Public Finance Automated Scoring Tool (PFAST)

The Public Finance Automated Scoring (PFAST) dataset provides timely financial, economic and environmental information to help you streamline your credit scoring process. By providing both overall credit scores and specific credit risk indicators, you have access to a layered approach to help understand your overall credit risk and help clarify which risk factors are driving credit quality. More specifically, the PFAST dataset provides a granular, transparent, and consistent framework for the measurement and assessment of credit risk, getting immediate understanding of the changes in the credit quality of your municipal exposures as new financial results are released. The credit models (scorecards) deliver probability of default (PD) credit scores that are broadly aligned with S&P Global Ratings criteria. PFAST has more than 30,000 municipal rated and unrated entities and coverage of the major public finance segments including: 
  • U.S. Local and Regional Governments
  • Water and Sewer Utilities
  • Not-For Profit Healthcare
  • Not-For-Profit Higher Education
  • Transportation Infrastructure
PFAST automates your credit scoring process with access to financial, economic and environmental data from 2016 until today, and allows scoring thousands of entities in minutes by simply inputting an identifier. PFAST data gets updated monthly, ensuring you get access to the latest financial reports and economic information available on the market. 

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  • Primary Entity TypeOther
  • Coverage Count30000
  • Geographic CoverageUnited States and Canada
  • History Initiated2016
  • Earliest Significant Coverage2016
  • Point In TimeYes
  • Point In Time DetailsHistorical financial, economic, environmental and social data back to 2016. Credit Scores can be derived from 2016 to present.
  • Data SourceFinancial Data - Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA). Economic Data - United States Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Credit Scores - Credit Assessment Scorecard Public Finance Automated Scoring Tool.
  • Field Count100s
  • Delivery ChannelAPI
  • Delivery PlatformAPI
  • Reporting FrequencyMonthly
  • Dataset LatencyAd Hoc
  • Dataset Size (GB)0

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