The COVID-19 pandemic swiftly delivered hundreds of bankruptcy filings in 2020. Here in 2022, geopolitical tensions, supply chain challenges, and tightening credit conditions could lead to a similar devastating outcome.

Avoid the crash: not having a daily risk download like what we provide subscribers with our proprietary FRISK® score, when world events like armed conflict are changing industry every day, is like flying a plane without instruments through a hurricane.

With inflation at a 40-year high and interest rate hikes beginning to be implemented, more and more overleveraged companies with sinking FRISK® scores are in greater danger of bankruptcy in 2022.

In 2021, total liabilities from public company bankruptcies approached $77 billion, delivering formidable material losses to creditors and major disruptions to global supply chains.

As the Bank of England has already raised interest rates in the U.K., the U.S. Federal Reserve is telegraphing at least three interest rate hikes in 2022. With interest rates on the rise, many companies will go from muddling through to facing extreme financial duress.

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Public company bankruptcies soared in 2020, and filings continue to roll in as fallout from COVID-19. Here are five of the most notable Chapter 11 cases we've seen so far in 2021, and another five companies we feel are in big-time danger.

Central banks worldwide are suppressing borrowing rates to accommodate credit markets, trying to alleviate financial pressures on corporations. This is creating a surge of "zombie companies," or firms that are staying alive in spite of their inability to service interest expenses.

A supplier network fraying at the edges can eventually break down into a full-blown disruptive crisis. With global debt soaring, daily bankruptcy risk evaluation is a must.