Fitch expects Japan’s major domestic insurers to maintain sufficiently strong economic solvency ratios (ESRs) under J-ICS, the new economic value-based capital regime implemented at end-March 2026.

There’s a lot going on! Ben McCarthy and Tracy Wan unpack what’s driving structured finance in APAC, from geopolitics and oil prices to credit performance, fraud risks, and digital infrastructure.

Justin Patrie, Alen Lin and Alex Bumazhny examine recent developments around AI’s credit implications, including whether data center and compute capex is supported by future monetization and where overinvestment and disruption risks may emerge.

This video outlines Fitch’s charter school rating criteria, including rating drivers, weighted sub-factors, governance, leverage, and bondholder protections—improving transparency and comparability across the charter school sector.

A prolonged Middle East conflict could create new credit challenges for developed market (DM) sovereigns in Europe and Asia, primarily through higher energy and borrowing costs, rising inflation and weaker economic growth.

A prolonged Iran conflict would affect corporates through higher hydrocarbon prices and supply-chain disruption, as well as weaker demand due to falling consumer confidence and higher interest rates, but a few sectors are set to benefit.

The IFS ratings of the Fitch-rated major Asia-Pacific (APAC) life insurers’ (ex. Japan) are underpinned by capital strength and company profile.

This episode explores China’s economic linkages with Latin America (LatAm), with Fitch Ratings’ Todd Martinez and Janice Chong, and the implications of the resurgence of the US “Monroe Doctrine” on these economic ties and for Chinese corporates.

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