Credit rating

1. Larger organisations - borrowings - securities - bonds - credit rating agencies.

A standardised assessment, expressed alphanumerically, of the creditworthiness of an entity raising debt capital – be it a company, an investment vehicle (mutual fund), a country (sovereign) and its affiliated public agencies or regional/local authorities or a supranational institution – provided by credit rating agencies to investors and analysts.

Credit ratings also serve as a measure of the risks related to specific financial investments.

2. Smaller & medium sized organisations - credit reference agencies - trade credit rating agency.

An external assessment of general creditworthiness for a smaller organisation, provided by a credit reference agency or trade credit rating agency.

See also

• AAA
• Agency
• Bond issue
• Climate change: testing the resilience of corporates’ creditworthiness to natural catastrophes
• Corporate credit ratings: a quick guide
• County court judgment
• Credit
• Credit Benchmark
• Credit estimate
• Credit migration risk
• Credit Quality Step
• Credit rating agency
• Credit reference agency
• Credit risk
• Credit score
• Credit watch
• Creditworthiness
• Downgrade
• ESG ratings
• ESG Relevance Score
• Fitch
• ICR
• In default
• Investment grade
• Junk
• Moody's
• Mutual fund
• NAIC
• Non-investment grade
• Notch
• pi
• Pricing grid
• Prime
• Private rating
• Public information rating
• Public rating
• Rated
• SACP
• Solicited rating
• Sovereign
• Standard & Poor's
• Sub-prime lending
• Supranational
• Toxic
• Trade credit rating agency
• Unrated
• Unsolicited rating
• Upgrade

Other resource

• Measuring up, The Treasurer, Nov 2014