Infospectrum Insights

Following the success of Infospectrum’s Counterparty Credit Risk Forum in Singapore earlier this year, our London Forum provided attendees with unique insights into the shipping industry and the latest developments shaping it.

Managing the counterparty vetting, onboarding, and risk assessment process presents a challenge for many businesses. Read on to discover how Infospectrum is innovating new solutions within this space.

Infospectrum’s global team of experts is as dedicated as it is diverse. Read on to get to know Matthew Pickin, Senior Analyst at Infospectrum’s Oxford office, on how he came to be in the shipping industry and what he gets up to for work and play.

The adoption of the IBC (Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code) by the Indian government in 2016 was one of the state’s most ambitious moves to ease doing business with Indian companies. However, two years after the adoption of the code, and despite amendments to the core NCLT’s Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process, the results are not as fruitful as expected.

Infospectrum has expertise across the globe, thanks to its enthusiastic and dedicated team. This month, we spoke with Ven Loh in Singapore, who shares how he came to join the shipping industry and his varied role at Infospectrum over the 10 years he has been part of our company.

Trust is the intangible glue that binds companies and their customers. It’s the unwritten contract that ensures consumers keep engaging with their suppliers. Without trust, businesses cannot hope to survive.

This article is the second installment in a two-part series. The first explores sanctions and tariffs and how the global politico-economic climate impacts counterparty risk assessment. Read the first installment here.

Sometimes when conducting counterparty risk analysis, it is very easy to overly focus on the micro, the background of the principals, their track record of performance, for example, rather than the global politico-economic situation in which the target operates.

The global Infospectrum team is made up of a diverse range of experts. One of those experts, Rebecca Christiansen, was kind enough to answer our questions and share insights into her varied background and what it’s like working at Infospectrum.

In a global economy that’s being transformed by data, it’s not the players with the most intel that will prosper most but those who best know what to do with it. As a case in point, shipping has long generated an incredible trove of data vital to the global trade of goods. But it’s lacked the expertise in making sense of that knowledge.