In this study, data from two credit rating agencies are analyzed to consider how different Bank Financial Strength … Ratings and Credit Ratings from two rating agencies compare. To my knowledge, prior research has not analyzed Bank Financial … Strength Ratings from different rating agencies, nor has it compared Bank Financial Strength Ratings to general credit ratings …

de facto AML sovereign rating services. This reliance is similar to that reposed by fixed income investors in sovereign … debt ratings.In this paper we demonstrate that sovereign debt rating agencies provide highly consistent and reasonably …

investment counterparties. Traditionally, foreign exchange reserve and other asset managers relied on credit rating agencies … these objectives, the Bank of Canada first published its sovereign rating methodology in 2017. It provided a detailed … data. This publication updates the internal sovereign rating methodology to stay abreast of evolving best practices and …

controlling the effects of traditional fundamental variables such as economic strength and credit rating. We also emphasize the … attempt to infer credit rating solely from extra-financial criteria, that is the ESG indicators that are priced in by credit … rating agencies. We find that there is no overlap between the set of indicators that predict credit ratings and those that …

In this study, we compare the adjustments of credit ratings by an investor-paid credit rating agency (CRA), represented …, the downgrade and upgrade probabilities of a credit rating assigned by these two CRAs of different compensation systems … found that investor-paid ratings are more likely to be downgraded than issuer-paid ratings only in the lower rating grades …

Using an international sample of more than 65,000 rating actions by Fitch, Moody's and S&P, we analyze the effect of … the Dodd-Frank Act on credit ratings. We document that (i) rating report content changes significantly after Dodd … decrease in rating stability after Dodd-Frank. Firms, especially constrained firms, benefit and issue more debt after rating …