Credit rating
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1. Larger organisations - borrowings - securities - bonds - credit rating agencies.
A credit rating is an external assessment of creditworthiness.
Although the general term can apply to individuals and smaller businesses, in treasury it is usually used with reference to public debt issued by larger corporations or public bodies.
So for example a bond issue by a large corporation, or by a government, would usually be given a credit rating by one or more credit rating agencies or other bodies.
2. Smaller & medium sized organisations - credit reference agencies.
An external assessment of creditworthiness provided by a credit reference agency.
See also
- AAA
- 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 score
- Credit watch
- Creditworthiness
- Downgrade
- ESG ratings
- ESG Relevance Score
- Fitch
- ICR
- Investment grade
- Junk
- Moody's
- NAIC
- Non-investment grade
- Notch
- pi
- Pricing grid
- Prime
- Private rating
- Public information rating
- Public rating
- Rated
- SACP
- Solicited rating
- Standard & Poor's
- Sub-prime lending
- Toxic
- Unrated
- Unsolicited rating
- Upgrade
