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Credit rating is a highly concentrated industry, with the "Big Three" credit rating agencies controlling approximately 95% of the ratings business. [3] Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's (S&P) together control 80% of the global market, and Fitch Ratings controls a further 15%.
A sovereign credit rating is the credit rating of a sovereign entity, such as a national government. The sovereign credit rating indicates the risk level of the investing environment of a country and is used by investors when looking to invest in particular jurisdictions, and also takes into account political risk.
The following is a list of the world's largest publicly traded financial services companies, ordered by annual sales for the latest Fiscal Year in millions of U.S. dollars according to the Fortune Global 500. (Currently the top 50 public companies are included, while privately held companies are not included).
China Chengxin Credit Rating Group; Comisión Clasificadora de Riesgo; Compagnie Française d'Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur; Compuscan; Credit Information Corporation; Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Limited; Credit Rating Information and Services Limited
In the wake of the financial crisis, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report [6] called out the "failures" of the Big Three rating agencies as "essential cogs in the wheel of financial destruction". According to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, [7] The three credit rating agencies were key enablers of the financial meltdown.
Moody's Ratings, previously known as Moody's Investors Service and often referred to as Moody's, is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, representing the company's traditional line of business and its historical name. Moody's Ratings provides international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government ...
The credit rating is a financial indicator to potential investors of debt securities such as bonds.These are assigned by credit rating agencies such as Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch, which publish code designations (such as AAA, B, CC) to express their assessment of the risk quality of a bond.
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.