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•Model credit risk in an opaque environment under perceived reporting bias.•Bias is modelled with a skew normal distribution.•In the presence of upward bias, the probability of default increases non-linearly with the amount of reporting noise.•In the presence of upward bias there is a positive uncertainty premium over the credit term structure.