Allyn Arden

Experience

1. Director

   S&P Global

   Apr 2005 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Corporate Ratings Analyst, Telecommunicatons and Cable• Manage a group of junior analysts with primary responsibility for over 45 high yield and investment grade telecom and cable credits.• Senior credit analyst with primary coverage of the most complex investment grade and high yield telecommunications and cable companies, including AT & T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US, CenturyLink, and Frontier.• Perform fundamental credit analysis (i.e. financial forecasting and loss given default modeling) and present recommendations to rating committees. Identify key sector and industry trends, as well as maintain ongoing interaction with investors and issuers.• Contributed to the development of the criteria for determining issue-level ratings for speculative-grade unsecured debt.• Authored numerous industry articles including a global series of commentaries on the credit implications of 5G wireless technology, key credit risks for US tower operators, and a credit FAQ on US wireline companies.• Authored various cross sector articles, including The Credit Overhang: 101 Lost \'A\'s-A Dozen Years of Decline For U.S. Industrial Ratings (2012) and Reshuffling The Debt: The Credit Implications Of The New Wave Of LBOs (2011). • Invited speaker at industry conferences and coordinator for all buy-side investor outreach for the telecom team. • Provide training courses on S&P methodology and credit analysis to new hires. • Active member of S&P hybrid council, which helps determine equity credit ascribed to hybrid instruments by corporate issuers

Education

• Trinity College-Hartford

  B.A., Economics

  1988 — 1992

• New York University

  M.A., Latin Civilization/ Spanish

  1993 — 1994