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A credit rating agency ( CRA, also called a ratings service) is a company that assigns credit ratings, which rate a debtor's ability to pay back debt by making timely principal and interest payments and the likelihood of default. An agency may rate the creditworthiness of issuers of debt obligations, of debt instruments, [ 1] and in some cases ...
This is a list of countries by credit rating, showing long-term foreign currency credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the largest three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Fitch, and Moody's.
A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting. [ 1] The credit rating represents an evaluation from a credit rating agency of the qualitative and ...
The European Securities and Markets Authority ( ESMA) is an agency of the European Union located in Paris. [ 3] ESMA replaced the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) on 1 January 2011. It is one of three European Supervisory Authorities set up within the European System of Financial Supervision, together with the European Banking ...
The Big Three credit rating agencies are S&P Global Ratings (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch Group. S&P and Moody's are based in the US, while Fitch is dual-headquartered in New York City and London, and is controlled by Hearst. As of 2013 they hold a collective global market share of "roughly 95 percent" [ 1] with Moody's and Standard & Poor's having ...
S&P Global Ratings. S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is considered the largest of the Big Three credit-rating agencies, which also include Moody ...
Morningstar DBRS is the fourth-largest credit rating agency by global market share, with between 2% and 3% of global market share. [3] The company is one of only four CRAs, including Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings, to be recognized as an external credit assessment institution by the European Central Bank (ECB). [4]
The EIB is rated triple-A, the most credit-worthy rating on the bond market, by "the Big Three" credit rating agencies: Moody's, Standard and Poor's, and Fitch. [12] [13] [14] Each member state pays capital into the EIB's reserves which is broadly in line with their share of EU gross domestic product. [15] [16] [17]