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"How the leading European rating agency distinguishes itself from the US rating agencies"

Aug 3^rd, 2020: Dennis Shen, macroeconomist and a Director in sovereign ratings, explains in his blog article how the leading European rating agency distinguishes itself from the US rating agencies...
Jul 6^th, 2020: The last AAA countries in the world - a short blog post about the "Triple-A Ivy League"... read more
Jun 26^th, 2020: Starting from today, Wikirating is including in the list of countries by credit rating also the sovereign credit ratings from Scope Ratings – beside S&P, Moody’s and Fitch. This is a contribution to offer the possibility to compare at a glance the credit ratings from one of the most relevant pure European credit rating agencies with the American “Big Three”... read more
Jun 20^th, 2020: 10 years ago Dorian registered the domain ‘wikirating.org’ to build an open and transparent alternative solution to the “Big Three”, the dominant credit rating agencies.... read more
Jun 14^th, 2020: "The most complete List of Credit Rating Agencies" - We are regularly checking and updating the list of known credit rating agencies (CRAs) (and organizations) in the world... read more
May 6^th, 2020: Wikirating has updated the list of countries by credit rating – 18 countries have updated values.
Jan 28^th, 2020: Bill Harrington former Moody’s SVP and Wikirating Experts Board Member, urges everyone to hound credit rating agencies to embed each credit rating with an ESG upgrade, downgrade or wash. Read his op-ed "Investors who want to fast-track sustainable fixed-income investments should inundate credit rating agencies with methodology critiques" on Responsible Investor.
Jan 1^st, 2020: Wikirating has evaluated with the SWI (Sovereign Wikirating Index) the credit ratings of 181 sovereign countries – more than any common credit rating agency, read our blog article for the detailed results.