Sovereign Credit Insights EMEA Edition
September Spotlight: An update on Russia, Zambia and Kenya
- Update on Russia six months into its invasion of Ukraine
- Update on Zambia (Ca stable) following IMF board approval of financial support programme
- Update on Kenya (B2 negative) following the contested presidential election outcome
Update on Russia six months into its invasion of Ukraine
How is the economy performing? How effective has the policy response been to mitigate the impact of sanctions?
Update on Zambia (Ca stable) following IMF board approval of financial support programme
To what extent will the Extended Credit Facility improve the government’s liquidity profile, support the reform agenda, and attenuate exposure to social risks?
Update on Kenya (B2 negative) following the contested presidential election outcome
What is the risk of policy paralysis, social unrest or deterred investment amid protracted uncertainty regarding the election outcome?
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SpeakersMatt Robinson Associate Managing Director - Sovereign Risk Group Moody's Ratings
Lenaic Couderc Analyst, Sub-Sovereign Moody's Ratings
John Walsh Analyst, Sovereign Risk Group Moody's Ratings
Alexis Corn Associate Analyst, Sovereign Risk Group Moody's Investors ServiceAC
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Matt Robinson manages the Sovereign Risk Group’s Middle East and Africa team producing ratings and research regarding sovereign and supranational creditworthiness in Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East/North Africa. He is responsible for managing staff located in London, Frankfurt, Dubai and New York.
Matt joined Moody’s in 2007 after a decade of macroeconomic and public policy experience. Prior to managing the Middle East and Africa sovereign ratings team, Matt was the Director of Sovereign Research, responsible for coordinating and contributing to the research produced by Moody’s global team of sovereign risk analysts. Matt previously managed the affairs of the Moody’s Economy.com Sydney office, providing independent economic analysis, data and forecasting and credit risk services to Moody’s Analytics’ worldwide client base. Before joining Moody’s, Matt worked as an economist and policy adviser in a number of public and private sector organisations, including Commonwealth Treasury and the Economic Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Australia.
Matt received his bachelor of economics from the University of Newcastle(Australia) and his graduate degree from the Australian National University.
Lenaic Couderc is a lead analyst in the Sub-Sovereign Group, responsible for a portfolio of housing associations and local authorities in the UK. Lenaic joined Moody’s in 2019 as a Ratings Associate in the Sovereign Risk Group, covering a variety of advanced and emerging market European sovereigns.
Lenaic holds a degree in Economics from the Ecole Normale Superieure and a MSc in Financial Economics from the Sorbonne University.
John is lead analyst on a portfolio of sovereigns and development banks in sub-Saharan Africa based out of London.
John joined Moody’s in 2022 after nearly a decade of experience in policy development, debt management, credit analysis, and monetary policy and trading in the Canadian public service and central bank. John holds a Masters in Arts (Economics) from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada and an ungraduated degree in economics and philosophy from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.