Our German coverage is further expanded.
3rd December 2002,
Our Microsoft Excel - based user-model is now available
4th September 2002,
Our US implied volatility service is now available. We now perform US credit
evaluations on both a historic and implied asset volatility basis.
5th June 2002,
Rating grade intervals now determined by Prospective Default Frequency (PDF)
using intervals typical of those applied by the principal rating agencies.
5th March 2002,
International coverage expanded
to incorporate 700 top US non-bank companies - see our coverage page for
further details. Full historical data is available using our charting tool.
23rd November 2001,
Prospective Default Frequency (PDF) is now available, estimating the
probability of a company defaulting during the rating horizon based on stock
price data.
Our advanced charting feature is now active: you can gain additional credit
insights by plotting charts of historical put values and PDF's .
20th October 2001,
UK coverage expanded to 1,000 UK plus 340 German top non-bank companies
September
2001,
FirstKnow.It is ahead of the traditional rating agencies again with its
re-rating of Marconi. Our stock-based system downgraded Marconi into the CC
band on 15th March, almost six months before Moody's or S&P began their
downgrades. Click here to see a
graph of FirstKnow.It's rating since February.
18th August 2001,
The watchlist feature is now active. Now you can set up and revise a portfolio
of companies you want to follow and have these companies presented whenever you
visit www.FirstKnow.It.
23rd July 2001,
International coverage expanded to include 340 of the top non-bank companies
listed on the German Stockmarkets.
6th June
2001,
Dr. Andrew Bagley of Baywood Investments is to speak and give a workshop on
"Company Share Prices as a Guide to Future Insolvency" at the Institute of
Credit management Credit Management Forum on 19th September at theWoodside
Conference Centre, Kenilworth, Warwickshire UK.
31st May 2001,
The Institute of Credit Management journal, CREDITmanagement is to publish a
series of articles by Dr. Andrew Bagley of Baywood Investments on "Company
Share Prices as a Guide to Future Insolvency". The articles are scheduled in
the August and September editions. Click
here to download a copy.
1st May 2001,
The Association of Corporate Treasurers journal, the Treasurer is to publish a
series of articles by Dr. Andrew Bagley of Baywood Investments on use of
options theory in credit evaluation. The articles are to be scheduled in the
June/July&August editions. Click
here to download a zipped copy.
11th April
2001,
FirstKnow.It incorporates Equity Equivalent Position (EEP) into ratings. This
unique feature enables the risk of debt exposures to be translated into
positions in the equity of the company with equivalent risk. EEP expressed as
equity position equivalent to 1,000,000 (£/DM) debt exposure.
23rd March 2001,
FirstKnow.It coverage expanded from 550 to 850 UK listed companies including
many from AIM.
FirstKnow.It anticipate continued development of our
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