Our planet is on fire – the environmental protection and the sustainable usage of our global resources are one of the most urgent topics humanity… Read More »Every Country deserves an unbiased Sustainable Credit Rating
Scope seeks to establish itself as the Europe an alternative to the traditional US agencies in the highly concentrated credit ratings industry. On the sovereign… Read More »How the leading European rating agency distinguishes itself from the US rating agencies
A couple of years ago, the exclusive club of countries which were rated with AAA (long-term, foreign currency) by all (major) credit rating agencies, was… Read More »The last AAA Countries
Starting from June 26th, 2020, Wikirating is including in the list of countries by credit rating also the sovereign credit ratings from Scope Ratings –… Read More »List of Countries by Credit Rating – Now a pure European Rating Agency is included
On June 20th 2010 I registered the domain ‘wikirating.org’ to build an open and transparent alternative solution to the “Big Three”, the dominant credit rating… Read More »10 Years ago
We are regularly checking and updating the list of known credit rating agencies (CRAs) (and organizations) in the world – this update now includes 120… Read More »The most complete List of Credit Rating Agencies
This blog article summarizes Chapter 4 of The Failure of Financial Regulation by A. Hira, N. J. Gaillard and T. H. Cohn (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan,… Read More »How and Why Moral Hazard Has Distorted Financial Regulation
For the past half-century, the Chicago School has had a profound impact on the development and subsequent stagnation of academic finance. That is the subject… Read More »Did Academic Finance Play a Role in the Global Financial Crisis?
Given the economic tumult in China, we thought it would be worthwhile to get some perspective from that nation’s largest independent credit rating agency –… Read More »A Critical Review of Dagong’s Rating Methodology
Last week Roland Berger announced that he did not received the needed funds to found an European rating agency (see http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-15/roland-berger-is-short-on-ratings-agency-startup-cash-ftd-says.html). Did you wondered why?… Read More »Why an European Agency cannot be founded