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1. ''Larger organisations - borrowings - securities - bonds - credit rating agencies.'' | 1. ''Larger organisations - borrowings - securities - bonds - credit rating agencies.'' | ||
A | 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.'' | 2. ''Smaller & medium sized organisations - credit reference agencies.'' | ||
An external assessment of creditworthiness provided by a credit reference agency. | An external assessment of general creditworthiness for a smaller organisation, provided by a credit reference agency. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[AAA]] | * [[AAA]] | ||
* [[Agency]] | |||
* [[Bond issue]] | * [[Bond issue]] | ||
* [[Climate change: testing the resilience of corporates’ creditworthiness to natural catastrophes]] | * [[Climate change: testing the resilience of corporates’ creditworthiness to natural catastrophes]] | ||
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* [[Junk]] | * [[Junk]] | ||
* [[Moody's]] | * [[Moody's]] | ||
* [[Mutual fund]] | |||
* [[NAIC]] | * [[NAIC]] | ||
* [[Non-investment grade]] | * [[Non-investment grade]] | ||
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* [[SACP]] | * [[SACP]] | ||
* [[Solicited rating]] | * [[Solicited rating]] | ||
* [[Sovereign]] | |||
* [[Standard & Poor's ]] | * [[Standard & Poor's ]] | ||
* [[Sub-prime lending]] | * [[Sub-prime lending]] | ||
* [[Supranational]] | |||
* [[Toxic]] | * [[Toxic]] | ||
* [[Unrated]] | * [[Unrated]] | ||
Revision as of 11:04, 16 February 2022
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.
An external assessment of general creditworthiness for a smaller organisation, provided by a credit reference 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
- CQS
- Credit
- Credit Benchmark
- Credit estimate
- Credit rating agency
- Credit reference agency
- Credit risk
- Credit score
- Credit watch
- Creditworthiness
- Downgrade
- ESG ratings
- ESG Relevance Score
- Fitch
- ICR
- 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
- Unrated
- Unsolicited rating
- Upgrade
