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The Federal Reserve recently voiced concerns about excessive corporate financial leverage - and risk management departments need to take heed.

In a pandemic period when major public company bankruptcies are hitting hard daily, reliance on payment performance and/or financial statement analysis provides a whole new slew of dangers.

Knowledge of how and when to react to a business defaulting is essential; cutting ties with a customer or supplier too soon could lead to a missed sales opportunity, while being too late can result in financial loss.

Sears Holdings Corporation has closed underperforming stores and cut costs, yet a hedge fund controlled by company CEO Eddie Lampert is now pushing for even more forceful financial restructuring to stave off bankruptcy.

The financial fallout from the most recent holiday season may not provide comfort or joy for Conn’s, Inc., a specialty retailer of furniture, mattresses, home appliances and electronics.

CreditRiskMonitor offers up five quick and important facts that you need to know about SAS AB right now to make a more solid business evaluation – or, more advisable, even an alteration of credit extension or a pivot to a peer.

Although the story can be significantly different for every single public company that finds itself faced with bankruptcy, there's one familiar trend: payment data repeatedly misses the risk.

Crowdsourcing finds that hundreds of oil & gas companies continue to deal with financial distress in spite of the stabilization of energy commodity prices.

Pier 1 Imports, Inc.'s management is hyper-focused on turning around the business, but don’t let other scoring methods (including the PAYDEX® score) mislead you.