While it does not appear that any insurance company, or any financial firm, can reasonably claim to satisfy all of the elements of “best practice” above, some insurers are reasonably close to this standard. However, many—if not most—are not. Often, firms report that people or budget issues prohibit analysis that may be more intricate. Somewhat surprisingly, the most common response in this regard is that modeling software does not exist. Some companies may be unaware that the software does exist. A likely interpretation is that the models are not available within the company. Other interpretations of this response are that credit risk has not been a high priority or that the company considers a factor-based approach sufficient, and therefore not invested the resources on building/acquiring credit modeling software. Still, we see firms that are migrating to new software products and risk analysis firms over the next two years to accomplish these goals. The industry could benefit from increased communication amongst participants with respect to their preferred credit analysis software or consultants.