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Summary
Geopolitical developments in the Middle East continue to shape risk dynamics across energy markets, trade flows, and credit channels. Recent S&P Global Ratings analysis highlights how disruptions to shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, movements in Brent crude and LNG prices, and regional military activity can influence credit conditions across sectors critical to the GCC economy.
In this session, S&P Global Ratings will provide an overview of the key geopolitical and macro credit implications for the region, focusing on how evolving energy market dynamics, trade disruptions, and regional security risks are affecting credit conditions across GCC-relevant sectors. This will be followed by a perspective from S&P Global Market Intelligence on how banks can operationalize these insights to strengthen risk visibility and enhance credit decision-making.
S&P Global Market Intelligence will demonstrate how GCC banks can leverage RatingsDirect®—the leading platform for accessing S&P Global Ratings’ published credit research and ratings—together with CreditCompanion™, an AI-powered assistant that helps users rapidly uncover, analyze, and summarize complex credit information. Powered by advanced natural language processing and large language models, CreditCompanion enables intuitive queries, highlights key rating drivers, supports comparative credit analysis, and delivers synthesized summaries with direct links to original source documents.
Speakers
S&P Global Ratings
Mohamed Damak
Sector Lead Financial Institutions & Global Head of Islamic Finance
Mohamed Damak is a Senior Director within the Financial Services at S&P Global Ratings. He covers financial institutions in the Middle East and Africa region. Mohamed is also the Global Head of Islamic Finance within S&P Global Ratings, leading a global team of Islamic Finance analysts.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Shreya Mishra
Credit Solutions, Go-To-Market Strategy & Market Development EMEA
Shreya helps shape the go-to-market strategy for RatingsDirect and AI-powered solutions, including CreditCompanion and Credit Memo Builder, across EMEA. She partners with clients to unlock greater value from ratings intelligence and AI-driven workflows, enabling more informed and efficient credit risk decision-making.
Since joining S&P Global in 2023, Shreya has led solution-focused engagements with corporate, buy-side, and sell-side clients across the region, providing subject matter expertise and strategic guidance on modernizing credit risk workflows.
Shreya brings a distinctly international perspective, with a career spanning financial journalism and AI. She began her career at Bloomberg Quint, where she covered macroeconomics, financial markets, and political developments. She later joined London-based AI startup Echobox, where she partnered with leading news organizations across Europe and APAC to drive AI adoption and help publishers expand the reach and impact of their content. This unique blend of financial markets expertise and AI experience enables her to provide valuable insights into the evolving role of generative AI in credit risk and investment workflows.
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