Community banks were drowning in reports but starving for answers. A former bank CFO built KlariVis to clean the mess, put daily decisions on one screen, and give smaller institutions a fighting chance.
Founders Steve Cotton and Curry Pelot already sold one bank-analytics company to Fiserv. The second time around they decided to index every financial institution in the country - and the software each one quietly runs.
Credit Benchmark is a London- and New York-based financial data analytics company that turns the internal credit risk views of 40+ of the world's largest banks into anonymized, aggregated Credit Consensus Ratings. By pooling the assessments of roughly 20,000 credit analysts, it produces obligor-level ratings and analytics on 110,000+ public and private entities across 160 countries - covering many companies, funds and sovereigns that traditional agencies never rate - and delivers them through a web app, Excel add-in, API and partners such as Bloomberg and Snowflake.