Spring 2027

Introduction to Credit Analysis & Trading

Introduction to Credit Analysis & Trading provides a thorough grounding in credit instruments, covering loans, bonds, credit default swaps, and trading strategies.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.72 GPA, 82.8% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.64 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=45 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Forecast a company's financial capital structure, liquidity and credit metrics, which will indicate whether the credit profile will improve or deteriorate.

  • Identify the qualitative and quantitative factors that go into evaluating a company’s current and future credit profile and assigning credit ratings.

  • Develop a Bloomberg Launchpad to monitor news and markets and use Bloomberg to evaluate relative value of bonds, loans and credit default swaps.

  • Explain the similarities and differences in evaluating industrials, financial institutions, municipals and developed and emerging market sovereign debt.

  • Read and evaluate corporate credit documentation including bank credit agreements and bond prospectuses.

  • Describe the hierarchy of decisions and different strategies for managing fixed income portfolios and how to evaluate performance vs a benchmark.

  • Prepare comparable (comps) sheet analysis for financial and sovereign issuers and identify trading opportunities.

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Prerequisites

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(FINANCE 305, 325, and ECON/​FINANCE 320) or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

FINANCE 640

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.72 GPA, 82.8% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.64 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=45 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Loans, bonds, credit default swaps, and trading strategies
  • Evaluating industrials, financial institutions, municipals, and sovereign debt
  • Fixed income portfolio management and performance evaluation

Skills

  • Use Bloomberg to evaluate relative value of bonds, loans, and credit default swaps
  • Manage fixed income portfolios and evaluate performance against benchmarks
  • Evaluate corporate credit documentation such as bank credit agreements and bond prospectuses
  • Evaluate credit profiles and assign credit ratings using qualitative and quantitative factors

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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