The year 2020 certainly was one of most unpleasant year for humanity. For us it was even more challenging to continue our work for transparent… Read More »Outlook 2021 – Wikirating updates 186 Country Ratings.
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
The main goal of the “Sovereign Wikirating Index” (SWI) [1] is to have a transparent, reasonable and comprehensive measure of the creditworthiness of a sovereign… Read More »Wikirating updates 181 Sovereign Credit Ratings
This blog article summarizes a recent article published in the European Business Law Review. Reference: Norbert J. Gaillard, “Credible Sovereign Ratings: Beyond Statistics and Regulations”,… Read More »Credible Sovereign Ratings: Beyond Statistics and Regulations
No government regulation will ever apply to any rating agency that the government regulates, according to the Financial Choice Act. This bill would eliminate accountability… Read More »Republicans Immunize Rating Agencies from Accountability in Financial Choice Act
This blog article summarizes a recent article published in Banking and Financial Services Policy Report.Reference: Norbert J. Gaillard, “Coping with Reliance on Credit Ratings”, Banking… Read More »Coping with Reliance on Credit Ratings