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🚨 How good are rating agency ratings at predicting defaults? And are some agencies' ratings 'easier' than others?

Here are all the charts.

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Rating the rating data of credit raters
Deep-diving into Form NRSRO Exhibit 1 filings
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November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Who watches the credit watchmen? @tobyn.bsky.social does.

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Rating the rating data of credit raters
Deep-diving into Form NRSRO Exhibit 1 filings
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Um ...
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Remember when internet companies were capital light? Lol. Lmao, even.

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‘Best way to describe the market is bonkers’
[FREE TO READ] The AI hyperscaler capex plans keep on growing and growing
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November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Everything's collateral if you're brave enough.

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Utah’s First Brands whale even leased the office furniture
A non-bank lender with the motto ‘been there, leased that’ finds out
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November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Everything's collateral if you're brave enough.

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Utah’s First Brands whale even leased the office furniture
A non-bank lender with the motto ‘been there, leased that’ finds out
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November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
M&A analysis, Buzzfeed style

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2,506 takeover candidates: ranked!
[FREE TO READ] Sort of, but not really
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November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The private credit equivalent of autopilot disengaging one second before the crash.

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Blackstone’s alternative narratives
[FREE TO READ] Three private credit bosses walk into a committee room…
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November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hey New York, your month just keeps getting better:

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We’re doing a pub quiz, in New York City, on 11 November. Get your tickets NOW!
Back in quizness
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November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Palantir is nuts. When’s the crash?
An AI darling faces its dusky interregnum
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November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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We made @dsquareddigest.bsky.social read all the “living wills” of US banks so you don’t have to. on.ft.com/47Mi48W
Living wills and the ‘Continuum of Crisis’
How willing are big banks to look into the abyss?
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November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
With great power comes no responsibility.

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How many ‘bragawatts’ have the hyperscalers announced so far?
A: Forty-six DeLorean time jumps
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November 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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My take on the largest London IPO since 2021 — the flotation of Princes Group. Free to read at @alphaville.ft.com : www.ft.com/content/4141...
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Puesta D-Sol

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Is David Solomon’s DJ-ing career getting scratched out?
[FREE TO READ] Dark night of D-Sol
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November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Systematic credit is still small, but hot
Checking in on the latest quant hype
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November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Chart Quiz results - now with added charts

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And the FTAV chart quiz winner is . . .
[FREE TO READ] Getting shirty
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November 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It's all a bit fishy.

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London needs new listings, but Princes’ float just kicks the can
[FREE TO READ] A kabuki IPO is nothing to celebrate
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November 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Parsing the underlying meaning of Onset Finl's viral rap.

This is @alphaville.ft.com at its best.

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Onset Financial: the rap sheet
Sound of da pro lease
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October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Shares in chicken-frying robot maker rise after three men were seen eating chicken. This is what markets news is now.

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The AI bubble has reached its ‘fried chicken’ phase
This is fine
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October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Big shed, funky bond.

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A closer look at the record-smashing ‘Hyperion’ corporate bond sale
[FREE TO READ] Buckle up, fixed income nerds
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October 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM