GRETA Associati (Venice, Italy), Intesa Sanpaolo (Milan, Italy), Banca d'Italia (Venice, Italy), Cerved Group (Milan, Italy), Finanziaria Internazionale (Conegliano, Italy), Financial Innovations (Milan, Italy) and MondoHedge (Milan, Italy) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 30 – October 1, 2010. The objective of the Conference is to bring together academics, practitioners and PhD students working in the area of credit risk modeling. The conference will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research at the forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and implications of recent events in financial markets and may, in turn, suggest fruitful directions for future research. The Conference, organised under the auspices of the Department of Economics of the University Ca'Foscari of Venice, ABI - Italian Banking Association, European Investment Bank and Assogestioni (Rome, Italy) , is the ninth of a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk.